by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 8, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
President Biden, as part of his budget set for release on Thursday, will propose raising and expanding a tax on Americans earning more than $400,000 as part of a series of efforts to extend the solvency of Medicare by 25 years and provide a degree of middle-class...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 3, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
The Federal Trade Commission has fined digital mental health care provider BetterHelp $7.8 million for sharing the personal health information of millions of consumers with advertisers like Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo, and Pinterest during a seven-year period. Under...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 2, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer announced Wednesday that he is launching an investigation into pharmacy benefit managers (PBM) and actions that increase health care costs for patients. Comer called for enhanced transparency in the PBM...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 1, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
Federal health advisers narrowly backed an experimental vaccine from Pfizer that could soon become the first shot to protect older adults against the respiratory illness known as RSV. The Food and Drug Administration panel voted 7-4 on two separate questions of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
The federal government is moving to require doctors to evaluate patients in person before writing prescriptions for some controlled medications, such as Adderall and OxyContin. The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Friday that it is seeking to revert rule...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 21, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
Two House committees, and potentially several more, are getting involved in investigating the origins of COVID, setting them up for a lot of overlap and even friction. What comes out of these COVID-origin investigations could have implications for federal funding of...
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