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Stocks Slide After Trump Attacks Drugmakers

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said pharmaceutical companies are “getting away with murder” in what they charge the government for medicines, and promised that would change, sending drugs stocks sharply lower. The benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX slipped into negative territory after his remarks at a news conference spooked investors. The iShares Nasdaq Biotech […]

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Rural Hospitals Brace for Healthcare Repeal

CONNELLSVILLE, Penn. — Judy Keller, 69, has always relied on Highlands Hospital for medical care, just as her parents did before her. When she walks through the halls, she recognizes faces from the community and even from her days working as a school teacher. The 64-bed facility, she says, is a mainstay of this rural […]

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Trump Choice of Antivaccine Leader Alarms Experts

The U.S. medical community is responding with reactions ranging from apprehension to dismay at reports that President-elect Donald Trump reportedly asked a renowned vaccine skeptic to head a new commission on vaccine safety. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has written articles and books claiming a link between childhood vaccines and autism, said Tuesday that Trump […]

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GOP Uneasy About Obamacare Repeal Without a Plan

WASHINGTON — Republican anxiety is mounting over voting to unravel the healthcare law without having an alternative in hand, fanned by words of encouragement from Donald Trump to a GOP senator who wants to simultaneously repeal and replace the statute. GOP leaders have made dismantling President Barack Obama’s treasured healthcare overhaul their premier 2017 priority. […]

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Obama Health Legacy: Coverage, Conflict, Questions

WASHINGTON — Although his signature law is in jeopardy, President Barack Obama’s work reshaping healthcare in America is certain to endure in the broad public support for many of its underlying principles. Notwithstanding growing pains in connection securing some of the promises of the Affordable Care Act, the belief that people with medical problems should […]

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Trump Appears to Back Off of VA Privatization

You don’t often see Donald Trump pull a punch, but he did it last week. Trump spent his entire campaign deeply angered by how the government treats veterans, particularly regarding their medical care. He promised to overhaul the Veterans Administration (VA) health care system and “take care” of the vets. Everyone has interpreted this as […]

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Health Insurers Worry about Trump’s HHS Choice

Now that Dr. Tom Price, a Republican congressman, has been picked by Donald Trump to be the next U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, insurers fear an assault on narrow networks, reimbursement tied to outcomes and related value-based care models. “Dr. Price understands that there is a critical need to reduce the administrative burden that […]

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Healthcare in Trump’s America: How Will Markets React

The stock market has been very resilient this year despite major political events including the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election win. American investors, Democrat and Republican, have been celebrating the impact Donald Trump has had on American markets. Consumer stocks realized major gains in the immediate aftermath of election results as Trump has proposed […]

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Healthcare Outlook for 2017: Everything Is in Play

2017 had been shaping up as a year focused on fixing the Affordable Care Act’s insurance markets, slowing prescription drug price hikes, expanding Medicaid, improving mental health care and spreading value-based payment and delivery. Suddenly there’s a new, more conservative agenda. And almost everything in health care is up in the air. Insurers and providers […]

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Trump Has Plans for FDA

The new Trump administration is currently oscillating between two options for his head of the FDA. One is Scott Gottlieb, a right wing but accredited doctor, and a partner at one of the world’s largest venture capital funds. The other is Jim O’Neill, the managing director at Peter Thiel’s tech investment firm Mithril, and a […]

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Obama Rule Will Block Defunding Family Planning

One of the few antidotes to the series of bad news this year has been Barack Obama’s final, well-meaning movements in office. The current president, who is due to hand over the keys to American politics to Donald Trump in January, has permanently protected women’s rights to have abortions by signing in a law that […]

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Who Is Tom Price? Trump’s Choice for HHS

Washington (CNN) — While some Republicans have signaled major changes to Obamacare are a long time in the making, President-elect Donald Trump has sent a strong signal that the law’s days are numbered, no matter what. That signal is Rep. Tom Price, Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The Georgia […]

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