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Op-Ed: Joel Thayer: The drug middlemen settled, but the conflict of interest remains.
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (589+ words) Washington Reporter The Federal Trade Commission has now extracted settlements from all three of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers. Express Scripts agreed in February, CVS Caremark followed, and Optum Rx has a proposed consent order pending. The agency projects…...
EXCLUSIVE: Republicans target ‘Big Insurance’ in ads as polling shows opening against Democrats
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (590+ words) Republican candidates across the country are increasingly taking aim at big health insurance companies in campaign ads, turning an industry traditionally targeted by Democrats into a growing GOP affordability message ahead of the midterms. The strategy is showing up in…...
Op-Ed: Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle: Healthcare is expensive enough. We shouldn’t be paying twice.
1+ week, 3+ day ago (497+ words) Because the American healthcare system is so complex, there are many reasons our healthcare is so expensive. But one of them is remarkably simple. In some cases, we’re effectively paying twice for the same thing. Consider a patient who visits…...
EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s IRA price control architects under scrutiny as Republicans hammer health care affordability challenges
1+ week, 5+ day ago (669+ words) As Republicans make health care affordability a midterm issue, new scrutiny is falling on a senior Biden administration official who helped build a Medicare overhaul that was sold as a major money saver, but is now projected to increase federal…...
EXCLUSIVE: “Pro-Life” Nebraska Senate hopeful Dan Osborn paid his daughter tied to radical abortion shock-art group with campaign cash
1+ week, 5+ day ago (415+ words) Dan Osborn, a purportedly independent Senate candidate with extensive ties to national Democrats, is walking a fine line in a politically conservative state when it comes to abortion. While Osborn tells voters he is a “personally pro-life” independent, he “quietly…...
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Barrasso: Democrats want to bring back taxes on Social Security
1+ week, 5+ day ago (522+ words) Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) is hammering Democrats over their opposition to Republican tax cuts that effectively ended federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for nearly nine in 10 seniors. “Democrats continue to think that they know how to…...
Op-Ed: William S. Smith: Rebate model could fix health safety net program’s duplicate discount problem
3+ week, 2+ day ago (231+ words) Because 340B hospitals, their contract pharmacies, and Medicaid agencies and their Medicaid managed care plans benefit financially from duplicate discounts, sometimes paying nothing for their drugs, very little has been done to prevent these consistent violations. There is, however, an easy…...