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Do Medicines Cost More Because of the Middlemen? dlvr.it/TVf5JH

Do Medicines Cost More Because of the Middlemen?

In this episode RealClearHealth Editor, Jerry Rogers talks with Hannah Anderson, Senior Director of Healthy America Policy at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) on how Pharmacy Benefit Managers

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Ending the Annual Physical dlvr.it/TVf5C8

Ending the Annual Physical

Do you think routine physical examinations are warranted?

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California's Wealth Tax Threatens Innovation dlvr.it/TVf55M

California’s Wealth Tax Threatens Innovation

California voters will soon decide whether to impose a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of the state’s billionaires.

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FDA Nominee's Prospects Uncertain After Heated Hearing dlvr.it/TVf4y1

FDA Nominee's Prospects Uncertain After Heated Hearing

Thursday's Senate confirmation hearing for Food and Drug Administration commissioner nominee Heidi Overton yielded little insight as to how she'd regulate access to vaccines and abortion pills, or whe

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We Are Dangerously Addicted to Antidepressants dlvr.it/TVf4pq

We Are Dangerously Addicted to Antidepressants

Drugs for treating depression are among the most prescribed category of medications in the U.S. – 1 in 6 American adults take them.

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Consumer Choice Should Apply to Hospitals as Well dlvr.it/TVf4hN

Consumer Choice Should Apply to Hospitals as Well

Americans are clamoring for relief from soaring healthcare prices.

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What Happens When the Government Runs Health Care dlvr.it/TVf4dg

What Happens When the Government Runs Health Care

Our co-founder Steve Forbes is right. This is a national disgrace. The Left’s answer is more health care socialism.  

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Affordability Crisis Hitting Consumers of Prescription Drugs dlvr.it/TVf4Yp

Affordability Crisis Hitting Consumers of Prescription Drugs

Affordability is shaping up to be the defining issue of the 2026 midterm elections. In swing states and battleground districts, voters consistently rank the cost of living, and prescription drug price

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MFN Drug Pricing Won't Help, But Competition Will dlvr.it/TVf4Tn

MFN Drug Pricing Won’t Help, But Competition Will

Pharmaceuticals cost more in America than in any other developed nation. But copying Europe’s price controls with Most Favored Nation pricing (MFN) will not fix that problem. Washington should i

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Two Kidney Transplants. What MFN Means for My Third dlvr.it/TVf4Pz

Two Kidney Transplants. What MFN Means for My Third

The Trump administration's latest round of voluntary drug-pricing deals has put Most Favored Nation pricing back in the headlines. I understand the appeal. I have spent my life depending on medicines

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Germany's Drug Prices Put Future Breakthroughs at Risk dlvr.it/TVdD6v

Germany’s Drug Prices Put Future Breakthroughs at Risk

In law, before reaching a conclusion, we have a responsibility to examine the full record carefully, honestly and without preconception. When the evidence reveals a serious problem, we also have a res

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Prescription Drugs: Access & Innovation dlvr.it/TVdD2R

Prescription Drugs: Access & Innovation

Prescription Drugs panel, moderated by Jerry Rogers, editor of RealClearHealth  

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Do Medicines Cost More Because of the Middlemen? dlvr.it/TVdCy9

Do Medicines Cost More Because of the Middlemen?

In this episode RealClearHealth Editor, Jerry Rogers talks with Hannah Anderson, Senior Director of Healthy America Policy at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) on how Pharmacy Benefit Managers

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PBMs Aren't the Healthcare Affordability Problem dlvr.it/TVdCrc

PBMs Aren’t the Healthcare Affordability Problem

America’s healthcare affordability crisis is much larger than pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). CMS projects national healthcare spending of about $5.7

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Fauci Papers Cast Doubt on His Clemency Claims dlvr.it/TVdCl8

Fauci Papers Cast Doubt on His Clemency Claims

Justice Department documents contradict 60 Minutes report on pardons.

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HHS Crack Down on ACA Fraud; Dems Cry Foul dlvr.it/TVdCdw

HHS Crack Down on ACA Fraud; Dems Cry Foul

The Trump Administration cancelled the ACA health plans for more than 750,000 enrollments that are suspected of being fraudulent. Democrats immediately criticized the move. For instance, former House

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Why Young Women Turn to TikTok for Health Advice dlvr.it/TVdCV8

Why Young Women Turn to TikTok for Health Advice

A growing share of young women get health and wellness information from social media influencers. Survey data points to convenience, a desire for lifestyle change, and entertainment as the main reason

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ChatGPT Solved the Wrong Problem dlvr.it/TVdCHy

ChatGPT Solved the Wrong Problem

My patient didn’t need a prescription drug; she needed a human to understand her.

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Obesity Science's Fat-Cell Blind Spot dlvr.it/TVdC7r

Obesity Science’s Fat-Cell Blind Spot

A new Endocrine Society “Scientific Statement” puts the brain at the center of obesity and GLP-1 action—but ignores the means by which the brain directly regulates fat storage.

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Healthcare Should Support Advancements in Cancer Care dlvr.it/TVdC0c

Healthcare Should Support Advancements in Cancer Care

The United States has long led the world in medical innovation. In cancer care, that progress has produced treatments that are more targeted and increasingly capable of treating disease while protecti

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