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Pharma Roundup: Obama May Decrease Drug Revenue, Strong Viagra and Cialis Sales, and More
Obama health plan provision could cost pharma billions in revenue; Viagra and Cialis sales still swelling; Glaxo opts for transparency; contract manufacturing worth $20 billion by John Maas
Tags: Revenue, Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Viagra, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, John Maas, Obama Health Plan
Blog posts 2008-10-23

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The Obama Health Plan's Impact on Pfizer: Final Nail in the Coffin or New Beginning?
It seems as if the Pfizer PFE is in for continued rough sliding - witness the collapse of share prices for it and its peer major Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology companies last week after President Obama unveiled his new healthcare initiatives. This comes on top of the less...
Tags: Healthcare, The Pharmaceutical Maven, Pfizer Inc., Wyeth
External links 2009-03-03
Is the Obama Administration Giving Up On a Public-Sector Insurance Plan?
I doubt it.  Progressives are in the middle of a long negotiation with conservatives that will end in  conference committee late this fall, where politicians will merge the Senate and House versions of the bills, hammering out the differences. We know that the House bill contains a strong public sector...
Tags: plan, health care, option, U.S. Senate
News items 2009-08-18
Health Care Reform: What It Will Cost You
Despite what you've heard, it won't be only rich people and "inefficiencies" footing the bill. One way or another, whoever you are, you'll share the costs. Here's how. ...
Tags: Health Insurance, Medicare, Income, Health Care, U.S. Senate, Healthcare Reform, MoneyWatch, House, Likelihood, Value, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Taxes, Personal Finance, Human Resources, Financial Planning, Finance, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Tax Exclusion, Itemized Deductions, Sin Taxes, Health Insurance Subsidy, Michelle Andrews
Articles 2009-08-10
Insurers Expand Primary Care: an Argument for Obama's Plan
Imagine appointments with your primary care doctor that last 30 minutes—or longer. What if you could e-mail her when you need a prescription refill? If you have a two-minute question, she encourages you to call; she or a nurse practitioner will come to the phone. If they're busy, they'll return...
News items 2009-08-07
Can Obama Deliver Real Healthcare Reform?
The outlines of President Obama’s healthcare reform plan are coming into view. Instead of proposing a grand scheme, like the Clinton reform plan, the President first threw out some ideas about where where to make cuts in government funding of healthcare to help finance an expansion of coverage. Then today,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Human Resources, Ken Terry, Software, Vertical Industries
Blog posts 2009-03-05
Has the Health-Insurance Industry Buckled on Reform? Sort of, But Not Really
When the Clinton health plan died in 1994, the health-insurance industry's fingerprints were all over the murder weapon. Now that rumblings of comprehensive healthcare reform are starting to take on critical mass in the incoming Obama administration and Congress, the insurance industry has apparently reconsidered its adamant objection to a...
Tags: Insurance Company, Health Care, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-11-20
Health IT Honchos Advise Obama
Before President-Elect Obama even takes office, prominent health IT executives are already weighing in on how he should promote the adoption of health IT. Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare, predicted that the Obama Administration will invest less in  health IT than the $50 billion that Obama...
Tags: Physician, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2008-12-15
Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You
The bills moving through Congress could have a bigger impact on your financial future than any legislation in a long, long time. Here's all you need to know to follow the key issues. ...
Tags: Income, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, MoneyWatch, Does, House, Taxes, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Insurance Premiums, Health Insurance Exchange, Medicare, Prescription Drug Coverage, Donut Hole, Cadillac Policy, Age Rating, Small Business Owner, Michelle Andrews
Articles 2009-08-07
Healthcare Roundup: Device Makers Eye Reform, Hospital Pay Innovation, Mayo Leader Attacks Public Plan, and More
Device Makers’ Turn? â€" There’s talk that the Obama Administration may ask the medical device industry to pledge between $15 billion and $25 billion in savings over the next 10 years to help pay for healthcare reform. The Administration has already gotten agreements from hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, fueling speculation...
Tags: Innovation, Hospital, Mayo Clinic, Health Care, Attack, Administration, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Robots, Human Resources, Emerging Technologies, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-07-24
Big Pharma?s Divide and Conquer Strategy
Michael Steinberg submits: Multiple recent polls have indicated that Americans want a government run health insurance option and President Obama seems to be holding the line. Republicans say the people cannot be trusted because they don’t understand that they would be getting a “pig in a poke.” Liberal Senator...
