What is health policy? Health policy can be defined as the “decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society”.
Messages on the popular social media site balked at the retail pharmacy refusing to fill a prescription for non-abortion related care, using #BoycottCVS. At the time of publishing, the tweet had 150,000 likes and 49,000 retweets.
The US Food and Drug Administration is relaxing its unique device identified (UDI) rule requirements for low-risk class I consumer health products. Other class I and unclassified devices will still need to follow UDI requirements, though FDA announced it will extend its compliance deadline for those devices to 8 December 2022.
Contraception legislation follows effort to protect same-sex and interracial marriage
The bill to allow Medicare to negotiate some drug prices, cap out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors, and extend temporary subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance premiums would represent a major step if Democrats can get it across the finish line.
In efforts to reach millions more effectively the nationwide hotline for mental health emergencies is switching from an 10 digit number to a more simplier three digit number.
Only two provisions in a once sprawling social spending package have survived; they would lower prescription drug prices and Medicare and insurance premiums for millions of Americans.
Policy experts (including CBOH’s own Brian Miller) outline ways in which the CDC has become outdated and potential paths forward in its evolution.
Socioeconomic, racial and gender inequities in healthcare account for nearly $320 billion in annual spending, and could account for $1 trillion or more by 2040, according to an analysis out Wednesday from Deloitte.
Recommendations on how the US should build a nationalized public health system. Recommendations come from policy experts and address Congress, the new administration as a whole, as well as local health departments.
Many US hospitals are facing unprecedented financial strain and the AHA reached out to Congress requesting to delay cuts to Medicare. AHA claimed financial relief would be needed for such cuts “to maintain access to care for the patients and communities they serve.”
Experts warn against waiting until imminent insolvency to begin bolstering Medicare funding.
Many of today’s drug development strategies seek to avoid parenteral administration and sponsors continue to be motivated to develop critical medicines in OSD forms because of patient and payer benefits.
