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Daily Archives: January 4, 2024
Lowering Drug Prices at the top of HHS Agenda this Year
The costs of prescription drugs and working to lower them will be among the top health issues facing the Biden administration in 2024, with Supreme Court activity, drugmaker lawsuits, and other hurdles expected to compli ...
The U.S. Health Care Spending Exceeds Six Countries Combined
According to a report in StatNews, “… the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care c ...
Medicare Transparency Bill Passes in the House
One of the few things the House of Representatives managed to accomplish in 2023 was the passage on December 11 of H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, a bipartisan healthcare bill that would impose new tra ...
Important Legislation Congress Failed to Pass
As has become usual in recent years, Congress failed to pass the legislation needed to fund the federal government for the new fiscal year 2024. They didn’t pass much else, either. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy rebuked ...