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Weeks before the CMS is releasing a list of drugs eligible for price negotiations, the Justice Department filed a motion, contesting the Chamber's move to block the program, claiming the pause would harm the public.

With 19 states now offering state programs after three states passed legislation this year, these retirement programs are bridging the gap for many small businesses struggling to afford the administrative burdens.

Reams of research show that the level of hospital consolidation today — 75% of markets are now considered highly consolidated — decreases patient choice, impedes innovation, erodes quality, and raises prices.

While 70% of hospitals are compliant with the federal price transparency rule, the feds have sent more than 900 warning letters to hospitals about their posted data, with four hospitals fined for non-compliance.

While Biden's proposed regs on short-term plans are likely to go into effect this year or early next, the House-passed CHOICE Arrangement Act – a "cash for coverage" option — is unlikely to win favor in the Senate.

Since many people don't use statins, vaccines, or COVID-19 therapies, and many choose to smoke cigarettes and eat the wrong food, life expectancy has dropped in the U.S., says the FDA commissioner.

Since 2013, Congress has voted 13 times to postpone billions in Medicaid funding cuts prescribed by the Affordable Care Act, siding with hospitals over their claims that losing the money would hinder the delivery of care.

For the health system to endure, physician groups and hospital systems might look more closely at the bills they send patients and the collection tactics they use or health insurers might reconsider the HDHPs they sell.