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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. It was one thing to ask drivers to buy car insurance.

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An Offer You Can’t Refuse: Merck Attacks Medicare Negotiation Program as an Unconstitutional Taking

FDA Law Blog

to transfer their patented pharmaceutical products to Medicare beneficiaries, for public use” at a government-dictated price that is a fraction of the drug’s value. Merck asks the Court to declare that the Negotiations Program is a taking without just compensation and to enjoin the government’s agreements under the Fifth Amendment.

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Supreme Court Finds CMS’ Reduction of Medicare Hospital Outpatient Payment Rates for 340B Hospitals was Not Authorized by Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a final rule to significantly decrease the rate the government will reimburse 340B hospitals in 2018 for outpatient prescription drugs from average sales price (“ASP”) plus 6% to ASP minus 22.5%. By Faraz Siddiqui & Alan M. 52494 (Nov. citing 967 F.

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The Supremes Give the FTC “Nothing but Heartaches”: Court Unanimously Rules No Restitution in Injunction Cases, and How Will This Ruling Impact FDA?

FDA Law Blog

129 (2003). FDA’s response to our 2003 article, authored by Eric M. 169 (2003). Background on the case can be found in earlier posts here , here , here , and here. We conclude that it does not. It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. Fleder, Can FDA Seek Restitution or Disgorgement ? , 58 Food and Drug L.J.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. Prognosis communication and the subtle ways we may communicate it without intention. Social pain and loneliness. Community-based palliative care networks . Raj’s reflections on the state of palliative care in the US. Transcript.

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Ding Dong is the Skinny Label (Effectively) Dead?

FDA Law Blog

Teva case, that the statutory provisions governing patent infringement, specifically induced infringement, do not address carve-outs. Teva received tentative approval in June 2003 and launched in 2007 after a blocking patent expired. The catch is, as we have learned from the GSK v. Teva decision changed everything.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

In a 2005 article for Rolling Stone that was later retracted, Kennedy claimed government officials had buried data showing a link between vaccines and autism, The Wall Street Journal said. The final findings were published in 2003. It’s unclear if he has regained access. It added that “HHS will follow the science — wherever it leads.”