Tag: health care costs
An appeals court has revived a challenge to President Biden's Medicare drug price reduction program
NEW ORLEANS -- A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for widely used prescription drugs was...
Sri Lanka's presidential election a test for current leader, 2 years after its economy hit bottom
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Two years ago, food cart worker Fathima Shiyama had to wait in line, sometimes for days, to get cooking...
Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high wealth tax dodgers
WASHINGTON -- The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency announced Friday, crediting spending that has...
Patients will suffer with bankrupt health care firm's closure of Massachusetts hospitals, staff say
AYER, Mass. -- When Christina Hernon was 5, her throat swelled shut from an infection and her mother rushed her to a local...
What is 'price gouging' and why is VP Harris proposing to ban it?
With inflation and high grocery prices still frustrating many voters, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday proposed a ban on “price gouging” by...
Harris has offered a string of new economic proposals. Here's a closer look at what's in them
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris is out with a string of new economic proposals focused on food prices, taxes, housing and medical...