{"id":622698,"date":"2023-03-27T17:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/27\/a-400-price-increase-is-preposterous-what-we-heard-this-week\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T22:50:02","slug":"a-400-price-increase-is-preposterous-what-we-heard-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/27\/a-400-price-increase-is-preposterous-what-we-heard-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A 400% Price Increase Is Preposterous&#8217;: What We Heard This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<nav>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\" tabindex=\"15.1\" itemprop=\"articleSection\">Opinion<\/a><br \/>\n      <span>><\/span><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\" tabindex=\"15.2\">What We Heard This Week<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/nav>\n<h2>\u2014 Quotable quotes heard by <em>MedPage Today<\/em>&#8216;s reporters<\/h2>\n<p>\n            by <span itemprop=\"author\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"name\">MedPage  Today Staff<\/span><br \/>\n         <\/span><br \/>\n            <span itemprop=\"contributing\"><\/span><br \/>\n                    <span itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"March 26, 2023\"><br \/>\n          March 26, 2023<br \/>\n        <\/span>\n          <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"js-main-content-region\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/articleBody\" itemid=\"#main-content-region\">\n<p>&#8220;Why do you need this much money? A 400% price increase is preposterous.&#8221;  &#8212;  Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) pressing Moderna&#8217;s CEO to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19vaccine\/103678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lower the price of its COVID-19 vaccine (Spikevax)<\/a> during a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the way that medicine should be practiced.&#8221;  &#8212;  Diana Nole, of Microsoft&#8217;s Nuance Healthcare, discussing a fully-automatic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/103713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clinical documentation app for patient visits<\/a> powered by GPT-4 that will be released later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do our biases and our decisions impact the outcomes and the treatments that patients get?&#8221;  &#8212;  Mary Byrn, PhD, RN, of Loyola University Chicago, discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/obgyn\/pregnancy\/103669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">differences in perinatal care<\/a> some Black women receive compared with white women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A decade from now it&#8217;s going to be 30 times more powerful  &#8212;  that&#8217;s the difference between a bicycle and a racing car.&#8221;  &#8212;  Robert Pearl, MD, of Stanford University in California, commenting on how the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/103616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">generative artificial intelligence&#8217;s impact<\/a> on healthcare has been significantly understated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vast majority of applicants simply aren&#8217;t in a position to rule out half of the programs in the country  &#8212;  unless they&#8217;re willing to choose a different career path.&#8221;  &#8212;  Bryan Carmody, MD, of Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, on how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/features\/103675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ob\/gyn residency remained a competitive specialty<\/a> this year despite less abortion access in parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an ideal time to provide postpartum contraception because patients are already there.&#8221;  &#8212;  Sarah Averbach, MD, of the University of California San Diego, inserting an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/obgyn\/generalobgyn\/103644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IUD at 2 to 4 weeks postpartum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s part of realizing that individual blaming is not productive for the people experiencing obesity.&#8221;  &#8212;  Elaine Waxman, MPP, PhD, senior fellow at Urban Institute, on how living in areas with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/endocrinology\/obesity\/103641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">higher density of food stores that carry less healthy options<\/a> was linked with higher obesity prevalence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/what-we-heard\/103714\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Christeen Mayoral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion &gt; What We Heard This Week \u2014 Quotable quotes heard by MedPage Today&#8217;s reporters by MedPage Today Staff March 26, 2023 &#8220;Why do you need this much money? A 400% price increase is preposterous.&#8221; &#8212; Senator Mike Braun (R-Ind.) pressing Moderna&#8217;s CEO to lower the price of its COVID-19 vaccine (Spikevax) during a hearing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":622699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25663,4759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-increase","category-price"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}