The so-called ‘pill penalty’ fix is a corporate favor designed to increase the period where prescriptions are immune from price negotiations.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Banks Approve of Republicans Increasing Bank Fees
A Biden-era CFPB rule limiting overdraft fees is under challenge, and lawmakers used bank lobbyists for their testimonials.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
UnitedHealth’s K Street Army
The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Pam Bondi and the Pay-to-Play Justice System
The entire history of the attorney general nominee reveals a comfort with basing prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president.
Posted inPolitics
Trump at the Lobbyist Trough
The unifying thread of the team around the president is that they sell their services to corporations for money.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Tech Industry Uses Push Poll to Stop California AI Bill
The legislation is likely to pass, but Gov. Gavin Newsom is being lobbied hard by Silicon Valley to oppose it, using what can be seen as deceptive tactics.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech’s Governing Blueprint
The Chamber of Progress, which held a briefing panel this week at the DNC, contrasts with Kamala Harris’s early approach on key issues.
Posted inPolitics
The Convention Nobody Gets to See
Many of the corporate-sponsored events, and even some that aren’t, are locked down to the press.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will Google’s Monopoly Be Vanquished?
The path includes appeals challenges, a judicially ordered remedy phase, and a change in the presidency.