White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney is hitting the Sunday show circuit this week as the Trump administration and GOP leaders ratchet up the pitch for their proposal to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, is slated to appear on CNN’s “State of the Union” and ABC’s “This Week.”
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Rep. Cummings asks Trump to soften talk about black communities
… have expressed potential common ground. Along with Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vermont), Cummings presented Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price with a proposal that would allow Medicare to better negotiate drug prices. Cummings said …
Lawmakers question pricing of drug for genetic disease
… “exorbitantly” pricing potentially life-saving medications hurts patient access and drives up prices for the entire health care sector. Lawmakers challenged Mylan NV last year for its EpiPen pricing, which has climbed more than 500 percent since …
The Latest: Trump promises health insurance for all
… has rejected President-elect Donald … more President-elect Donald Trump says his plan to replace the nation’s health care law will include “insurance for everybody.” The president-elect says: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody. There was …
US lawmakers press pharma firm on high prices for antibiotic
Two US lawmakers are questioning whether Heritage Pharmaceuticals misled them in response to a 2014 congressional inquiry about the rising price a common antibiotic, after 20 US states this week accused the company of price fixing. In a Dec. 16 letter to Heritage seen by Reuters, Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said they feared the company was “disingenuous at best” in October, 2014, when it told them it had not seen any significant price increases for its doxycycline hyclate product.