Over the weekend, Senate Democrats came together to pass the massive Inflation Reduction Act, which includes a proposal to give Medicare the power to negotiate certain drug prices, as well as a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies to insurers in the form of tax credits that were initially passed as part of the...National News
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden revived his "cancer moonshot" initiative that he personally headed during the Obama administration and promised to pursue as part of his 2020 presidential campaign platform. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) told reporters that the Build Back Better Act is dead as Congress moves to push through some of the...National News
Following months of tense negotiations between moderate Congressional Democrats and the White House, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) ended any hopes for passing President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Bill on Sunday. This leaves many of the sorely needed healthcare spending and reform initiatives in limbo, although some Democrats hope to pass...Arizona News
The Build Back Better Act (BBB) will be reviewed by Democrats in the Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committees this week, ahead of formal negotiations with the Senate parliamentarian over the "Byrd bath," a bipartisan meeting in which items from the budget reconciliation bill that do not directly impact...National News
Last Friday, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act, the massive social and climate spending bill that carries the promises of the Biden presidential platform. After several months of negotiations between democrats and revisions in the plan for how the bill would get passed, the bill is considerably smaller and...National News
After months of negotiations, the Build Back Better Act is taking form as a bill that appeases the concerns of most Congressional Democrats, including holdouts like Senators Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV). The bill will now include a number of healthcare-related solutions and improvements to public health insurance programs...National News
Prescription drug price negotiations have been a major policy proposal for Congressional Democrats looking to improve the outcome of negotiations surrounding President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda in the form of the Reconciliation Bill. Initially, the president and Democratic leadership aimed to expand the ability for the...
