Sometimes the weblog posts write themselves from contrasting paper headlines.
New York Times
New Gene-Therapy Treatments Will Carry Whopping Price Tags
By GINA KOLATA September 11, 2017
Washington Post
The dam is breaking on Democrats’ covert of single-payer
By Aaron Blake September 12 at 9:39 AM
By the way, permit us picket for the crucial buzzword question. Does "single payer" hateful there is a unmarried payer that anyone can role -- but you're gratuitous to purchase in addition to sell your ain insurance on altitude of that, hopefully deregulated since at that topographic point is no ask to regulate anymore, everyone has access to medicare for all? Or does "single payer" hateful at that topographic point is a unmarried payer that everyone must role -- someone insurance, someone practice, only paying cash illegal, to cross-subsidize the system? I fright the latter. We'll see.
The previous champion was stories on the same page inwards WSJ, some ``self driving trucks coming soon'' in addition to ``shortage of truck drivers.'' I lost the link.
New York Times
New Gene-Therapy Treatments Will Carry Whopping Price Tags
By GINA KOLATA September 11, 2017
Emily Whitehead, the kickoff pediatric patient to have the gene-therapy handling Kymriah, which pose her leukemia into remission. The handling has a $475,000 cost tag, raising questions nigh how patients in addition to insurers volition pay. ...
One drug, to foreclose blindness inwards those amongst a rare genetic disease, for example, is expected to cost betwixt $700,000 in addition to $900,000 per patient on average,..
Washington Post
The dam is breaking on Democrats’ covert of single-payer
By Aaron Blake September 12 at 9:39 AM
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) became the 4th co-sponsor of Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) “Medicare for all” health-care nib Monday. In doing so, he joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in addition to Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.).
What create those iv senators convey inwards common? Well, they only occur to institute iv of the 8 most probable 2020 Democratic presidential nominees, according to the handy listing I break Friday.
Update: Gillibrand only signed on to Sanders's "Medicare for all" bill. So right away five of my altitude 8 potential 2020 Democratic nominees convey right away come upwards out for the nib -- earlier it is fifty-fifty introduced. "Health assist should hold upwards a right, non a privilege, then I volition hold upwards joining Senator Bernie Sanders every bit a cosponsor on his Medicare-for-All legislation," Gillibrand said.Hint. Budget constraints? Hint 2: leave of absence ready to start making lots of dissonance if yous desire treatment.
By the way, permit us picket for the crucial buzzword question. Does "single payer" hateful there is a unmarried payer that anyone can role -- but you're gratuitous to purchase in addition to sell your ain insurance on altitude of that, hopefully deregulated since at that topographic point is no ask to regulate anymore, everyone has access to medicare for all? Or does "single payer" hateful at that topographic point is a unmarried payer that everyone must role -- someone insurance, someone practice, only paying cash illegal, to cross-subsidize the system? I fright the latter. We'll see.
The previous champion was stories on the same page inwards WSJ, some ``self driving trucks coming soon'' in addition to ``shortage of truck drivers.'' I lost the link.
