The Heartland Institute

Recent decisions by the rationing body of the UK National Health Service have placed drugs and treatments out of reach for patients based primarily on the question of cost. In a September decision, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) found the drug cabazitaxel was not sufficiently cost-effective to ...

A provision of President Obama’s health care law will mandate public reports on any incidents in which physicians accept speaking fees, five-star meals, or other compensation from pharmaceutical or medical device companies. The new requirement will publish on the internet the names of doctors and the value of the gifts they ...

As state officials work to administer a mass distribution of the H1N1 vaccine during the winter flu season, some health care providers are concerned they have not yet received sufficient doses of the vaccine. They say the distribution process should be streamlined. Demand, Shortages Vary Rahul Gupta, executive director of ...