Budget Battles
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Democrats Say They’re Ready to Rescue Mike Johnson
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‘A Good Day for America’: Biden Signs $95 Billion Foreign Aid Bill
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Senate Advances $95 Billion Foreign Aid Package
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GOP Infighting Continues as Senate Heads for Aid Vote
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News Alert: House Approves $95 Billion Aid Package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
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Dems Help Save Johnson's Aid Package for Israel, Ukraine
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Johnson Rejects a Plan to Save His Speakership
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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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New Coronavirus Czar: $10 Billion Is Just a ‘Down Payment’ for Pandemic Funding
Dr. Ashish Jha took over Monday as the White House coronavirus response coordinator, replacing Jeff Zients. Jha, appointed by President Biden last month, started his tenure by making the rounds of...
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Covid Vaccinations Have Saved 2.2 Million US Lives: Report
By Michael RaineyAs the U.S. closes in on 1 million deaths from Covid-19, a new analysis finds that the death toll would have been far higher in the absence of vaccines. A report from The Commonwealth Fund, a non-...
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Medicare Finalizes Plan to Limit Coverage of Controversial New Alzheimer’s Drug
Medicare on Thursday finalized a decision to severely limit coverage of a costly and controversial new Alzheimer’s drug, announcing that it would only cover the new treatment for patients who receive...
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Covid Takes Another Bite Out of US Life Expectancy
By Michael RaineyLife expectancy in the U.S. dropped again in 2021, according to a new analysis that tallies the terrible toll Covid-19 continued to take last year. Across all groups, life expectancy fell to 76.60...
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Poor People Died from Covid at Twice the Rate of the Rich, Study Finds
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans living in the poorest counties died at twice the rate of those living in the richest counties, according to a report released this week by the Poor People’s...