As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prepare to implement the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls for prescription drugs, the agency has been hit with lawsuits from both Merck and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce alleging violation of their constitutional rights. While we cannot know whether these challenges will prevail, the effects of this law on patients are easily predictable: higher launch prices, fewer cures and worse health.
Merck’s lawsuit centers o...
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Biden’s drug price controls are disastrous — are they also unconstitutional?
As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) prepare to implement the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls for prescription drugs, the agency has been hit with lawsuits from both Merck and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce alleging violation of their constitutional rights. While we cannot know whether these challenges will prevail, the effects of this law on patients are easily predictable: higher launch prices, fewer cures and worse health.
Merck’s lawsuit centers o...
Democrats call for DACA health care expansion
A group of 80 Democratic lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to implement a proposal to expand access to federal health care benefits for people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In a letter led by Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.), Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Reps. Joaquín Castro (Texas) and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), the Democrats asked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure t...
Christie booed for criticizing Trump
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Biden to sign executive order to expand birth control access
President Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at increasing access to contraception and family planning.
The order is part of the administration's efforts to promote reproductive health care and comes one day ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It will also be the administration's only policy response to mark the anniversary.
While the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizatio...
Biden to sign executive order to expand birth control access
President Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at increasing access to contraception and family planning.
The order is part of the administration's efforts to promote reproductive health care and comes one day ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It will also be the administration's only policy response to mark the anniversary.
While the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizatio...
Judge suspends Wyoming’s ban on abortion pills amid lawsuit
A federal judge paused Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation ban on medicated abortion pills on Thursday, citing an ongoing lawsuit over the law’s constitutionality.
The ban, signed by the state’s governor in March, was set to be implemented on July 1.
The law concerns two abortion pills, one of which, mifepristone, had its FDA approval challenged earlier this year. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mifepristone can still be distributed pending that challenge.<...
Judge suspends Wyoming’s ban on abortion pills amid lawsuit
A federal judge paused Wyoming’s first-in-the-nation ban on medicated abortion pills on Thursday, citing an ongoing lawsuit over the law’s constitutionality.
The ban, signed by the state’s governor in March, was set to be implemented on July 1.
The law concerns two abortion pills, one of which, mifepristone, had its FDA approval challenged earlier this year. In April, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that mifepristone can still be distributed pending that challenge.<...
Judge strikes down Florida Medicaid policy excluding gender-affirming care
A Florida rule excluding gender-affirming health care from Medicaid coverage is unlawful and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, adding that the policy, which was enacted last year under the administration of Republican Gov. and presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, is based on politics rather than medicine.
Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which controls most of the state’s Medicaid program, in August adopted a rule barring trans...
Federal judge blocks Indiana gender-affirming health care ban
A federal judge on Friday prevented Indiana’s gender-affirming health care ban from taking effect, granting a temporary reprieve to transgender youths and families seeking care in Indiana.
Indiana’s Senate Bill 480, which would have taken effect July 1, bars health care providers in the state from administering gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed it April 5, one day after he called the legislation “clear ...