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Johnson & Johnson announces drug pricing deal with Trump administration What’s happening: Johnson & Johnson executives are pushing back on the Trump administration’s aggressive drug pricing proposals, arguing that deeper...
From Maternity Deserts to Hospital Deserts: California’s Care Crisis

From Maternity Deserts to Hospital Deserts: California’s Care Crisis

California’s safety-net hospitals are facing a potential financial crisis as multiple pressures converge, according to Scripps Health CEO Chris Van Gorder and CFO Brett Tande. With a $100 million annual...
House Advances Obamacare Subsidy Extension After GOP Defections

House Advances Obamacare Subsidy Extension After GOP Defections

The U.S. House on Jan. 7 advanced legislation to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act premium subsidies for three years, a move that could stabilize insurance markets but faces a difficult...

Headlines from DC

US measles cases soar. Read more. Tuesday, December 30, 2025
President Trump reclassifies cannabis as a Schedule III drug to expand medical research. More details here. Thursday, December 18, 2025
Both plans to fix the ACA Subsidy cliff fail in the Senate. Read more. Thursday, December 11, 2025
HHS vaccine panel votes to end newborn Hep B. recommendation. Read more. Friday, December 5, 2025

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ACA talks live! The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus in the House and key senators are meeting tomorrow to hash out the details for a three-year extension to ACA subsidies.

Democrats are looking at the fire from their base around ACA subsidies and planning on doing polling around Medicare 4 All in 2026.

Polling has shifted and Obamacare has the best numbers since it was implemented over a decade ago. Republicans are realizing that this issue matters to their voters and are scrambling to salvage something…anything…but are lacking strategy.

President Trump was supposed to release his own framework for ACA subsidies today….but it went over like a fart in church with House Republicans pushing back hard.

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House Advances Obamacare Subsidy Extension After GOP Defections

The U.S. House on Jan. 7 advanced legislation to extend enhanced Affordable...

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