In a newly unsealed deposition, a former Express Scripts executive (unintentionally) reveals how hard his colleagues were undermining his ‘mission’ to cut drug prices.
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When M.D.s Go Union
The wave of professionals who are joining unions has now reached the ranks of physicians.
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The Oliver Twist
How orphan drugs became big business for Big Pharma
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Discount Health
Dollar General is part of a trend of major retailers trying to move into medical care. Cut-rate treatment is the last thing needed in the vulnerable populations dollar stores serve.
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Health Care’s Intertwined Colossus
How decades of policy failures led to the ever-powerful UnitedHealth Group
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Q&A: How Corporate Medicine Destroys Doctors
Wendy Dean, who co-authored a new book about moral injury in American medicine, says working in today’s health care system is ‘not the agreement that we thought we were making.’
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Patient Zero
Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.
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Shock Treatment in the Emergency Room
The Lehman-like collapse of a(nother) private equity–owned ER operator has physicians calling louder than ever for a strike.