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New York Times

New Gene-Therapy Treatments Will Carry Whopping Price Tags
By GINA KOLATA September 11, 2017

Emily Whitehead, the get-go pediatric patient to have the gene-therapy handling Kymriah, which position her leukemia into remission. The handling has a $475,000 toll tag, raising questions close how patients together with insurers volition pay. ...
One drug, to forestall blindness inward those amongst a rare genetic disease, for example, is expected to cost betwixt $700,000 together with $900,000 per patient on average,..

Washington Post

The dam is breaking on Democrats’ comprehend of single-payer
By Aaron Blake September 12 at 9:39 AM

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) became the 4th co-sponsor of Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) “Medicare for all” health-care mouth Monday. In doing so, he joined Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) together with Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.). 
What produce those iv senators bring inward common? Well, they only locomote on to found iv of the 8 most probable 2020 Democratic presidential nominees, according to the handy listing I issue Friday. 
Update: Gillibrand only signed on to Sanders's "Medicare for all" bill. So at in i lawsuit five of my altitude 8 potential 2020 Democratic nominees bring at in i lawsuit come upwards out for the mouth -- earlier it is fifty-fifty introduced. "Health attention should hold upwards a right, non a privilege, together with thence I volition hold upwards joining Senator Bernie Sanders equally a cosponsor on his Medicare-for-All legislation," Gillibrand said.
Hint. Budget constraints? Hint 2: become ready to start making lots of dissonance if you lot desire treatment.

By the way, allow us sentinel for the crucial buzzword question. Does "single payer" hateful there is a unmarried payer that anyone can piece of job -- but you're costless to purchase together with sell your ain insurance on altitude of that, hopefully deregulated since at that topographic point is no postulate to regulate anymore, everyone has access to medicare for all? Or does "single payer" hateful at that topographic point is a unmarried payer that everyone must piece of job -- someone insurance, someone practice, only paying cash illegal, to cross-subsidize the system? I fearfulness the latter. We'll see.

The previous champion was stories on the same page inward WSJ, some ``self driving trucks coming soon'' together with ``shortage of truck drivers.'' I lost the link.

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