President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals sweeping changes to the drug and treatment pricing agency within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and perhaps a substantive shake-up in two of the largest federal social welfare programs.
President Donald Trump has frozen $3 trillion in federal funds until his administration completes a full spending review. Here’s what it means.
Donald Trump has rescinded an executive order from President Joe Biden that sought to lower the price of drugs.
President Donald Trump rescinded an executive order issued by former President Joe Biden aimed at finding new models for lowering drug costs.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.
A provision about insulin in the Inflation Reduction Act is conflated with a 2022 executive order by former President Joe Biden on lowering prescription drug costs in posts online that suggest President Donald Trump has canceled the $35 insulin co-pay cap for certain Medicare programs.
Trump stopped a program that had been in the works and was intended to give Medicare recipients access to more than 100 generic drugs for $2 a month, according to another executive order signed on Trump's first day in his new term.
The temporary moratorium on some federal financial assistance programs was set to take effect Tuesday, setting off widespread confusion.
Democrats are planning to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to pause federal grants and loans. The court battle will likely begin with a lawsuit from the New York attorney general.
President Donald Trump’s pause on federal grants and loans has agencies and individuals scrambling as the fallout continues.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a contentious confirmation hearing to be the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled to answer questions about how he would reform Medicaid or Medicare, the government health care programs used by millions of disabled, poor and older Americans.
But the president's recent executive orders have moved us further from that shared goal. These actions don't lower costs for hardworking Americans. In fact, many of them will raise costs for families while benefiting special interests and large corporations.