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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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The Code is Cracked: Interchangeable Biologics are Here

FDA Law Blog

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. As FDA states in its Press Release, “Biosimilars marketed in the U.S.

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

FDA Law Blog

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. Code Ann. § Becerra , No.

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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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Identifying and Resolving Red Flags: DEA Continues to “Run it Up the Flagpole”

FDA Law Blog

27, 2010). Houck — The Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) recently issued another Final Order revoking a pharmacy registration based on the failure of the pharmacy to meet its corresponding responsibility, more specifically, the failure to identify and resolve red flags. Holiday CVS, 77 Fed. and SND Health Care, L.L.C.;

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Ensuring the ACA Contraceptive Mandate Meets the Original Intention of Congress

FDA Law Blog

The imposition of insurance-related hurdles beyond FDA approval, such as time-consuming prior authorizations or costly co-payments, can impede access to critical health care, such as contraceptives. In some instances, however, this is only the first hurdle to make innovative products available to patients. 300gg-13(a)(4).

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Today’s podcast is part one of a two-part podcast where we spend a day at CMF, a medium security prison located about halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, and the hospice unit housed inside its walls. Afterwards, we chat with the prison’s chaplain, Keith Knauf. And it’s an incredibly compelling place to work. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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