News
Duluth News Tribune: Local View: Minnesota drug board could endanger access to new treatments
Today, we stand on the cusp of mind-boggling achievements in life sciences. Research into improving the lives of current and future survivors has long been in Minnesota’s DNA: Where else would you find the birthplace of Metronic and its life-saving technologies and, of course, the global powerhouse in health, Mayo Clinic?
Real Clear Health: Hands Off Our Cures
As a beneficiary of the robust miracle-making of American research and development, it always hits hard to see fellow survivors dismiss these gifts. Instead of championing breakthroughs, they embrace Rube Goldberg-style barriers to innovation. Breathlessly cursing the darkness and looking for more problems, instead of lighting a candle and finding common sense solutions.
WSJ: Opinion | Biden’s Tax and Rationing Plan for Medicare
President Biden on Tuesday rolled out a plan he says will shore up Medicare for decades, and we’re all supposed to believe the spin: looming insolvency averted. But this proposal is really a huge tax increase paired with prescription-drug rationing that does nothing to reform the health entitlement, and the tax ratchet is only beginning.
SFS’s Response to President Biden’s Celebration of the IRA In His SOTU
The nonpartisan patient advocacy group, Survivors for Solutions, started by a patient who has managed his MS for 30 years, provided a patient perspective on the State of the Union.
Remote Notes Interview: Communications Pro With MS Helping Others
Survivors for Solutions seeks to preserve and protect the medical innovations that give people hope. It strives to value, celebrate, and put a human face to the impact of scientific breakthroughs and the policy that supports them.
WSJ: The West’s Drug-Price Self-Sabotage
Democrats and even some Republicans want to import Europe’s drug price controls. So it’s worth observing how Europe’s raid on drug makers to bolster its ailing national health systems is reducing pharmaceutical investment and access to treatments.
Blog: The elemental importance of health, at least to me.
When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me there was nothing more important than health. Despite many colds, broken bones, and even when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 23, I couldn’t see why he stressed this point so vehemently.
Fox News Radio: Remaining Optimistic Through The Toughest Diagnosis
Janice Dean from Fox News Radio sits down with Founder and Chairman of Survivors for Solutions John Czwartacki to discuss his battle with Multiple Sclerosis and the work he does to protect medical innovations that give people hope across the nation.
SFS New Year’s Resolutions
It’s time for everyone’s resolutions, personal and professional. At Survivors For Solutions, the new year means bringing about a new kind of advocacy by patients for patients…
National Review: As Predicted, Patients Are Paying the Price for the Inflation Reduction Act’s Drug Reform
It has been about four months since President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and, already, the law’s drug-pricing rules have dealt a major blow to medical innovation…