by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Yesterday, senate health committee leaders Bernie Sanders and Bill Cassidy announced an agreement on a bipartisan package to increase access to generic drugs and increase transparency required of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).The package includes four bills that...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Biden administration have two vastly different estimates of the number of people who would become uninsured under the House Republicans’ debt bill, which would impose Medicaid work requirements. According to the CBO,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
A group of crisis experts and federal advisers conclude in a report out today that a lack of disaster preparedness and coordination led to an unraveling of the nation’s pandemic response and that the crisis exposed a “collective national incompetence in...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
The health insurance industry trade association AHIP launched a national advertising campaign with the goal of exposing pharmaceutical companies’ role in high drug costs, saying they deflect blame for their role onto other areas of the health system. The ads,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
The Biden administration on Saturday held its first “Nationwide Vaccination Day,” running vaccine pop-ups across 21 cities to boost vaccination rates in Black communities. The event was part of the White House’s broader “We Can Do This” COVID-19 Vaccine Public...
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