{"id":16142,"date":"2021-09-17T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=16142"},"modified":"2021-09-17T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:24:38","slug":"great-ideas-should-medicare-be-covering-unproven-drugs-the-controversy-that-exposes-big-flaws-in-our-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=16142","title":{"rendered":"Great Ideas: Should Medicare Be Covering Unproven Drugs? The Controversy that Exposes Big Flaws in Our Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test-bidi=\"\">On June 7, the F.D.A approved the use of the controversial Alzheimer\u2019s treatment Aduhelm. This led to a backlash from many Alzheimer\u2019s experts, who say that evidence for the drug\u2019s effectiveness is limited. Now Medicare must choose whether to cover the drug, which has a sky-high cost. The decision raises a host of big-picture questions about what we pay for \u2013 and what care we give \u2013 particularly to older Americans.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" data-test-bidi=\"\">Joshua B. Gordon is the Director of Health Policy for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He explains why Medicare is now in an unwinnable position, and how the government should work around this set of controversial questions to try to fix the larger problems in the healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; background: transparent;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/should-medicare-be-covering-unproven-drugs-the\/id1552624148?i=1000535455717\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 7, the F.D.A approved the use of the controversial Alzheimer\u2019s treatment Aduhelm. This led to a backlash from many Alzheimer\u2019s experts, who say that evidence for the drug\u2019s effectiveness is limited. Now Medicare must choose whether to cover the drug, which has a sky-high cost. The decision raises a host of big-picture questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beyondpolitics"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/qtq80-jkPJoj.jpeg?fit=2160%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16143,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions\/16143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}