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Roe, IVF and drug prices top Democratic health agenda |
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) released its official platform just before the party's convention kicked off this week, laying out plans for changing the U.S. health care system should they clinch the White House again. |
The platform highlights many of what Democrats see as winning issues: Restoring Roe v. Wade, protecting IVF access, reducing drug costs and keeping the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies. The platform "makes a strong statement about the historic work that President Biden and Vice President Harris have accomplished hand-in-hand, and offers a vision for a progressive agenda that we can build on as a nation and as a Party as we head into the next four years," the DNC said in a statement. The document addresses some of the actions the Biden-Harris administration has taken on issues like Medicare drug price negotiation and surprise medical bills and promises to expand them. The first 10 drugs that Medicare could negotiate over landed last week. While there are questions about just how much savings individual beneficiaries could see, and the prices won't take effect until 2026, Democrats vowed to add 50 drugs to the list so Medicare could negotiate the prices for 500 drugs by the end of the decade. On reproductive rights, the platform vowed that the next administration, with the help of a Democratic Congress, will pass legislation to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade. It's become a standard Democratic talking point, though some progressives are pushing to do much more than return the status quo to 1973. Democrats said they want to protect access to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), strengthen access to contraception and repeal the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funds from covering abortions. |
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) often talks about he and his wife Gwen Walz undergoing years of fertility treatments before becoming parents, allowing him to shine a personal spotlight on a major Republican vulnerability. “This gets personal for me and my family,” Walz said of reproductive care during his first rally with Harris earlier this month, recalling the pit in his stomach when the couple received updates on … |
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the presidential election will be more about the economy than abortion when pressed on his policy differences with former President Trump on the latter issue. Graham, in an interview on NBC News's "Meet the Press," said he still supports a 15-week abortion ban but is "OK" with Trump's support for states' rights to make their abortion policy. "He’s our nominee. He believes the states’-rights … |
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Vice President Kamala Harris laid out her economic agenda Friday, and much of her plan involves taking the health care accomplishments made by the Biden administration further. Speaking in North Carolina, Harris vowed that under her administration, Medicare negotiations would continue and grow to encompass all Americans, not only Medicare beneficiaries. "Just yesterday we announced that we are lowering the price by up to 80 … |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- The 2024 Democratic National Convention officially kicks off today. The Hill's reporters are on the ground, giving the latest updates on the highly anticipated event.
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Middlemen make money, not medicines. |
Over half of every dollar spent on medicines goes to middlemen, like PBMs and insurers, along with others. They control what medicines you can get and what you pay at the pharmacy. Middlemen are driving medicine costs, and you don't know the half of it. |
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Congo says it will receive its first mpox vaccines next week to address new global emergency |
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo will receive the first vaccine doses to address its mpox outbreak next week from the United States, the country’s health minister said Monday, days after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global emergency. Mpox cases have been confirmed among children and adults in more … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Nurses strike at UI health, a Chicago hospital close to the DNC (WBEZ Chicago)
- Will California regulate hedge funds in health care? Lawmakers will decide soon (CalMatters)
- Florida health department advises against eating pythons, but some do anyway (Naples Daily News)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- DNC convention to focus on 'lowering health care costs' with Bernie Sanders speech (ABC News)
- CEOs earn big bucks at nonprofit hospitals. But does that benefit the patients? (NPR)
- Abortions at the DNC? Planned Parenthood bus providing no-cost services and vasectomies (USA TODAY)
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The signature investigation of the Republican-led House fizzled to a close Monday as the GOP capped a yearlong probe into President Biden with a series … Read more |
| Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) faces a primary challenge Tuesday as former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his allies seek revenge against the Republicans … Read more |
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