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The high cost of prescription drugs is among consumers' top health policy issues, according to public opinion polls.

May 19, 2021 6:03 AM By Brandon Lee Senate Republicans are calling on top Biden administration officials to walk back support of an international plan to waive Covid-19 vaccine IP protections, calling the decision a “giveaway” to China and India that will only promote “vaccine nationalism.” Countries like China that regularly steal U.S. intellectual property began urging the World Trade Organization to waive IP rights “almost immediately after these vaccines...

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April 22, 2021 6:12 AM By Brandon Lee President Joe Biden called on employers to use a tax credit to provide paid time off to workers to get vaccinated and for businesses to do more to boost the inoculation effort as the U.S. seeks to get shots in more arms. Biden touted the U.S. achieving its goal of giving 200 million vaccine shots in his first 100 days in office, while also pivoting to a new phase of the campaign by calling on businesses to make vaccination as accessible as possi...

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Picking up the pace of undoing Trump policies The Biden administration is speeding up the pace of efforts to undo Trump administration health policies. The two most recent: overturning a ban on fetal tissue research funded by the National Institutes of Health and canceling a last-minute extension of a Medicaid waiver for Texas. (KHN is tracking changes to Trump health policies with an interactive tool you can see here.) Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans on Cap...

April 16, 2021 6:10 AM By Brandon Lee Lawmakers seeking to lower drug costs should take a comprehensive approach rather than focus solely on manufacturers’ pricing practices—a strategy that’s only created disparities in the marketplace, policy analysts say. Drug pricing will come back to the forefront of policy discussions in the coming months as Covid-19 vaccines become more readily available and lawmakers turn to other issues. But many of the roughly two dozen bills...

March 5, 2021 7:01 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee Senate Democrats face a gauntlet of Republican attempts to rein in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package in a marathon session of votes that will extend the timetable for passage into the weekend. Democratic leaders plan to rough it through the amendment process and emerge with a bill that gets the votes of all 50 Democrats without risking a revolt from progressives in the House, which will have to agree o...

Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine found effective before FDA review

February 25, 2021 6:06 AM By Brandon Lee Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, assured lawmakers yesterday that as HHS secretary he’d build on the existing private sector insurance scheme in the U.S. rather than push for Medicare for All. When he was a member of the House, Becerra championed the federal government-operated health-care program that would cover all Americans, in a shift that would effectively wipe out th...

Word Count: 1134 Biden’s team lacks a confirmed Health and Human Services secretary and surgeon general. And the president has yet to name permanent heads for the Food and Drug Administration, which approves vaccines, or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers the government’s two large health programs for elderly, disabled and low-income people. Other roles are also unfilled. The holes threaten to hamper the U.S.’s rebound from the virus and undermine one of th...