As the highly anticipated presidential election fast approaches, the campaigns are working overtime to tout their contrasting positions on a variety of important healthcare issues.
As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise across the country, no topic is more pressing than the pandemic. According to an NPR analysis relying on...Arizona News
On August 6, a report from from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association showed that Arizona led the nation in COVID-19 infections in children.
Arizona's rate of cases in children and young adults ages 19 and younger is 1,206.4 per 100,000. Most cases of COVID-19 in children are less severe than...Arizona News
During President Trump's Coronavirus Briefing on Wednesday, he referred to Arizona as "a model for applying a science-based approach to the decreasing cases and hospitalizations without implementing a punishing lockdown."
On Wednesday, Arizona also reported 87 new known COVID-19 deaths, and assigned those deaths to the appropriate...National News
Last week, President Donald Trump shocked pharmaceutical companies by signing three executive orders (EOs) that will influence drug prices in favor of consumers, according to the White House.
One of the EOs, which would revive a 2018 rule that was nixed following negotiations with pharmaceutical companies, included an invitation...National News
Last week, 18 states, including Arizona, two individuals and the Trump administration’s Department of Justice filed opening briefs for California v. Texas, a case currently before the Supreme Court that debates the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Nearly 23 million Americans have insurance through the ACA marketplace and...Arizona News
President Trump’s visit to Arizona on Tuesday was eclipsed by the continued acceleration of COVID-19 cases in the state. On Wednesday, Arizona ranked in the top five states for new confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
Although mask mandates are being passed in cities across the state, Governor Doug Ducey’s office has not...Arizona News
As Arizona prepares to reopen, precautions against a second surge hinge entirely upon testing and tracking the virus in order to contain its spread. In long term care facilities specifically, testing is critical to protect the elderly and vulnerable from contracting COVID-19 and spreading it within the care facility.
On Tuesday,...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif wish list includes directives to HHS to annually negotiate prices "on as many as possible" of the 250 most expensive drugs to Medicare that don't have at least two competitors, the creation of an international price index and escalating penalties for drug manufacturers that refuse to participate in...
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas ruled the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional on Friday, leaving those enrolled in the ACA uncertain in terms of the law's future. No changes will be made to the 2010 act that is still law as appeals are being filed, the case does have the possibility of reaching the U.S. Supreme...Arizona News
As the midterm elections are right around the corner, healthcare is on the minds of many; politicians and voters alike. The news cycle this week is marred with a slew of "he said, she said" pieces, Republicans pointing condemning fingers at the policies of Democrats and vice versa. The question is not "why healthcare", however, but "what...Arizona News
Attorney General Xavier Becerra of California joined the District of Columbia and 11 other states in a lawsuit to prevent the removal and diminishing of consumer protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the sale of Association Health Plans (AHPs).
President Trump announced the policy June 19, claiming it would lower...National News
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) missed $4 billion in savings evaluating changes to Medicare Part D by Congress.
Initially the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 had estimated saving Medicare $7.7 billion over the period of 10 years, but oversight from the CBO found that legislative changes to the drug discount program yielded...Arizona News
In the midst of a suit brought on by 12 Democratic attorney generals against the Trump administration, the President last week bragged about his new health plans and said they are already generating "record business."
Available to the public Sept. 1, the association health plans take a jab at the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which...National News
Senators voted 52-48 to take up the House-passed legislation, which is being used as a vehicle for the Senate bill.
The party-line vote was an important victory for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump. But it was not a guarantee of ultimate success, as several Republican lawmakers agreed to open debate on the bill so...National News
An executive order is being finalized that would permit health plans offered by associations to allow individuals to pool together and buy insurance outside their states, a unilateral move that follows failed efforts by Congress to overhaul the health care system.
Soon after the latest Senate Repeal and Replace bill failed, Sen. Rand...