Congress gave Medicare historic new powers to lower drug prices, but lawsuits, loopholes and opposition from the drug industry could undermine them.
Cost of Care
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Dems’ New Drug Pricing Deal: What You Need to Know
Stacie Dusetzina shares key takeaways from the drug pricing provisions of the new Inflation Reduction Act.
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Abortion Funds’ Growing Role Post-Roe
Independent abortion funds have been flooded with donations post-Roe. How do these funds work and what role will they play in a post-Roe world?
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Good Intentions Gone Awry
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become so controversial?
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Do Higher Hospital Prices Reflect Greater Investments in Quality?
Benedic Ippolito shares new research that examines whether hospitals with higher prices also offer higher quality care.
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Hospitals Scooping Up Physician Practices Drives Health Care Prices Up
Aditi Sen shares new research that examines whether hospital consolidation increases health care prices.
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Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
We explore cascades of care — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
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Digging Into the Growth in 340B Contract Pharmacies
Paula Chatterjee shares new research on the whether a popular discount drug program is reaching the patients it was designed to support.
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Fixing the Obamacare ‘Glitch’ That Pushed One Couple to Divorce
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
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MRIs, Mammograms and the Risk of Breast Cancer Screening Cascades of Care
Stacie Dusetzina shares new research on how much extra care comes after different kinds of breast cancer screenings.