An Illinois-based pharmaceutical manufacturer plans to invest $1.4 billion in Durham County.
Alarmist rhetoric about what Trump will do to drug prices is largely false.
Food is medicine, and it must become an integral part of our healthcare strategy.
High healthcare costs are an added tax that impacts everything from hiring and wages, to retirement savings.Thankfully NC's divided government should be able to find bipartisan ways to lower healthcare costs.
Folwell is right that these weight-loss drugs strain budgets at the current price. But the sky-high prices are due to PBMs not drug companies.
I am worried about possible legislation here in NC that would compromise patient safety and impede PBMs’ ability to manage costs for patients like the ones I serve.
Too many North Carolinians suffer from the high cost of prescription drugs. Fifty-four percent of Tar Heels say they struggle to afford the medication they need. Over 30% say they skip taking their prescription drugs to save money. North Carolina’s drug costs problems are only expected to get worse. Pharmacies throughout the state are experiencing substantial supply shortages of...
As a concerned North Carolinian, consumer of healthcare, and an accomplished healthcare executive, I know how important it is for Sens. Ted Budd and Thom Tillis to stand up to the pharmaceutical giants keeping drug prices in North Carolina so high. Even though North Carolina already ranks 37th out of 50 states on healthcare affordability burdens — a problem...
If a relaxation of government rules can speed up access to life-saving vaccines, policymakers should look at other areas where regulation's harms outweigh its benefits.
Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic include the importance of keeping money in savings to cushion an economic shutdown. Accurate and transparent data, we’ve learned, is critical. Restrictions to freedom must be temporary. Emergency calls for innovation, whether that’s receiving health care through telemedicine, learning and working online, or expanding opportunities by lifting long–held restrictions. By making strong fiscal principles work within a tight budget, North Carolinians have...
States that more rapidly adopted new drugs and new diagnostic imaging techniques had bigger gains in life expectancy that did slow-adoption states.
