Healthcare & Drug Prices

7+ hour, 34+ min ago   (434+ words) The Clark Fork River flows for nearly 100 miles from its headwaters near Anaconda to its merger with the Big Blackfoot River in Bonner. Most of those miles have been biologically dead for over a century. The cause of death? It…...

6+ hour, 28+ min ago   (393+ words) and Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has said his free medical outreach and surgeries are part of his humanitarian efforts to provide accessible healthcare to the people. The first is the free surgical programme, which is…...

17+ hour, 42+ min ago   (283+ words) Ted Cruz is on the media interview path to implant his great wealth of knowledge as an attorney. Today, he was mocking blue states for not implementing universal healthcare unilaterally. Apparently, he is wholly unaware of the pitfalls: Image: Ted…...

9+ hour, 38+ min ago   (621+ words) One concept that was new to me was a definition of harm reduction by Dr. Alex Wodak of St. Vincent Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He said that HR are “Policies and practices which aim to reduce health, social, and economic…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (600+ words) We have received text from S. 5586: Ensuring Accurate Payments to Specialty Pharmacies Act. This bill was received on 2026-09-29, and currently has 1 cosponsor. This bill would change how Medicaid figures out what to pay certain pharmacies, especially specialty and other non-retail pharmacies....

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (479+ words) Americans prefer independent physician practices over corporate-owned hospitals by nearly a five-to-one margin. But despite patient preference, only 18% of physicians are practicing medicine in physician-owned settings, a new low amid high rates of hospital consolidation. Why is independent medicine disappearing,…...

3+ day, 6+ min ago   (382+ words) The list of private initiatives on P.E.I. continues to grow. For example, we believe that the web service Peidoctor.com violates the CHA. In Canada you either work in the public sector or the private sector. You cannot do both. That…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (520+ words) As Utah’s 20th attorney general, I learned to distinguish between policies that are politically popular and those that are lawful. That matters as lawmakers consider banning pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, from owning or operating pharmacies in Utah. This may seem…...

4+ day, 2+ min ago   (368+ words) Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A lobbying group that represents pharmaceutical manufacturers filed suit against the federal government on Oct. 7 over a program aimed at reducing the prices of drugs. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (550+ words) There's a lot about healthcare that Americans actually agree on. In our Common Ground project with KFF Health News, we're looking at issues with bipartisan backing. Blake Farmer at WPLN in Nashville reports on one thing that is uniting people…...