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Medicine, public health, and the systems that pay for care — including where the sides disagree about the cure.
As negotiation expands to 30 more medicines, skeptics say the program’s savings are borrowed against the pipeline of drugs that don’t yet exist.
Zara Desai · · 5 min read
The fourth negotiation cycle reaches medicines used by 11 million beneficiaries — and advocates say the savings case is now proven.
Zara Desai · · 5 min read
The federal Rural Emergency Hospital license trades inpatient beds for survival — and two years of data show a program that helps some towns and misses others.
Zara Desai · · 6 min read