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The Gap Between the Trump Administration’s Promise of Reducing Rx Costs for Consumers and What People Really Want

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This is what happened to pharma stock prices on Friday after President Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar outlined their new policies focusing on prescription drug prices. Seniors and government programs over-paying for drugs. The graph is the Nasdaq U.S.

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Having Health Insurance Is a Social Determinant of Health: the implications of growing uninsured in the U.S.

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by the fourth quarter of 2017, up 1.3 2017 reversed advancements in health insurance coverage increases since the advent of the Affordable Care Act, and for the first time since 2014 no states’ uninsured rates fell. And there’s very little bidding on drugs.” uninsurance rate rose to 12.2%