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        "uri": "/2021/08/26/delta-air-lines-health-insurance-surcharge-is-it-legal-and-five-other-questions-you-may-be-asking/",
        "title": "Delta Air Lines' health insurance surcharge: Is it legal, and five other questions you may be asking",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "Expert Opinion",
        "prettyDate": "August 26, 2021",
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        "summary": "Delta's penalty, which amounts to $2,400 a year, could toe some lines and may be vulnerable to legal challenge.",
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        "uri": "/2021/08/03/employers-tie-health-insurance-rates-to-vaccine-status/",
        "title": "Employers: Tie health insurance rates to vaccination status?",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "August 03, 2021",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "While the ACA prohibits adjusting insurance costs for anything but a few limited factors, there is an exception for employers.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2020/02/24/the-u-s-needs-to-get-out-in-front-of-the-coronavirus-threat-max-nisen/",
        "title": "The U.S. needs to get out in front of the coronavirus threat: Max Nisen",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "February 24, 2020",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        ],
        "summary": "Stay calm and don't shake hands. (Fist bumps are probably okay.) And maybe fund the CDC better, improve public health awareness, and stop panicking in the stock market.",
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        "uri": "/2019/08/15/why-employers-should-fear-medicare-expansion/",
        "title": "Why employers shouldn't fear Medicare expansion",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "August 15, 2019",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "authors": [
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        "summary": "Companies' strategies to rein in health care spending historically have not amounted to much. Is it time to try something more drastic?",
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        "uri": "/2019/06/04/cvs-banks-on-retail-clinics-for-future-health-care-growth/",
        "title": "CVS banks on retail clinics for future health care growth",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "June 04, 2019",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "The company started the year by opening three HealthHub locations and plans to open 1,500 locations by the end of 2021.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2019/03/13/unitedhealth-will-begin-passing-drug-discounts-to-plan-participants/",
        "title": "UnitedHealth will begin passing drug discounts to plan participants",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "March 13, 2019",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "OptumRX, UnitedHealth's PBM, will mandate that all new employer health-plan clients pass the drug discounts it obtains directly to plan participants.",
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        "uri": "/2019/02/12/johnson-johnson-to-start-listing-drug-prices-in-tv-ads/",
        "title": "Johnson & Johnson to start listing drug prices in TV ads",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "February 12, 2019",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "In a mitigating tactic, the company's planned price disclosure will also include an estimate of what typical patients actually pay for drugs.",
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        "uri": "/2019/01/31/can-anthems-in-house-pbm-compete-with-cigna-and-aetna/",
        "title": "Can Anthem's in-house PBM compete with Cigna and Aetna?",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "News",
        "prettyDate": "January 31, 2019",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "Building a drug-price negotiating unit from scratch isn't trivial, and the company is doing it on a very tight timeline. ",
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      {
        "uri": "/2018/12/31/quick-take-key-themes-affecting-pharma-in-2019/",
        "title": "Quick take: Key themes affecting pharma in 2019",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "Expert Opinion",
        "prettyDate": "December 31, 2018",
        "timeToRead": "6 minute",
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        "summary": "Here are a few areas I'll be keeping an eye on in the pharmacy industry next year.",
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      {
        "uri": "/2018/11/29/trumps-pharma-reforms-will-face-resistance-from-se/",
        "title": "Trump's pharma reforms will face resistance from seniors",
        "byline": "Max Nisen",
        "kicker": "Commentary",
        "prettyDate": "November 29, 2018",
        "timeToRead": "4 minute",
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        "summary": "The pharma lobby is one thing. The potential political muscle of the senior set is quite another.",
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