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CVS plans to buy Aetna: Will consumers pay more?
CVS Health, a chain of retail pharmacies, plans to buy Aetna for $69 billion in an effort to...
GOP tax bill has hidden middle class tax hike
Michael Hiltzik reports for the LA Times on a GOP middle class tax hike hidden in the House and...
National Academy of Sciences recommends drug price negotiation...
A new report, Making Medicines Affordable, by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and...
GOP tax bill cuts $400 billion from Medicare
On Friday December 1, 51 Senate Republicans voted to slash Medicare as much as $400 billion over...
FDA approves first digital pill
The New York Times reports that the FDA has approved the first digital pill, a pill that allows...
One in four insured Americans go without care, struggle to pay...
A new Kaiser Family Foundation report finds that fewer than half of single people have the money to...
Unlike Canadians, Americans pay a huge financial and emotional...
Catherine Gordon reports for the UC Observer on cancer care in Canada and the US, profiling her own...
Two in five older adults needing long term care do not get it
As they age, most older adults living in their communities rely primarily on family and other...
Trump’s pick to head HHS drove up insulin prices at Eli...
Caitlyn McClure of the Other 98 reports that Alex Azar, President Trump’s pick to head the US...