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10 hours ago ago from The Volokh Conspiracy

Both the House and Senate health care bills contain an unwelcome surprise for those whose current health care plans allow “flexible savings accounts” for out-of-pocket medical expenditures.  FSAs enable people to spend pre-tax dollars on medical expenditures, including doctor visit co-pays and drug costs.  Money is deducted from an employee’s paycheck, pre-tax, and placed in a separate account that can only be used to reimburse for medical ...

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10 hours ago ago from LoveReturn

In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration relaxed its restrictions on direct-to-consumer marketing of pharmaceuticals. Prior to this ruling, drug manufacturers were prohibited from mentioning both the name of the drug and its indications in consumer-directed advertisements without also including a large amount of technical information about the drug, including all known side effects, contraindications, and dosage recommendations (Stevens, ...

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1 day ago ago from Eideard

leave a comment The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom’s nationalized health care system regularly denies access to some high-cost treatments needs rethinking Critics of the U.K. system say care there is rationed — that patients are denied some expensive therapies so that better health care can be provided to the nation as a ...

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