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Austin Frakt in The New York Times; subscription may be required
Oct. 19, 2015
"Germany, Spain, Italy and a half dozen other countries have pushed drug prices lower with a system called reference pricing. It has led to drug price decreases and significant savings in the Canadian province of British Columbia as well as in Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden. A study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that price reductions ranged from 7 percent to 24 percent."
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Austin Frakt in The New York Times; subscription may be required
Sept. 15, 2014
"Seeking to end the rapid rise in health care costs, in the 1990s employers embraced managed care plans -- plans, like health maintenance organizations, that restricted consumers' choices with narrow networks, as well as requirements for preapproval for some forms of treatment.... These cost-saving measures became increasingly unpopular. The backlash was swift and severe. Today's new narrow network plans also restrict choices, so will they suffer the same fate as 1990s managed care?"
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Austin Frakt in The New York Times; subscription may be required
July 9, 2014
"Studies the departments cited are suggestive, but far from definitive. A fuller review of the literature on the cost and cost offsets of contraceptive coverage ... finds that the evidence is thin that, from an insurer's perspective, contraceptive coverage pays for itself in the long term. Moreover, it almost certainly does not in the short. The cost of contraceptive coverage is immediate, and the possible offsets (reduced pregnancies) are downstream, often years in the future."
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Austin Frakt in The New York Times; subscription may be required
July 15, 2019
"A majority of Americans prefer greater regulation of prescription drug prices, meaning government intervention to lower them. But don't count on a single policy to address a nuanced problem.... Outside of a few government programs ... low-priced drugs are alike in that competition is the sole source of downward pressure on prices.... In contrast, high-priced drugs lack competition for various reasons[.]"
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Austin Frakt and Amitabh Chandra in The New York Times; subscription may be required
June 9, 2014
"Structuring health plans according to value would give Americans the ability to buy whatever health care technologies they choose -- including, if they want it, unproven and expensive care -- without forcing others to pay for that choice."
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