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Women and Adolescent Girls Face Barriers Accessing Birth Control and Plan B – Even in Blue States Like California
States dedicated to ensuring women receive the care they need should fix existing gaps in contraceptive access.
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The Supreme Court Left Millions of Americans Uninsured: Here’s What Congress Can Do to Cover Them
Congress can expand healthcare to millions of Americans by enrolling individuals in the 12 states that did not expand Medicaid.
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The Cantwell-Grassley PBM Bill Is Much Needed But More Can Be Done
The proposed reforms are a helpful start, but could go further in addressing the lack of competition in the U.S. PBM market.
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PBMs Are Inflating the Cost of Generic Drugs. They Must Be Reined In
Anti-competitive practices and a lack of transparency in the generic drug market allow pharmacy benefit managers to profit off patients and payers.
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To Prevent Public Health Crises, We Need to Update the Essential Medical Product List
Brookings Schaeffer Initiate for Health Policy experts rights that policymakers should create a list of critically important products to avoid supply chain shortages.
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The Unequal Causes and Costs of Dementia
Dementia and its costs aren’t equally borne by all populations. Studies indicate that, compared to older non-Hispanic white adults, older Black adults are about twice as likely to have dementia, and older Hispanic adults about one and one-half times as likely.
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It’s Time to Let Pharmacists Prescribe COVID-Fighting Pills Like Paxlovid
To reduce hospitalization and death, pharmacists should have the same prescribing abilities as doctors for COVID anti-viral drugs Paxlovid and Lagevrio, USC School of Pharmacy
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Comments to the Federal Trade Commission on Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Researchers at the USC Schaeffer Center have been studying the pharmaceutical distribution system since 2016; these comments about PBMs draw on that body of research.
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I Wrongly Expected COVID to Fade Last Summer — Here’s What to Expect This Time
After believing the pandemic would be under control by Memorial Day 2021, Schaeffer Center expert Geoffrey Joyce writes why he believes COVID is nowhere near under control.
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Patients Deserve Immediate Access to FDA-Approved Innovations — Not Bureaucratic Restrictions
Nonresident Senior Fellow Joe Grogan argues that the FDA approval process is slowing down drug innovation.
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