Updated 5/26/2021 3:58 PM
The Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act purports to set requirements and establish programs to, among other things, regulate the prices of prescription drugs, health care costs, and insurance coverage.
Under HR3, the United States Department of Health and Human Services would then be in charge of negotiating the prices for certain drugs.
Concerns can be raised that governmental agencies or politicians may be acting with the intent of furthering their own agendas rather than in the best interests of the people.
The government does not need to start dictating the prices of medications or adding regulations; what is needed is for the government to enact policies that advance new medical developments especially in the middle of a global pandemic. America is a leading innovator in medicine and in the pharmaceutical industry, and the future of cutting edge medicines and treatments is at stake.
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This is part two of an article series detailing Dr. Fauci’s funding of Dual-Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Gain-of-function research through the NIH and NIAID. Part I can be found here.
In the early part of 2003, doctors around the world became baffled by thousands of cases of people with flu-like symptoms and pneumonia. Originally beginning in the Hong Kong region and then spreading around the world, this mystery illness was killing people faster than they could be diagnosed. When American businessman Johnny Chen became ill on a flight to Singapore, the plane diverted to Hanoi in Vietnam to rush Chen to the hospital. There, doctors were unable to stop the progression of Chen’s symptoms, and within hours of his arrival, Chen was dead. Over the course of the next several days, nearly 40 people would become ill at that hospital with 7 of those people dying from this new mysterious disease. That disease went on to infect people all over the worl
Students of the Class of 2021 at the Tulane University School of Medicine received their Doctor of Medicine and PhD degrees among family and friends at an in-person Commencement ceremony hosted at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Saturday, May 22. Dr. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was the keynote speaker at the ceremony and delivered her remarks virtually to the graduates and audience.
The School of Medicine ceremony was the last of Tulane’s in-person individual school Commencement ceremonies. Nine ceremonies for the other schools within Tulane were held from May 19-21 in Yulman Stadium. A virtual Unified University Commencement, which featured civil rights icon Ruby Bridges as the keynote speaker, was also held on Saturday, May 22.
Viemed Healthcare, Inc. a home medical equipment supplier and the nation’s largest independent provider of ventilation that provides post-acute respiratory care services is commenting on a final report and recommendation issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General regarding an audit by OIG of claims relating to one-hundred of the Company’s non-invasive .
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