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Today's Topics
- Vision Care
- Biden's Budget Reconciliation Lacks Vision
- How Healthcare Stays Expensive
- For Consumers: More Ecommerce, More Gray Market … Please
- Why Can't Americans Buy Contact Lenses From Vending Machines?
- A Bad Deal on Contact Lenses
- Lawsuits Shouldn't Threaten Consumer Choice
- If You Wear Contact Lenses, This Lawsuit Could Affect You
- Alcon Can't Clear New Contact Lens Price-Fixing Claims
- The Coalition for Contact Lens Consumer Choice
- The Physician's Corner
- Reaper Care Is Not Health Care
- Are Virtual House Calls the Future of Medicine?
- On Health Care, Hispanics Reject Government Meddling
- Will the Real Joe Biden Please Stand up on Health Care?
- Top-down Health Care Doesn't Work – in Oregon or Anywhere Else
- Portable Health Insurance Will Drive Health Care Savings
- Nursing Homes Need Support, not Blame, During the Pandemic
- Health Care: a Personal Option v. 'The Public Option'
- Trump and Biden Are Wrong on Top-down Health Care
- It's Health Care, Stupid: Where do the Candidates Stand on Drug Prices
- 340B Drug Pricing Program
- Digital Health
- Google Launches Android App to Collect Data for Health Research
- Google Health Data Project Under Scrutiny
- Owning Personal Health Records Is the Key to Medical Innovation
- RealClear Digital Health
- Research, Big Data and Patient Privacy
- If We Hope to Better Face the Next Health Care Crisis …
- Digital Health Is Closing the Gap in Cancer Care
- Google Troubling Diktat on Contact-Tracing Apps
- Video Highlights
- 'Google v. Oracle' Watch
- Google's Free Piracy Pass
- Will the Supremes Destroy What Good Came From 2020?
- No (Last-) October Surprise for Digital Health
- Google v Oracle: Is Plagiarism Legal?
- Beware of Google's Foray into Health Care
- Google's Secret Cache of Medical Data
- SCOTUS Opens Politically Charged Term With Google v. Oracle
- Google, Oracle Meet in IPR Clash at Supreme Court
- Google v. Oracle: A RealClearHealth ‘Pen Panel' Symposium
- SCOTUS to Rule: Was Google Success Built On Stolen IP?
- Google v. Oracle: Google's Fair Use Will Unfairly Hurt Patients
- Endgame: Google v. Oracle
- Google v. Oracle and the Future of Health Innovation
- What's Next Google v. Oracle
- Surprise Medical Bills
- Big Insurance Pushes Bad Medicine
- Patients Lose if Congress Tries Relief Bill Trickery
- GOP Must Reject Crony ‘Surprise Medical Billing' Plan
- Just Say ‘No' to Price Controls
- Coalition Against Rate-Setting (CARS)
- Don't Put Insurance Handout into Next COVID Package
- Health Care Price Transparency
- Don't Bail out Big Insurance in Coronavirus Legislation
- Economists Urge Lawmakers to Reject Healthcare Rate-Setting
- Medicare for All
- It's Time to Reimagine Health Care
- How Medicare-for-All Would Make Your Health Care Worse, Not Better
- Warren's Plan to Fund Medicare-for-All a Big Fantasy That Hurts and Penalizes Small Business
- Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-All Means Worse Health Insurance at Higher Cost for Most Americans
- V.P. Biden's Plan Is Really a Side Door to Medicare-for-All
- The Republican Strategy to Pass Medicare-for-All Continues
- Drug Prices
- Trump Says U.S. States Will Be Able to Buy Prescription Drugs Abroad
- Poster Child for How Drug Companies Abuse Patent System
- Big Pharma Sinks to the Bottom of U.S. Industry Rankings
- Trudeau's Drug-Price Overhaul Is Set to Cost Drugmakers Billions
- How Big Pharma Reaps Profits While Hurting Everyday Americans
- There Is No Single, Best Policy for Drug Prices
- Trump Fixates on Drug Prices as Campaign Looms
- No End in Sight to Rising Drug Prices
- The Rebate System Spikes Drug Prices, Scripps Study Confirms
- The Messaging War Over Drug Prices
- Big Pharma's Go-To Defense of Soaring Drug Prices Doesn't Add Up
- Examination of International Drug Pricing Policies
- OPIOID CRISIS
- Opioid Crackdown Could Lead to More Drug Company Bankruptcies
- Cities and States Look to Big Pharma to Cover Costs of the Opioid Epidemic
- Using Opioids to Treat Addiction Is the Gold Standard. So Why Aren't More Docs Prescribing Them
- 50 States Ranked by Opioid Overdose Death Rates
- Opioid Crisis Brings Attention to Wealthy Family
