A new report released by the White House outlines the current administration’s approach to child health, pinning much of the blame of childhood chronic disease on factors such as diet, physical activity and “overmedicalization,” or overmedicating.
Category: Legislation, Pharma, Public Policy, Life Sciences
Trump order aims to lower drug prices with most favored nation policy
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that would effectively link drug prices in the U.S.to the cost of drugs abroad, and tasks Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to negotiate new prices for the dr…
Arkansas governor backs bill to ban PBMs from owning pharmacies
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has advanced legislation that would seek to bar pharmacy benefit managers from also owning pharmacies, claiming that PBMs are taking advantage of lax regulations.
According to Sanders, PBMs take advantage of thi…
Lawmakers push DOJ to investigate PBMs over opioids
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland saying that the Department of Justice should examine whether pharmacy benefit managers had a hand in the opioid epidemic.
