Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2020

consumers have been supportive of government negotiation for drug pricing since well before the COVID-19 pandemic. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll covered here in Health Populi demonstrated support across party ID back in October 2019. bn between 2019 and 2015 (Part D) and from $4.8 bn for Medicaid.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

First, it would give the federal government the ability to negotiate prices of some drugs purchased by Medicare beneficiaries, a tool that has long been opposed by the drug industry. Never before have we been able to negotiate prescription drug prices. “It’s historic. According to KFF, 1.5

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While we have a divided government via split legislature, one winner in the 2018 midterm outcome is Medicaid. In these midterms, governors flipped from Republican to Democrat in Kansas, Maine and Wisconsin, all of whom promised to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act. pharma costs on reference pricing].

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Sanders, noting his call for big new government benefits like universal health care through Medicare for All and free college tuition. Senator Harris, too, mentioned government benefits like free college and Medicare for All as her health plan preference. Lester Holt began with Sen. “We don’t have a health care system in the U.S.

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