THE BAD NEWS ABOUT THE GOOD NEWS
The AARP Bulletin was in my mailbox when I got home from a county Dems meeting today, and I was pretty pleased to see the story on the cover. AARP membership is somewhere in the range of 40 million...
View ArticleBiden 'intensely' focused on continuing to lower drug costs
President Joe Biden is focused “intensely” on lowering health care costs, he said Wednesday before an audience of doctors and nurses a the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, drawing a sharp contrast with...
View ArticleDon't look now but Biden's signature economic policy is paying off
It’s been just over one year since President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, and there are already a lot of wins to celebrate.Tuesday, the Biden administration announced the first 10...
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Soaring Prescription Drug Prices and Senator Bernie Sanders’ Battle for Change
The United States is the richest nation in history, but its citizens have terrible access to healthcare, with the United States ranking 21st in the UNDP’s Human Development Index, and Americans paying...
View ArticleNew York announces plan to address major need: Medical debt relief
New York City announced on Monday that it will spend $18 million over three years to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt, affecting around half a million New Yorkers. The city will coordinate...
View ArticleDrugmakers OD on insane prices, incessant commercials
Prices for prescription drugs in America average almost three times as much as the prices paid in other major nations around the world. Adding insult to injury, the companies that set those prices are...
View ArticleSeniors could save $1.5B on prescriptions, thanks to Biden and Harris
Thanks to a provision of the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare is now allowed to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to lower drug costs. On Thursday, the...
View ArticleIt's just weird to describe Medicare's ability to negotiate drug prices as...
A group calling them Seniors for Better Care (Seniors4BetterCare dot com) takes issue with the “liberals in Congress” as they “push to expand the Biden-Harris price fixing agenda for prescription...
View ArticleHarris is Focused on reducing costs
Please enjoy the new campaign ad entitled Focused by the Harris-Walz campaign addressing the reason we’re paying too much for groceries and drugs. It’s a stark contrast to Project 2025 where the want...
View ArticleTrump promised a health care plan exactly 4 years ago—so where is it?
Exactly four years ago on Oct. 22, CBS News aired an interview with Donald Trump with "60 Minutes" reporter Leslie Stahl in which Trump promised he was going to release a "fully developed" health care...
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