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Opinion: The much-maligned ‘quality-adjusted life year’ is a vital tool for health care policy

22.03.2023

Health policy circles have erupted in debate over a wonky administrative tool: the quality-adjusted life year (QALY) and similar metrics to value and price drugs and other health interventions. Rep. …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The Cancer Moonshot will never take off without economists and finance experts

16.03.2023

In February, President Biden announced the reboot of the Cancer Moonshot and vowed to reduce cancer mortality by 50 percent in the next 25 years. It’s a goal that’s both …

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First Opinion / Pharma

Opinion: Drug developers navigating ‘biology’s century’ need a model. We made one

15.03.2023

STAT’s Matthew Herper struck an industry nerve when he wrote that the drug development industry is “not prepared for the next wave of biotech innovation.” His report ends on a …

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Biotech / First Opinion

Opinion: Use warranties, not outcomes-based agreements, to make payers whole when a gene therapy fails

09.03.2023

A decade ago, I had pegged gene and cell therapies as the next frontier. As an investment banker, I was sure they would someday change how patients were treated. But …

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First Opinion

Opinion: New analysis: CMS vastly overestimates hospital price transparency efforts

02.03.2023

More than two years after a federal rule required hospitals to post their actual prices, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finally responded to public pressure about the …

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First Opinion

Opinion: How to save three-quarters of a trillion dollars in health care costs

14.02.2023

Over the last 20 years, the United States has made great strides in expanding access to health care, with 92% of Americans now covered by health insurance — a historic …

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First Opinion

Opinion: CVS’s acquisition of Oak Street doesn’t address health care’s woes

10.02.2023

CVS Health’s acquisition of Oak Street Health, a Medicare-focused primary care provider, for $10.6 billion is just the latest in a string of primary care clinic buyouts by other retailers …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Reinventing health care in 2023

25.01.2023

After a year defined by record inflation and double-digit health care premium increases, I hope that a few years down the road we can eventually look back at 2023 as …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Millions of Americans have health insurance that isn’t ‘good enough’

04.11.2022

The open enrollment season for health insurance is gearing up at a time when more people in the United States have health insurance than ever before. Yet millions of Americans …

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