Well being Care Inc.: MAGA backs Medicare, fake drug value transparency

Bob Herman covers medical health insurance, authorities applications, hospitals, physicians, and different suppliers — reporting on how cash influences these companies and shapes what all of us pay for care. He’s additionally the creator of the Well being Care Inc. publication. You may attain Bob on Sign at bobjherman.09.

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The fake transparency of drug costs

Your entire pharmaceutical trade confronted a second of reckoning in 2017, proper after President Trump was elected the primary time and stated drug corporations have been “getting away with homicide” over their excessive costs.

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