Congress moves to avoid government shutdown, sparks revolt in GOP House For the first time in history, a sitting Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has been removed. Eight Republican House members joined all Democrats in voting to unseat former...
More lawsuits filed against the Inflation Reduction Act, while Congressional Democrats push additional reformsJoining PhRMA, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Merck and Bristol Myers Squibb, pharma companies JanssenJ&J and Astellas filed July lawsuits against...
State Medicaid programs struggle with post-PHE redetermination process; Estimated 1.6M already disenrolledWith the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) in May, state Medicaid officials have begun the enormous task of redetermining who is eligible for...
US Debt Limit Suspended into 2025; Neither Side Gets Everything It WantedPresident Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) both claimed victory last week after Congress approved a 99-page bill that suspends the nation’s debt limit into 2025. The legislation...
CMS Issues Guidance on How to Handle Prescription Drug Prices that Increase Higher than Inflation The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), touted several times by President Biden in last week’s “State of the Union” address, requires prescription drug companies to pay...
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