Silberner: Drug Price Negotiation

Silberner: Drug Price Negotiation

For STAT News, Joanne Silberner (@jsilberner) reports on the role of a medication’s efficacy and R&D costs in its eventual price, and what role this might play in Medicare’s newly granted authority to negotiate prices. She discusses new research that reveals the...

Seinfeld: Guidance, Not Handcuffs

KPLU’s Keith Seinfeld, while dodging anarchists in downtown Seattle, managed to talk with Dr. Donald Berwick, former Chief of Medicare and Medicaid, about health care and politics. Berwick was in town to deliver Group Health Research Institute’s annual Birnbaum...