The Once— And Future?— Catastrophic Cost of MI & Stroke

–Obamacare has protected many people with heart disease. Cardiovascular disease can often have a catastrophic economic effect on people who don’t have insurance. Two studies presented at the American Heart Association in Anaheim illustrate how the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, likely has helped hundreds of thousands of people avoid financial apocalypse. The first study,…

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‘Cardiology On A Collision Course With Specialty Pharmaceutical Pricing Models’

The recent approval of two new expensive cholesterol drugs “sets the practice of cardiology on a collision course with specialty pharmaceutical pricing models that were previously reserved for drugs that benefited relatively limited patient populations,” according to the authors of a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Until now cardiologists and other doctors treating the…

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