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Trump Administration’s Prescription Drug Importation Plan Is Likely To Face Challenges


By Tamara Keith, interviewing Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
NPR

From the interview: KEITH: But through three administrations, no HHS secretary has made such a certification. And earlier in his tenure, Azar even called the idea of importing cheaper drugs…

Trump Administration Plans To Allow Imports Of Some Prescription Drugs From Canada


By Bill Chappell, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
NPR

From the article: As for why Canada enjoys lower drug prices, Rachel Sachs, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Simmons-Duffin that it's a matter of…

Trump Administration Weighs Allowing Drug Imports for Cheaper Prescriptions


By Katie Thomas, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
New York Times

From the article: The announcement signaled a major policy shift: Just a year ago, Mr. Azar described such importation programs as “gimmicks” and no other administration has allowed…

Trump Administration, In Shift, Announces Plan To Permit Drug Importation


By Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
Health Affairs Blog

From the article: This morning, the Trump administration announced a plan that, if eventually finalized, would enable the importation of prescription drugs, primarily from Canada. This plan is part of…

Bernie Sanders took Americans to Canada to prove a point


By Tara Golshan, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
Vox

From the article: People with Type 1 diabetes paid an average of $5,705 for insulin in 2016, according to the Health Care Cost Institute. As Vox’s Julia Belluz reported, one in…

Park DuValle Clinic Faces Blowback After Ransomware Attack


By Lisa Gillespie, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
WFPL

From the article: Glenn Cohen, a professor and expert on bioethics and biotechnology at Harvard, said he understands why a health provider might not want to broadcast that they are…

One thing to change: Question that status quo


By I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Harvard Gazette

From the article: Question: What is one thing wrong with the world that you would change, and why? A famous phrase in philosophy, associated with David Hume among others, says…

Mass Medical Society backs end to religious exemption for vaccines


By Alexi Cohan, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Boston Herald

From the article: But C.J. Doyle, executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said the bill runs counter to both religious freedom and parental rights. “Parents…

Trump aims to make US drug prices like Europe’s


By Peter Sullivan, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
The Hill

From the article: The United States spent $1,011 per person on drugs in 2015, according to the Commonwealth Fund, far higher than other countries. By comparison, Switzerland spent $783, the United Kingdom spent $497,…

Senate Finance Committee to consider drug costs


By Erika Beras, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
Marketplace

From the article: Drug prices just keep rising – at five times the rate of inflation according to Gerard Anderson, professor at Johns Hopkins University who has been advising the…