by Jordana Choucair | Oct 29, 2021 | D.C. News
The White House released a new framework outlining what will be in a $1.75 trillion spending package. The framework would extend enhanced ACA through 2025 and make ACA subsidies available to people in the Medicaid coverage gap in states that have chosen not to expand....
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 29, 2021 | D.C. News
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone and Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden both told reporters that drug prices are still being discussed. According to Wyden, there is agreement on two pieces of the proposal – a rebate when drugmakers raise prices faster than...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 29, 2021 | D.C. News
The Senate confirmed former West Virginia health official Dr. Rahul Gupta to serve as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, making him the first physician in the drug czar role. He’ll be tasked with managing the country’s opioid crisis...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 29, 2021 | D.C. News
The Department of Health and Human Services proposed nixing a Trump-era “sunset rule” that would have given the agency five years to review all of its previous regulations. Any rule that didn’t get reviewed within five years would be pulled. The rule also...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 28, 2021 | D.C. News
Senate negotiators are nearing an agreement on a framework for a $2 trillion budget reconciliation package. However, a handful of issues – including disagreements over expanding Medicare benefits, empowering the federal government to negotiate lower drug prices, and a...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 27, 2021 | D.C. News
Democrats are uniting around a plan to offer a few years of subsidized private insurance to low-income people in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid. The move is an effort to fill the coverage gap in those states that has been a major piece of the...
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