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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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Changes in the Ambulatory Use of Antibiotics in France Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020-2022: A Nationwide Time-Series Analysis [Research Briefs]

Annals of Family Medicine

We estimated the changes in the ambulatory use of antibiotics in France due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022 by conducting time-series analyses using nationwide data from French health insurance databases. We examined all systemic antibiotics dispensed from January 1, 2010 through March 31, 2022.

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Affordable Care Act linked to reduced smoking among US adults with mental health and substance use disorders

Medical Xpress

During the first decade following passage of the Affordable Care Act (enacted March 2010), U.S. adults with mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD) experienced significant increases in health insurance coverage. They also showed significant reductions in smoking and increases in recent smoking abstinence.

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Winds of Change

Evergreen Family Medicine

Second, after the passage of the Affordable Care act in 2010, these systems – along with large insurers and other corporate entities – began aggressively acquiring physician practices. Third, with new phys

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The Code is Cracked: Interchangeable Biologics are Here

FDA Law

Though Congress enacted the pathway for approval of interchangeable biosimilars in 2010 in an effort to incentivize competition to address the high prices of biologics, no sponsor had yet to crack the code to interchangeable approval until now.

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PhRMA Sues Arkansas for Meddling in the Federal 340B Drug Discount Program

FDA Law

By Faraz Siddiqui — Last week, we blogged about a growing list of drug manufacturers that have refused to follow a 2010 guidance issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), which permits 340B covered entities to contract with multiple pharmacies to dispense drugs to covered entity patients.

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Legislative passage of Medicare

The Health Policy Exchange

health care legislation until the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Like every federally financed health insurance initiative to come, Medicare ended up costing substantially more than initially projected. (In This short video produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation summarizes changes that occurred in the program in the intervening years.

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