Physicians and other medical professionals discuss an op-ed article on the high costs, drug shortages and access problems plaguing U.S. healthcare.
. He focuses on mental health needs, out-of-control drug prices, insufficient hospital funding and a bloated and inefficient private health insurance industry.
These problems are all linked, of course. Enacting Stone’s “Medicare for all” solution, a unified system of public financing, would be a major effective step in meeting all these challenges.Other countries have already got this, and it works well. How much longer must Americans suffer?The writer is president of the California Physicians Alliance, which advocates for single-payer healthcare.Stone extols the virtues of a single-payer system for the U.S.
As for Ozempic, an injectable treatment for Type 2 diabetes, the same medication, formulated in a higher dose for managing obesity, is dispensed under the brand name Wegovy. In Great Britain, the list price for a month’s supply of four injection pens of Wegovy — which is not yet covered by the National Health Service — is about $88, whereas in the U.S. the same prescription product sells for $1,349.Harold N.
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