The starting point for negotiations with drug companies on prescription prices could end up being the too-high prices patients already live with.
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Born to Die
Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants.
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Democratic Child Care Bill Keeps Work Requirements
At a time when Democrats are savaging House Republicans for expanding work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP, their signature child care bill also contains them.
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Republicans’ War on Their Own Public Health
Tens of thousands of conservatives died because they believed anti-vaccine lies. Now the GOP is bringing back measles and polio.
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Abortion Care in North Carolina Under Peril
A party switch has opened the door to further reproductive restrictions in the state.
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Big Retail Surveils Food Stamp User Data
SNAP beneficiaries can now shop online. Payday lenders are hoping to advertise to them.
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Unhealthy Competition
How creeping privatization of health care services for military veterans is not helping patients or their caregivers.
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Nursing Home Bosses Lavish Campaign Money on Florida
Lawmakers, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, have been enriched by a powerful crop of out-of-state owners seeking carve-outs for their industry.
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Insurance Lobbyists Force Government to Heel on Medicare Advantage
But advocates see an opening for reining in the worst abuses of the program.
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India Decides Fighting Tuberculosis Is More Important Than Johnson & Johnson’s Profits
The country shot down a patent extension on a critical TB drug.
