According to this Bloomberg article, the prices that are negotiated with German insurance companies also stand to set a guide for other countries as well. Germany in essence is fighting the same thing we are here with higher priced drugs that are becoming non affordable. Within the year’s...
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on Thu, Nov 11 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, health insurance, Heatlhcare, Politics, Patients, Germany, Bayer, insurance agent
This is not to say that a sick cow would not be treated, but don’t put the medication in the food to treat like a vaccine. We eat the meat from cows and thus what are we absorbing in this effort. The case of big business states that by giving the cows antibiotics it keeps them healthier and...
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on Sun, Apr 18 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Hospital, FDA, Antibiotics, Politics, Food, hospital acquired infections, bacteria, viruses, chickens, cows, transmissible disease, farms
Pharmacy benefit managers are getting creative and this appears to be another “business intelligence” solution to work with costs with insurance companies for cost, so if we want more genetic testing, here comes the management service to market and negotiate prices with employers . Remember too...
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on Mon, Feb 22 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Genomics, healthcare, warfarin, employers, Pharmacogenomics, Politics, CVS, Medco, Benefits, blood thinners, healthcare reform, pharmacy benefit managers
As the world of the internet continues to grow it is starting to become more apparent that the reliance on the 3rd party negotiator is stating to fail. When you think about it, you can almost get all the information you want from the internet or hire a data mining professional to do it for you...
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on Mon, Feb 15 2010
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, My Commentaries, Congress, Internet, Politics, Lobbying, Transparency, healthcare reform, Drug Companies, tech denial, technically challenged, PhRMA