healthcare
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Prescription Drugs 101: One visual to rule them all
The prescription drug market can seem like a complex web. This visual describes where and how the money flows as prescription drugs travel from manufacturers to patients.
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Prescription Drugs 101: The 6 things that determine the price we pay
Of the many factors that influence the price we pay at the pharmacy, only a few are controlled by the patient. Some factors can be influenced by policymakers – whom patients elect – but the complexity of the prescription drug…
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Prescription Drugs 101: Follow the money
Following the flow of money and learning how each player makes money is important for understanding what you pay at the pharmacy. Decisions that prescription drug market players make to improve their cash flow can often directly impact a patient’s…
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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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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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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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Politics, public health don’t mix
Politics and public health should be like sick people and healthy people: kept apart as much as possible. Politics erodes everything that it touches, especially in a public health crisis.