Derek Monson
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Prescription Drugs 101: The players
The prescription drug market can feel overwhelmingly complicated. There are multiple players with sometimes unfamiliar names. The impact each has on the price we pay at the pharmacy is not always clear.
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Prescription Drugs 101: Understanding the price you pay at the pharmacy
This series will describe and decode each component of the prescription drug market for policymakers and interested members of the public through sound research and analysis, written to be understood by a general audience.
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New healthcare study puts U.S. at No. 4 in world
The index offers clues into how countries, and by extension states in the U.S., can create market-driven systems that increase the value of healthcare; that is, produce higher quality results for less cost.
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College sports shutdowns reveal another virus: uncertainty
This uncertainty is causing our civic institutions to question whether they can properly function during the pandemic, leading to major cancellations. This psychological infection runs deeper than just college football: the American institution of free elections is being questioned due…
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Will healthcare sector choose reform – or be pushed?
2020 is bringing us to a fork in the road for the future of American healthcare. Will the healthcare sector change itself, or will public policy force it to change?
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Utah primed for COVID-19 recovery after new vote by pharmacy board
A unanimous vote in a public meeting of the Utah Board of Pharmacy this week moved to add “COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2)” to the list of vaccines approved for pharmacies to offer on the state’s Vaccine Administration Protocol.
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Courts legislate from bench when Congress abdicates its power
The best way to check the ambition of the Supreme Court to make law, rather than interpret law, is to ensure that Congress is actually making the laws, rather than sitting on the sidelines.
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They taught us to be optimistic in the face of hardship
The lives of so many of Utah’s pioneers are a testament that sometimes maintaining our freedom and enjoying our rights requires uncomfortable sacrifices and life changes for us all. As we celebrate and honor the sacrifices made on our behalf,…
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Supreme Court steps up where Congress fails
Much of the nation will, for now, continue in a futile attempt to achieve complete victory over “the other side.” But the Supreme Court’s rulings on LGBTQ equality and religious freedom, simultaneously protecting both, reveal a better way.
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COVID-19 watch: Change is constant
The more time goes on, the more we are learning that the pandemic presents a fluid and changing economic and public health landscape.