Health Headlines for Monday, May 7
Trump Says He Got Rid of Obamacare. The I.R.S. Doesn’t Agree.
New York Times
At a rally in Michigan a little over a week ago, President Trump assured his supporters that he had kept his promise to abolish the Affordable Care Act — even though Congress had failed to repeal the Obama-era health law.
As Trump Prepares Plan to Lower Drug Prices, Big Pharma Girds for a Fight
New York Times
In his State of the Union address in January and again in New Hampshire in March, President Trump made a bold promise: “You’ll be seeing drug prices falling very substantially in the not-too-distant future,” he said, “and it’s going to be beautiful.”
KHN Morning Briefing
Kaiser Health News
Business groups want relief from the mandate, but lawmakers have little appetite to take up any more changes in this politically charged election year.
Hepatitis C cure eludes patients as states struggle with costs
NBC News
Wanda Bamberg Tia is clearly in good shape.
The problem with prescription drug prices
CBS News
The Rockford File is the story of how one very expensive prescription drug threatened to financially cripple an entire city.