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.

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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.”

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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.

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Hepatitis C cure eludes patients as states struggle with costs

NBC News

Wanda Bamberg Tia is clearly in good shape.

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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.

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