President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden aimed at finding new models for lowering drug costs. Trump's action didn't affect the caps on seniors' drug costs or Medicare price negotiations that Biden signed into law.
During Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s contentious Senate confirmation hearing as HHS secretary nominee, he revealed that Medicaid costs blew out by a staggering 60% during Joe Biden’s presidency. “Our ship is sinking.
to develop and test ways to lower drug prices for people on Medicare and Medicaid. Since former-President Joe Biden's 2022 order, CMS had been planning out and preparing to test three models to lower prices. None of them had fully gone into effect.
Former campaign aides to President Joe Biden and CNN host Abby Phillip expressed angst Tuesday after Republican strategist Scott Jennings defended the Trump administration’s grant freeze. A federal judge temporarily blocked a freeze on certain spending programs ordered by President Donald Trump Tuesday.
One in five Americans over age 50 have no retirement savings according to AARP, and 61% are worried they won’t have enough socked away to live on in their senior years. For 1 in every 3 Americans, credit card debt outpaces their emergency savings, and more than 1 in 4 people have no emergency savings at all.
A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden paused the Trump administration's temporary federal funding freeze just as it was set to go into effect.
President Trump is rolling back Biden healthcare policies, such as expansions to the Affordable Care Act – a move Democrats described as an "attack" on the federal program.
The executive order, which Biden signed in October 2022, had not spurred any lower drug prices by the time Trump revoked it Jan. 20. The order directed the Health and Human Services Department secretary to consider "new health care payment and delivery models" for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test.
The president’s announcement on Friday was one of many sweeping executive moves he’s making in his final days in office.
The GOP can save huge sums by going back to pre-pandemic spending on Medicaid and food stamps.
Three cabinet nominees ‒ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel ‒ faced a questions from Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.
After fours years of criticizing budget deficits under Joe Biden, Republicans now have a math problem of their own.