| 2019/10/03 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
Took executive action to strengthen Medicare and reform the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging seniors on their drugs.
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| 2019/9/19 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump signed an executive order to modernize Flu vaccines and help protect more Americans by promoting new technologies to improve vaccine manufacturing and effectiveness.
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| 2019/8/20 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
HHS awarded almost $107 million to 1,273 health centers across the U.S. in order to improve the quality of the centers’ health care services.
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| 2019/7/19 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
Drug overdose deaths dropped by 5% in 2019, the first decline in nearly three decades, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| 2019/7/18 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
The Trump Administration issued guidance expanding options for individuals with chronic conditions. High deductible plans can now cover products such as insulin, inhalers and statins pre-deductible.
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| 2019/6/13 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
The Departments of Labor, Treasury, and HHS issued a final regulation expanding the use of health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) which will benefit more than 11 million people.
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| 2019/6/11 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
The drug overdose death rate dropped slightly between 2017 and 2018, according to the new estimates, after two decades of near-constant upticks.
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| 2019/6/05 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
The consumer price index for prescription drugs decreased by .06% in 2018, the first year-end decline in 46 years.
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| 2019/5/08 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
HHS finalized a rule aimed at increasing transparency in the pharmaceutical industry that requires drug companies to disclose the price of medication in direct-to-consumer television advertisements.
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| 2019/5/02 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
The Trump administration issued a rule allowing health care workers to refuse to provide services like abortion, sterilization or assisted suicide, if they cite a religious or conscientious objection.
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| 2018/10/31 |
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Healthcare |
The Support for Patients and Community Act is signed; this law will help defeat the opioid epidemic by expanding recovery centers for addiction treatment, curbing illegal drug shipments, lifting treatment restrictions on medication aimed to curb opioid addiction, and funds new painkiller research and development.
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| 2018/8/07 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
HHS Released a tool for Medicare consumers that would allow them to participate in negotiating lower prescription drug prices.
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| 2018/8/01 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
The Department Of Health And Human Services, The Labor Department And The Department Of Treasury Provided Americans With More Healthcare Choices With The Final Approval Of Short-Term Limited-Duration Plans.
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| 2018/7/19 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
HHS Secretary Alex Azar ordered FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to create a work group that would study the effects of importing prescription drugs to the U.S. in order to battle the skyrocketing prices and shortages of certain prescription drugs.
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| 2018/6/06 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump signs bill to extend Veterans Choice health care law.
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| 2018/5/30 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump signs Right to Try Legislation fulfilling the promise he made to expand healthcare options for terminal Americans.
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| 2018/5/11 |
Social Programs |
Healthcare |
President Trump unveiled the “American Patients First” plan to increase competition, improve negotiation and create incentives to lower prices of prescription drugs and out-of-pocket health care costs for Americans.
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| 2018/5/11 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump rolled out a comprehensive plan to lower drug prices by increasing competition, increasing Medicare’s ability to negotiate discounts, give incentives for lower list prices, and lower patients out-of-pocket spending.
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| 2018/3/19 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump rolled out principles to combat the opioid crisis in the United States that will reduce supply, limit demand, and aid in treatment.
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| 2018/3/06 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
CMS and the White House Office of American Innovation rolled out a new government wide MyHealthEData initiative to increase access to health data by patients.
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| 2018/2/09 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump signed a six-year extension of CHIP to fund healthcare for 9 million children.
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| 2018/1/11 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
CMS rolled out a new policy supporting states in allowing work and community engagement among non-disabled, working-age Medicaid beneficiaries, excluding the elderly, those with disabilities, children, pregnant women, and victims of substance use.
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| 2017/12/22 |
Regulation |
Healthcare |
President Trump repeals ObamaCare's individual mandate.
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| 2017/11/17 |
Land and Agriculture |
Healthcare |
Department of Agriculture provides more than $1 billion to improve access to health care for rural communities.
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| 2017/10/12 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump signs Executive Order to reform U.S. Health Care System, promotes health care choice and competition.
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| 2017/10/12 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump plans to cut cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies under Obamacare.
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| 2017/1/20 |
Health Care |
Healthcare |
President Trump pledges to minimize the economic burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, pending repeal.
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