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Why does Humira cost less in Europe?

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Why does Humira cost less in Europe?

‘Socialized medicine’ fosters more competition than US approach

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POLITICIANS FREQUENTLY TALK about doing something to address the high cost of pharmaceuticals. President Trump has made especially loud promises that he would lower drug prices “really, really substantially.” On October 15 the administration announced an “historic proposal” intended to accomplish Trump’s goal. A new rule would require manufacturers to disclose drug prices in any(...)

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The many faces of climate denial

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The many faces of climate denial

Mass. leaders are soft-pedaling a dire problem

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North Carolinians are paying a price for the politicization of climate science. In 2012, the North Carolina state legislature attempted to outlaw sea level rise by preventing the use of sea level rise data in any government planning efforts (after a 2010 study predicted a rise of three feet this century). The cost in terms(...)

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James Fallows and Jimmy Carter

Author's book draw on virtues of a president he served -- and slammed

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JAMES FALLOWS WAS President Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter in the 1970s. Two generations before him, FDR’s advisor and speechwriter Samuel Rosenman (who coined the term “New Deal”) declared that aides to a president should serve with a “passion for anonymity.” Fallows helped to break that mold, leaving the White House to become a public critic(...)

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Civic grit

Civic grit

Reasons to be hopeful about America’s future, from unlikely places off the beaten path

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BOOK REVIEW — Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows (Pantheon Books, 413 pages) PEOPLE WHO LIVE in cosmopolitan Boston and only venture beyond the metropolis to visit the Cape in summer or ski in the north in winter might assume that nothing much of interest(...)

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What’s Walsh’s real end game?

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What’s Walsh’s real end game?

New Long Island Bridge to treatment campus is unlikely Boston's goal

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MARTY WALSH DID NOT BECOME the mayor of the City of Boston by being a stupid man. When anyone – anyone – looks at the cost-benefit analysis of rebuilding the Long Island Bridge instead of improving ferry service to that island, it is quickly obvious that it is a terrible investment, a terrible deal for taxpayers, and(...)

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