By David R. Burda – It’s that time of year again when I try to educate myself on drugs, drug prices and drug spending. I limit my classes to one day a year lest I get sucked down the rabbit hole of covering big pharma and turn into a one-trick healthcare business journalist pony, murmuring about million-dollar pills in my sleep.
By David Burda – One of the hot healthcare stories recently was the release of the Commonwealth Fund’s first annual Health Care Affordability Survey. The survey results, which I’ll go into in a moment, confirmed what we know already, and that’s rising prices for medical care are forcing consumers into unaffordable medical debt…
By David Burda – Sometimes little studies say a lot about how the healthcare system works in the U.S. and why we need a customer revolution in healthcare. A great example is a recent two-page research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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By David Burda – Well, maybe people are little more informed about their health benefits and a little more health literate than I thought. Maybe. Sewing that seed of doubt in my mind is the new 2021 Workplace Wellness Survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald Research.
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