Tag: President Donald Trump

March 29, 2019

A federal judge has struck down a small-business health insurance plan widely touted by President Donald Trump, marking the second setback in a week for the administration’s health care initiatives. U.S. District Judge John D. Bates wrote in his opinion […]

March 21, 2018

Drug prices are still climbing despite calls to lower them, Axios reports. President Donald Trump has repeatedly chastised the pharmaceutical industry, even accusing them of “getting away with murder.” But since he took office, drugmakers have hiked list prices on […]

February 16, 2018

Read President Donald Trump’s budget proposal and you’ll find another repeal of former President Barack Obama’s health care law. The budget, unveiled Monday, eliminates the health care law’s premium subsidies, rolls back its Medicaid expansion and caps Medicaid spending — […]

January 19, 2018

Donald Trump raged against the pharmaceutical industry as a candidate. He accused drug companies of “getting away with murder” as president-elect. But he hasn’t done too much to tackle prices as president — yet. Trump has occasionally criticized high drug […]

November 27, 2017

Some 50,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose in 2016, according to government estimates. That’s 137 people a day, or roughly one death every 12 minutes from prescription painkillers, heroin or the synthetic opioid fentanyl. You can’t put a price […]

November 20, 2017

The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or roughly half a trillion dollars. In an analysis to be released Monday, the Council of Economic Advisers says the figure is more […]

November 8, 2017

(Bloomberg)—House Republicans are edging closer to accepting President Donald Trump’s suggestion to combine their tax legislation with a repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that requires all individuals purchase health insurance, according to a person who’s helping to draft […]

October 13, 2017

President Donald Trump is inviting congressional Democrats to “call me to fix” America’s health care system, as he prepares an order ceasing federal subsidy payments to health insurers. In a pre-dawn post on his Twitter account Friday, the president reiterated […]