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Biden administration threatens vetoes over abortion measures |
The White House threatened to veto House GOP spending bills for the Food and Drug Administration, Agriculture and Veterans Affairs departments due to deep funding cuts and "partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences including harming access to reproductive healthcare."
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The veto threat comes amid House Republicans' attempts to use must-pass spending bills as a way to advance anti-abortion measures and other conservative health priorities. Republicans have included anti-abortion measures in almost every appropriation bill, complicating negotiations with the Senate and risking a government shutdown. "House Republicans had an opportunity to engage in a productive, bipartisan appropriations process, but instead, with just over two months before the end of the fiscal year, are wasting time with partisan bills that cut domestic spending to levels well below the (Fiscal Responsibility Act) agreement and endanger critical services for the American people," the White House said in a statement Monday. Some Democrats in the House are looking to force votes on amendments in committee, but most are also relying on the Senate to force bipartisan negotiations.
Senate appropriators have been writing their own funding bills and advancing them out of committee with bipartisan votes. Some Senate Republicans have acknowledged that compromises will be necessary to get the 60 votes needed to end debate and move toward passage.
"I don't know anything that's going on in the House, but 60 votes in the Senate, either to make room to restrict abortion or to enhance or to increase its availability?" Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said earlier this month. "I don't know how something would pass the Senate."
Still, enough hardline GOP members in the House could hold firm and force Democrats to accept a messy compromise in order to avoid a shutdown.
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Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter, we're Nathaniel Weixel and Joseph Choi — every week we follow the latest moves on how Washington impacts your health. |
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Major drug-pricing legislation to cap the cost of insulin is in danger of slipping to the fall, where it risks getting lost amid fights over appropriations bills, abortion and a potential government shutdown. The legislation is a priority for Democrats, and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said earlier this month that he was hoping to combine the insulin bill and legislation reforming the pharmacy benefit manager … |
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| The five largest U.S. pharmaceutical companies by market cap — Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, AbbVie and Pfizer — reported combined earnings of $81.9 billion in 2022, an $8 billion increase from 2021, according to a new analysis by Accountable.US. The left-leaning corporate watchdog found the firms’ combined stock buybacks and dividends increased by $4.4 billion and $2.5 billion, respectively, from 2021 to 2022. … |
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The politicization of COVID-19 vaccines may have led to a higher excess death rate among Republicans in Ohio and Florida during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study found. According to the study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, registered Republicans had a higher rate of excess deaths than Democrats after COVID-19 vaccines became widely available in May 2021. The study from Yale researchers looked at 538,159 deaths … |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- The Senate Finance Committee will hold a markup on Wednesday of a PBM accountability bill.
- A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee holds a hearing Wednesday on oversight of HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
- A House Education and Workforce subcommittee will hold a hearing on pandemic school closures Wednesday.
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Next year's Olympics are pushing Paris to confront crack cocaine use on city streets |
PARIS (AP) — Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public. The Summer Olympics, kicking off a year from Wednesday, are offering an impetus to tackle the problem. Yet despite a surge in arrests and new promises of tougher security around the 2024 Paris Games, some residents … | |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- California Republicans want the state to end tax on health savings plans (East Bay Times)
- The steep cost of Ron DeSantis's vaccine turnabout (New York Times)
- Gay, bisexual men in Utah can give blood under company's loosened restrictions (Standard-Examiner)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Lawsuit says Cigna illegally denies claims in bulk, sticking patients with unexpected bills (Stat)
- Everything old is new again? The latest round of health policy proposals reprises existing ideas (KFF Health News)
- Congressional Democrats call on Biden for workplace heat safety steps (Reuters)
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