Budget Battles
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Johnson Rejects a Plan to Save His Speakership
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Johnson Defies Hardliners, Pushes Ahead With Foreign Aid Plan
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Facing Right-Wing Revolt, Johnson Says He Won't Resign
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Johnson Unveils Plan for Israel, Ukraine Aid
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Trump Throws Johnson a Lifeline: ‘He’s Doing a Very Good Job’
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Biden’s New Student Debt Relief Plan Would Cost $84 Billion: Analysis
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House Conservatives Deal a New Blow to Johnson
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Nearly 1 in 4 of Those Removed From Medicaid Now Uninsured
By Michael RaineyMillions of Americans have been removed from state-level Medicaid programs over the last year, following the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic and the return to pre-pandemic rules governing...
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Biden Touts Healthcare Progress With Support From a Former Rival
President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders joined forced on Wednesday to promote the administration’s efforts to lower healthcare costs and prescription drug prices, an issue that the White House...
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Study Raises Questions About Ozempic Cost as Medicare Spending Soars
Some widely used diabetes and weight loss drugs could be profitably manufactured for far less than they currently cost, according to a new study. The analysis, published in JAMA Network Open by...
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Drugmakers Push Back Against Price Negotiations
By Michael RaineyMajor pharmaceutical firms are fighting a new federal program that empowers the government to negotiate lower prices for drugs that are widely prescribed in the Medicare system. The Washington Post’s...
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Biden Proposes a $7.3 Trillion Budget for 2025
President Biden on Monday proposed a $7.3 trillion budget for fiscal year 2025 that seeks to lower the costs of prescription drugs, child care and housing while also cutting the deficit by $3...
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UnitedHealth Faces New Justice Department Antitrust Probe: Reports
The Justice Department has reportedly launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest health insurer and a top manager of pharmacy benefits and physician groups...
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Americans’ Top Financial Worry: Healthcare
By Michael RaineyHealthcare issues claim the top spots in the list of things U.S. voters are “very” or “somewhat worried” about being able to afford, according to the latest tracking poll from the healthcare...
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New Record for Obamacare Signups
By Michael RaineyA record 20 million people have signed up for health care through the marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Wednesday. This marks...
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As Drug Prices Rise, $35 Cap on Insulin Takes Effect
By Michael RaineyPharmaceutical companies rang in the New Year as they usually do: raising prices on hundreds of medications. According to research cited by Reuters , companies like Pfizer, Sanofi and Takeda will...
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More Than Half of Children Losing Medicaid Coverage Live in Just 5 States
By Michael RaineyAs individual states continue to disenroll millions of people from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) now that pandemic-era suspension of participation guidelines has come to...
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Biden Tests Positive for Covid: 3 Takeaways
The White House announced Thursday that President Joe Biden had tested positive for the coronavirus and was experiencing “very mild symptoms.” The White House said Biden had begun taking Paxlovid,...
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Poll of the Day: 78% of Americans Say Covid Is Here to Stay
Nearly four in five Americans say that we won’t be fully rid of the coronavirus in their lifetimes, according to new survey results from the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index . At the same time, 29% say...
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The Fallout From Manchin’s Big Balk
President Joe Biden and Senate Democratic leaders are prepared to take whatever win they can get and move on. When Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) pulled the plug on Democrat’s Build Back Better package late...
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Dems Finalize Another Major Part of Their Economic Plan
Senate Democrats have reportedly finalized another key piece of the scaled-back economic plan they want to pass within weeks: A deal with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) that would tax high earners and use...
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Pharma Giant Saves Billions Thanks to 2017 GOP Tax Overhaul: Senate Report
By Michael RaineyAbbVie, an American biopharmaceutical company with a current market value of more than $260 billion, has sharply reduced its federal tax bill in recent years thanks to a provision in the 2017...