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Disruption in healthcare is coming

World of DTC Marketing

America’s profit-riddled healthcare-industrial complex consumes 17% of GDP, equivalent to $3.6trn a year. However, changes are slowly being implemented that could lower healthcare costs. Healthcare is ripe for disruption, but any attempt to disrupt our state of healthcare has been met with pushback and challenges.

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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. This is going to lead to a lot of health problems and associated costs. One in 4 U.S. percent of U.S.

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America’s healthcare costs are in deep crisis

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: The media loves to blame pharma companies for high healthcare costs, but unless we start to invest in healthy lifestyles, we’re headed for a healthcare crisis the likes of which we have never experienced. The media have targeted pharmaceutical companies for a long time because sensational headlines lead to clicks.

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Medicare savings won’t make a dent in healthcare costs

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SUMMARY: Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is popular with voters because the media has been focused on the high price of some drugs, but this measure won’t lead to lower healthcare costs. The drug industry is trying to convince voters that government negotiations with drug companies will lead to less innovation.

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Disruption my ass! Tech companies want healthcare dollars

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Amazon has set its sights on healthcare as it smells another profit opportunity. Google has signed an agreement with the Mayo clinic to help analyze data as they want a slice of healthcare dollars but what’s missing from these tech companies is “the human touch” that patients want. We are heading that way.

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9 Healthcare Marketing Trends to Embrace in 2023

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Healthcare consumers continue to move swiftly down the paths of least resistance toward quality care. This spells trouble for healthcare organizations that cannot change with the times. 9 Healthcare Marketing Trends 2023. 9 Healthcare Marketing Trends 2023. Consumer-First Content is Essential. Google is the gatekeeper.

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Lung cancer deaths decline but.

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The mortality rate from lung cancer has dropped in recent decades—by 56% in men from 1990 to 2019 and by 32% in women from 2002 to 2019. But it’s still the leading cause of cancer deaths. The mortality rate from lung cancer has dropped in recent decades—by 56% in men from 1990 to 2019 and by 32% in women from 2002 to 2019.

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