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Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) on Friday said he could not support a health care plan backed by Senate Republican leaders as written, citing the proposed elimination of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion component.
Four conservative GOP senators on Thursday withheld their support for the Senate’s health care bill, saying it does not go far enough in overhauling the Affordable Care Act.
The Food and Drug Administration will hold a public meeting next month to investigate ways that federal regulations can be manipulated by brand-name drugmakers to impede generic competition from entering the market.
Opposition to the House-passed health care bill has nearly doubled among Republican voters since the end of April, according to Morning Consult polling.
Senate GOP leaders on Thursday plan to release a draft text of their bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, with the goal of bringing it to the floor for a vote next week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday.
Democrats plan to slow action on all Senate business, a move designed to protest their frustration with the GOP’s secretive efforts to pass legislation that would repeal and replace key parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Medical device makers will descend on Capitol Hill Thursday to lobby for the immediate extension of user fee agreements that fund the federal government’s review process for new medical products in the United States.
While lawmakers continue to disagree about the pharmaceutical industry’s role in soaring prices for medicines, there are bipartisan calls on Capitol Hill to probe the middlemen in the distribution chain: pharmacy benefit managers.
Regardless of political party, Americans tend to name tech giants as the employers they most admire, according to Morning Consult’s Most Admired Employers. But outside of tech, there are notable differences in which companies Democrats admire most versus Republicans.
Most voters agree that health insurance should cover contraceptives, but they’re split on whether an employer should be allowed to deny that coverage to female employees based on religious or moral grounds, according to a new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll.
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