Tags: Healthcare, Michael Steinberg
External links 2009-06-23
Let's Reboot America's Health IT Conversation Part 2: Beyond EHRs
by DAVID C. KIBBE and BRIAN KLEPPER Yesterday we tried to put EHRs into perspective. They're important, and we can't effectively move health care forward without them. But they're only one of many important health IT functions. EHRs and health IT alone won't fix health care. So developing a comprehensive...
News items 2009-08-07
Health Care Sector Long Term Cumulative A/D Line
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: The S&P 500 Health Care sector has been holding up remarkably well over the last few days in an environment where the majority of the market has been subject to profit-taking. Looking at the cumulative advance/decline for the sector since 1990 shows...
Tags: Healthcare, Bespoke Investment Group
External links 2009-05-14
Can Health Care ETFs Benefit from Obama?s Plan?
Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: Congress and the White House have the difficult task of keeping health care reform under $1 trillion, while ensuring coverage to 95% of the population in the United States. Can related exchange traded funds ETFs benefit if a cost-effective plan comes to fruition?...
Tags: Healthcare, ETF, Tom Lydon
External links 2009-07-13
As Lilly, Pfizer Lobby Against Obama Healthcare Plan, Their Execs Enjoy Gold-Plated Coverage
Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and PhRMA all oppose a pubic heathcare plan, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. But their top executives have health insurance plans which include cash payments of thousands of dollars and coverage that extends for years if they get laid off. by Jim Edwards
Tags: Pfizer Inc., Benefits, Healthcare, Insurance, Payroll Solutions, Vertical Industries, Operational Accounting, Human Resources, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-07-10
The president's health-care miscalculations
NEW YORK Fortune -- For health-care reform, 2009 wasn't supposed to be a repeat of 1993-94. It would be different this time. That's been the conventional wisdom 15 years after the defeat of First Lady Hillary Clinton's ambitious plan, which badly shook her husband's young presidency. This time, industry players...
Tags: plan, health care, Barack Obama
News items 2009-08-22
What the Health Care Reform Plans Get Wrong
An American Enterprise Institute economist gives his recommendations for how health care reform should be pursued -- and explains why he's skeptical of President Obama's claims that if you like your current health insurance plan, you'll be able to keep it. Miller...
Tags: Coverage, Health Care, Healthcare Reform, MoneyWatch, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Health Insurance, Thomas Miller, American Enterprise Institute, Health Care Reform Health Insurance, Republican Party, Medicaid, Single Payer System, Insurance Underwriting, Michelle Andrews
Articles 2009-08-17
Health Care: How's it Going to Affect Me?
I've talked to health care economists, health care providers, insurance and pharmaceutical industry insiders and Americans of all income levels to discuss the current debate about health care reform. The consensus is clear: we need reform, but I/we don't want to bear too much of the burden. ...
Tags: Barack Obama, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Human Resources, Jill Schlesinger
Blog posts 2009-07-22
AMA Applauds Obama, But These Are Early Days
The leadership of the American Medical Association praised President Obama’s long, detailed speech on health care reform at the AMA Convention in Chicago. In a press conference held after the speech today, AMA President Nancy Nielsen, MD noted that the President had received a “warm reception” from the delegates. That's...
Tags: President, Physician, Barack Obama, Health Care, AMA, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-06-15
Health Care Reform's Public Option: Everything You Need to Know
The government-run public insurance option will continue to be a contentious topic as health care reform moves to the Senate. Here?s a comprehensive look at how it?s likely to be structured, what it might mean for your health care costs now and in the future, as well...
Tags: Health Care, Plan, Healthcare Reform, Option, MoneyWatch, House, CBO, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Insurance Premiums, Health Insurance Exchange, Uninsured, Senate Finance Committee, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Democrats, Republicans, American Medical Association, Harry Reid, Olympia Snowe, AMA, Medicare, Medicaid, Trigger Mechanism, Small Businesses, Congressional Budget Office, Joe Lieberman, Lisa Collier Cool
Articles 2009-11-13
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