The most frustrating thing about America’s failure to rein in drug prices is that a weapon against Big Pharma’s profiteering has been hiding in plain sight — and never used — for more than 40 years. But it’s now being unsheathed by the Biden White House. We’re talking about a provision of the Bayh-Dole Act… Continue reading Hiltzik: The U.S. finally moves to stop drug profiteering
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Hiltzik: Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, public health menace
It used to be fairly easy to dismiss Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, as a clownish anti-vaccine quack posing a danger mostly to residents of his home state. That has become harder to do as time goes on, as Ladapo has moved from promoting useless treatments for COVID-19, such as the drugs hydroxychloroquine… Continue reading Hiltzik: Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo, public health menace
Hiltzik: The emerging Medicaid disaster
Millions of Americans may have breathed a sigh of relief when the federal government declared the national pandemic emergency to have ended as of May 11. That doesn’t include Medicaid advocates and millions of Medicaid enrollees, however. The reason is that the end of the emergency meant the end of rules protecting those enrollees from… Continue reading Hiltzik: The emerging Medicaid disaster