On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which rose from the ashes of the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), a bill that failed to pass in 2021 after it could not gather enough support in the Senate.
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New Prescription Drug Pricing Law Brings “Substantial” Reform
Posted on 31 August 2022.
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Alzheimer’s Drug Cited As Medicare Premium Jumps By $21.60
Posted on 16 November 2021.
Medicare’s “Part B” outpatient premium will jump by $21.60 a month in 2022, one of the largest increases ever. Officials said Friday a new Alzheimer’s drug is responsible for about half of that.
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Drug Costs Skyrocket: Congress Stalls On Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets
Posted on 05 January 2021.
Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst, priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply, only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations.
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Prescription Drug Prices Rose 3x Faster Than Inflation
Posted on 04 March 2020.
The net cost of prescription drugs, meaning sticker price minus manufacturer discounts, rose over three times faster than the rate of inflation over the course of a decade.
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GOP Senators Distance Themselves From Grassley, Trump’s Efforts To Cut Drug Prices
Posted on 27 July 2019.
The fight between policymakers intent on lowering prescription drug prices and the drugmakers who keep raising them intensified Thursday.
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Advisory panel targets rising Medicare drug costs
Posted on 18 June 2016.
Congress should move to slow spending in Medicare’s drug benefit by adopting a package of changes that could save billions, but would also add costs to insurers and have mixed effects on enrollees, an independent advisory commission said Wednesday.
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