Two pieces of legislation dealing with prescription drugs are currently winding their way through Congress. The bills, however, are completely contradictory. One would create new controls for drug safety. The other would open the nation's supply chain to imported pharmaceuticals, many of which could be fake, counterfeit, or contaminated. Is Congress for drug safety or against it? … [Read more...] about Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Two pieces of legislation dealing with prescription drugs are currently winding their way through Congress. The bills, however, are completely contradictory. One would create new controls for drug safety. The other would open the nation's supply chain to imported pharmaceuticals, many of which could be fake, counterfeit, or contaminated. Is Congress for drug safety or against it? … [Read more...] about Drug Safety or Drug Danger?
Oval Office Meeting
President Bush expressed renewed interest in a refundable tax credit for the uninsured during an Oval Office meeting yesterday that I was privileged to attend, and he also drew the line on ?a massive expansion? of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. ?[O]ur nation has a clear choice,? Mr. Bush said in a statement in the Roosevelt Room after the meeting. ?One option is to put more power … [Read more...] about Oval Office Meeting
Response to the AMA's call to ban retail health clinics
The American Medical Association's call to ban retail health clinics is disheartening ("AMA takes on retail clinics," June 25). The AMA claims that retail health clinics are unsafe. But the clinics follow protocols from the Mayo Clinic and other highly-respected medical institutions to guide their decision making. Physicians' assistants and advanced degree nurses perform … [Read more...] about Response to the AMA's call to ban retail health clinics
Response to the AMA’s call to ban retail health clinics
The American Medical Association's call to ban retail health clinics is disheartening ("AMA takes on retail clinics," June 25). The AMA claims that retail health clinics are unsafe. But the clinics follow protocols from the Mayo Clinic and other highly-respected medical institutions to guide their decision making. Physicians' assistants and advanced degree nurses perform … [Read more...] about Response to the AMA’s call to ban retail health clinics
SiCKO. Need We Say More?
So Michael Moore brought his latest film to town on Wednesday for a well-publicized preview. SiCKO seems to have pushed most other serious health policy discussions off the agenda this week, even while key congressional committees were voting on more than a dozen important health care bills on prescription drug safety and health spending. Heaven forbid that we would wind up making policy by … [Read more...] about SiCKO. Need We Say More?
Markets Are Vital
Health policy guru Mark McClellan was the keynote speaker at our major conference yesterday at the National Press Club, answering with a resounding ?Yes!? the question we had posed in the title of our event, ?Is there a role for markets in health care?? Mark, together with three international and two other U.S. health policy experts, concluded that markets and consumerism must work together, here … [Read more...] about Markets Are Vital
Is There a Role for Markets in Health Care?
The Galen Institute and the International Policy Network co-hosted an event on Thursday, June 14, on "Is There a Role for Markets in Health Care?" Is there a way to use the dynamic, global marketplace to advance common international goals of making health care more affordable and more accessible? Dr. Mark McClellan and a lively panel of experts from the U.S. and abroad explored whether … [Read more...] about Is There a Role for Markets in Health Care?