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Senate Dems reach draft deal to extend ACA premiums, lower drug costs

Healthcare Dive

The bill, part of a more than $300 billion package, extends enhanced ACA premiums and allows Medicare to negotiate select prescription drug prices starting in 2026.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Health Populi

health citizens support attacking COVID-19 through testing, federal support for vaccines, expanding telehealth, expanding the ACA, and reforming (lowering) prescription drug prices. trillion American Rescue Plan budget. Ultimately, U.S. For the details, check out the post on the Medecision site.

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Growing Support for Medicare for All – But Do People Really Understand What It Means?

Health Populi

Still, the data comes as former Vice President Joe Biden — who has spurned a single-payer system in favor of expanding the ACA with a public option — continues holding tight to his 13-point advantage over Sen. Here’s another Medicare myth uncovered: 1 in 4 Americans think Medicare is part of the ACA/Obamacare.

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Healthcare Policies We Can Agree On: Pre-Existing Conditions, Drug Prices, and PillPack – the June 2018 KFF Health Tracking Poll

Health Populi

Another unifying health care issue is prescription drug prices, which KFF has tracked for several years. Most voters across party have told previous KFF polls they believe in more government regulation or intervention on drug costs. Health Populi’s Hot Points: What most U.S.

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Americans’ Top Sources of Stress are Money, Money, Money and Family

Health Populi

This latter point was emphasized in the survey noting that 71% of Americans said that drug prices were too high; 78% of people agreed that the government should be permitted to negotiate/regulate prescription drug prices.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Health Care Trends Toward Progress in Hawai‘i Hawaii health system names COO IDAHO Cyberattack forces Idaho hospital to send ambulances elsewhere Idaho Free Clinics rally for Idahoans losing Medicaid Idaho hospitals hit by cyberattack, closed clinic National grant puts $600,000 toward Payette community’s health care needs Idaho Statewide HIE Changes (..)