Medicare has completed its first-ever negotiations with pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. Though only 10 drugs were part of the initial program, the Biden administration announced on Thursday that Medicare will save $6 billion and Americans will save $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs in the program’s first year. Congress for …
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This article is being published in partnership with the watchdog groupDocumented. Washington’s top pharmaceutical lobby oversaw the adoption of model legislation that would restrict voting access at the most recent meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is an influential organization that brings together state legislators, private-sector corporations, …
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Earlier this year, Rolling Stone reported that the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has employed the for-profit consulting firm helmed by Leonard Leo, the dark money maven and conservative Supreme Court architect, according to leaked records. Leo is best known for assembling the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority. As Donald Trump’s judicial …
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A majority of House Republican lawmakers recently released a budget plan that proposed once again banning Medicare from negotiating prescription drug prices — a move it justified with theatrical language and highly misleading data. The Republican Study Committee (RSC), which represents roughly 80 percent of House Republican lawmakers, accused President …
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President Joe Biden called out Big Pharma’s biggest scam during his State of the Union speech Thursday: charging Americans far more for the same drugs than patients in other countries. “I’m gonna get in trouble for saying it,” Biden said. “But if any of you want to get into Air …
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A state board in Colorado is working to make history by becoming the first in the country to cap the price of a drug it deems unaffordable. Amid an aggressive industry lobbying campaign, Colorado lawmakers are now weighing a poison pill measure that would blow up the plan and similar …
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Big Pharma has invested big money in the organizations planning what a MAGA policy agenda will look like in a new Trump administration. Not surprisingly, that policy playbook contains a major gift for the drug industry: a swift end to the Biden administration’s landmark program to allow Medicare to negotiate …
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Liza Drake is a single mother, a part-time stripper, and a full-time hustler. She has to be, given that she’s stuck in Florida in the year of our lord 2011, trying to figure out the next step for her and her daughter, Phoebe. On the plus side, Liza has grit, …
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What exactly is Noah Baumbach up to in White Noise? The movie, which received a very limited theatrical release ahead of premiering December 30 on Netflix, is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s canonical postmodern novel from 1985. It’s been an intriguing prospect since it was announced because the celebrated writer/director …
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On the afternoon of March 10th, 2018, Nan Goldin walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The award-winning photographer is no stranger to these institutions; prints of her groundbreaking work documenting everything from gay subcultures to the stifling legacy of suburbia to her own domestic abuse have graced their walls …
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