Yesterday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) banned flavored e-cigarettes, making it the first state in the nation to do so. The governor’s actions follow closely the actions of San Francisco where city officials banned the sale of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), or e-cigarettes, that have not received approval by the Food and Drug Administration […]
Current state of NIH facilities could undermine life saving research.
PBMs provide a valuable service in delivering drug benefits to beneficiaries.
Free-market fiscal conservatives are scratching their heads.
In 1982, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) were charged by Congress to share patient information for servicemembers transitioning from DOD into the VA health care system. This transition process has been anything but seamless, with medical records being attached to gurneys each time a patient was moved, and […]
This morning, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to review two potential ways to allow “safe” importation of certain drugs originally intended for foreign markets. No secretary of Health and Human Services or commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under a Republican or […]
Bottom line: Sen. Harris’s plan is just another entry way to force government-run healthcare on everyone.
For weeks, there was little information on what would be in the legislation since it was being discussed and written behind closed doors.
A July 23, 2019 Inside Health Policy healthcare column discusses predictions made by Colorado and California state officials on the cost of their insurance premiums in 2020 due to actions they took to make the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, more affordable. Colorado applied for a 1332 state innovation waiver that […]
It has been often said that in Washington, D.C. bad news comes out on a Friday afternoon and today, July 19, 2019, is no exception
