The Health 202: The FDA has until Thursday to respond to demands to ban menthol cigarettes Alexandra Ellerbeck
with Paige Winfield Cunningham It’s been a dozen years since Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate the contents of cigarettes. So far, the agency has never used it.
But that could change this week. The FDA has until Thursday to respond to a petition demanding a ban on menthol cigarettes. Past efforts to ban them have failed, but advocates say this time may be different and could even be the start of more aggressive tobacco regulation by the government.
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Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) gets a lot of upside out of being a real estate investment trust (REIT), not least because it is investing in a market that nearly everyone expects to grow: healthcare spending. The company buys hospitals and leases them back with long-term, triple-net leases.
In 1970, healthcare costs were responsible for 6.9% of the gross domestic product in the U.S. By 2019, that percentage had risen to 17.7%. Of those numbers, hospital and physician services represented half of the spending. According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for healthcare spending is expected to be 5.4% through 2028, reaching $6.2 trillion by then, with healthcare expenditures taking up 19.7% of the GDP in 2028.
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With the trillions of dollars pumped in to prop up the economy
in 2020, and with a substantial portion of that money focused on
health care, we can expect a surge of health care litigation in
2021 addressing false claims and other fraud.
The US Department of Justice reported recovering only $2.2
billion from both settlements and judgments in False Claims Act
(FCA) investigations and litigation in 2020. This was the lowest
level since 2008 and almost $1 billion less than what was recovered
in 2019. Of that, the vast majority of recoveries came from the
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