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Corporations: “get healthcare costs under control”

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SUMMARY: A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Purchaser Business Group on Health shows signs that corporate executives might be warming to the idea of government getting more involved to rein in the excesses of the healthcare system. It’s affecting their bottom lines, and they won’t stand for that.

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The need for mental healthcare is great

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The national rate of suicidal ideation among adults has increased every year since 2011-2012. This is a massive problem as the percentage of adults with a mental illness reported an unmet need for treatment every year since 2011. Healthcare in the U.S. Suicidal ideation continues to increase among adults in the U.S.

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Sorry, the Inflation Bill won’t lower healthcare costs

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The Inflation Reduction Act’s health insurance subsidies and drug pricing reforms will improve health care affordability for Americans but won’t do a damn thing for our overall healthcare costs, which will keep rising. A staggering 85% of healthcare costs in the U.S. Finally, there are healthcare administrative costs.

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The era of “consumer healthcare”?

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“Unicorns” are competing with incumbent healthcare companies and technology giants to make people better and prevent them from getting ill in the first place. The transformation to “consumer healthcare” will be evolutionary, not revolutionary. Here is a summary of the article from The Economist.

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Top 12 Healthcare Technology Start-ups To Know

Medico Reach

The healthcare sector has seen a few developments over the years. Tempus began with the goal of incorporating artificial intelligence and data science into the healthcare industry. Collective Healthcare develops intelligent solutions to help US organizations provide better employee healthcare coverage. billion in 2022.

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New FDA head needs to examine the accelerated approval program

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Between 2011 and 2018, cumulative spending on 44 FDA-approved oral targeted therapy drugs was $3.5 This is another example of just how screwed up our healthcare system really is. billion, with more than half of that devoted to products that did not provide a “documented overall survival benefit” in clinical trials.

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New antibody drug formulation wins novel MHRA approval

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has authorised the first product via its new International Recognition Procedure (IRP). Launched in January 2024, the IRP enables the MHRA to accelerate the assessment of new medicines and thus allow patients in the UK to access treatments earlier.