Thursday, January 20, 2022: D.C. News

President Joe Biden said Democrats will likely have to break up their roughly $2 trillion social spending bill, which includes multiple health care provisions, in order to get it through Congress. Biden also defended his COVID-19 response, saying that his...

Thursday, January 20, 2022: Mental Health

Third Horizon Strategies’ latest blog highlights Tym Rourke’s and Sara Howe’s predictions regarding how payers, states, and communities will continue to shift resources to better address health equity and social determinants of health. “The pandemic...

Thursday, January 20, 2022: Life Sciences

A new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office found that savings from generics have driven average prescription prices down in Medicare and Medicaid. Between 2018 and 2019, the average price for a generic prescription fell in both program while the use jumped from...

Thursday, January 20, 2022: Life Sciences

A group of 27 generic drugmakers agreed to manufacture Merck & Co.’s COVID-19 antiviral pill in an effort to supply more than 100 lower-income countries with the treatment. According to the United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool, the drug should be...

Thursday, January 20, 2022: Life Sciences

Two Democratic Senators called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate reports of “price gouging and scams” tied to at-home COVID-19 tests. In a letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan, Senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal said that the agency...