NEW BRIEF: Biosimilars Save Patients Over $11 Billion Annually, Fixing Broken System Would Help Patients Save More
 
Pacific Research Institute | Wayne Winegarden
August 22, 2022

Biosimilars competition saves patients and the health care system over $11 billion annually and could generate even more savings if the broken drug pricing system were reformed, finds a new issue brief released today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute.


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In the physician shortage, there's a solution patients agree with - but the laws don't
 
Deseret News | Sally Pipes
August 23, 2022

The quickest way to get less of something is to regulate it. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the health sector, which suffers from a chronic shortage of physicians, particularly in primary care.

And it’s about to get worse. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States is facing a shortfall of up to 48,000 primary care physicians by 2034, especially in rural and historically marginalized urban areas.


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VA issues illustrate pitfalls of government health care
 
The News-Enterprise | Sally Pipes
August 15, 2022

In the fall of 2020, a patient in Augusta, Georgia, went to the local Veterans Affairs medical center for a minimally invasive urologic surgery, according to a new report from the VA’s Office of Inspector General.

Less than two weeks later, the OIG reports, he was dead. The Inspector General concluded there had been “multiple deficiencies” in the patient’s care. Among them, his doctor allegedly failed to account for his history of chest infections and alcoholism.


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Inflation Reduction Act Nightmare Targets Life-Saving Meds
 
Newsmax | Sally Pipes
August 18, 2022

President Joe Biden returned from vacation in South Carolina this week to sign the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The country would have been better off had he stayed at the beach.


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