by Jordana Choucair | Jul 27, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Commonwealth Fund released a new analysis projecting that early fall COVID-19 vaccination campaign could prevent as many as 160,000 more deaths and avert between $63 billion and $109 billion in direct medical costs. As immunity from earlier vaccinations or...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 27, 2022 | Newsroom, Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration released a memo indicating that it will cost nearly $7 billion to mount a response to the monkeypox outbreak. The administration did not submit a formal request for the funds, which would cover tests, vaccines, and treatments. Republicans have...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 26, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Biden Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will restore health care nondiscrimination rules on gender identity and sexual orientation. The regulations will reinstate Affordable Care Act (ACA) nondiscrimination...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 26, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The House Education and Labor Committee will markup a bill Wednesday intended to feed more children in communities with high poverty rates. The bill would reauthorize a child nutrition program that expired in 2015 and lower the criteria for a school or school district...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 26, 2022 | Life Sciences
A federal appeals court in New York upheld a lower-court ruling against Pfizer Inc. that said the drugmaker’s Direct Copay Assistance Program violated an anti-kickback law. The federal government had argued that Pfizer’s financial support for reimbursable...
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