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In court, drug middlemen fight to limit pharmacies insured patients can use
“In court, drug middlemen fight to limit pharmacies insured patients can use” first appeared in the Ohio Capital Dispatch. In the first test of a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, drug middlemen last week argued that federal law gives them a crucial right to limit what pharmacies patients with health insurance can use — or […]
Federal probe of drug middlemen urged
“Federal probe of drug middlemen urged,” first appeared in the Ohio Capital Journal. After years of accusations in Ohio and elsewhere, a bipartisan group in the U.S. Senate wants federal regulators to investigate whether drug middlemen and their parent companies are rigging the system to raise prices and pad their pockets. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, […]
‘14,000 attempts.’ Balky technology, expiring benefits worry workers, state leaders.
Congress is continuing to squabble over whether to extend a federal supplement to unemployment insurance and if they do, by how much. But as they argue over whether to continue the supplement at $600 a week or some fraction of that, out-of-work Americans are left to worry whether they can survive on state benefits that […]