News tagged with health spending
FDA outlines path for lower-priced biotech drugs
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to review the first lower-cost versions of biotech drugs, expensive medications which have never before faced generic competition.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Financial burden of prescription drugs is dropping: Costs remain a challenge for many
The financial burden Americans face paying out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs has declined, although prescription costs remain a significant challenge for people with lower incomes and those with public insurance, ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Pharma's niche focus spurs US aid for antibiotics
(AP) -- The pharmaceutical industry won approval to market a record number of new drugs for rare diseases last year, as a combination of scientific innovation and business opportunity spurred new treatments for diseases ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 25, 2012 |
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Study examines research on overuse of health care services
The overuse of health care services in the United States appears to be an understudied problem with research literature limited to a few services and rates of overuse varying widely, according to an article published in the ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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America hits the brakes on health care spending
Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation's economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Research finds Medicare and private insurance spending similar throughout Texas
Variations in health care spending by Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) are similar throughout the state despite previous research, which found significant spending differences between the private and ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Study examines trends in quality of care and health care spending for depression
Over a 10-year period, spending for Medicaid-enrolled patients with depression increased substantially but only minimal improvements in quality of care were observed, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 05, 2011 |
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New analysis of government data shows that military spending is a weak job engine compared to other investments
Given the recent focus on the federal defense budget, Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier, of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, have revisited their assessment of the ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Florida poll: Research important for state economy, jobs
A majority of Floridians (87%) believe it is important for their state to be a leader in science and medical research, according to a new state poll commissioned by Research!America. The poll also shows that 80% think spending ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Oct 27, 2011 |
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Study finds consumers may have more control over health costs than previously thought
The historic RAND Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their health care spending once they began to receive a physician's care, but a new study shows that this has changed for those ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Survey shows many US physicians believe their own patients are receiving too much care
A survey of US primary care physicians shows that many believe that their own patients are receiving too much medical care and many feel that malpractice reform, realignment of financial incentives and having more time with ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Reduce health care spending in socially and fiscally responsible manner, ACP to Congress
Recommendations to reduce federal health care spending in a socially and fiscally responsible manner today were made in a letter to the Congressional Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction from the American College of Physicia ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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New report: US investment in health research remains stagnant
The U.S. public and private sectors invested $140.5 billion in 2010 on research to find new ways to treat, cure and prevent disease and disability, according to Research!America's latest annual estimate, available at http://www.researchamerica.org/uploads/healthdollar10.pdf.
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Rising health costs eroding Americans' income gains, study finds
Fast-rising health costs have eaten nearly all the income gains made by a median-income American family of four over the past decade, leaving them with just $95 per month in extra income, after accounting for taxes and price ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Two studies show that fear of 'gray tsunami' may be overblown
Fears that Canada's aging population could lead to skyrocketing health care costs and doctor shortages may be greatly exaggerated, according to two studies by researchers at the University of British Columbia.
Aug 29, 2011 |
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