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Anonymous ID: 2e9ee0 June 9, 2021, 6:50 p.m. No.61679   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1681 >>1710 >>1719

WH budget office approves Biden's plan to retract insulin, epipen discounts: report

 

The White House this week gave President Biden the greenlight to move forward with removing a Trump-era health care policy designed to bring down the price of insulin.

 

Biden’s bid to retract the rule was approved on Monday, as reported by Politico, with the expectation that the Department of Health and Human Services could publish the retraction within the coming days.

 

The measure, signed off on under the previous administration in December, aimed to require some 340B community health centers to deliver savings to low-income patients for insulin and epinephrine in a bid to bring down unaffordable prices.

 

Spokespeople for the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not return FOX Business’ request for comment.

 

The rule was scheduled to go into effect in January but was frozen at that time.

 

Earlier this year, the National Association of Health Care Centers said the rule would "adversely impact Community Health Centers" and make it harder for low-income patients to afford the medications.

 

President Donald Trump focused on lowering the price of drugs during his tenure. Biden has made similar promises, including calling for allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs.

 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/wh-budget-office-approves-bidens-plan-to-remove-insulin-epipen-discounts-report

 

Dems only want to help the poor when it makes em dependent

Anonymous ID: 2e9ee0 June 9, 2021, 7:01 p.m. No.61682   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>1710 >>1719

Biden administration to buy 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to donate to the world

June 9, 2021 at 3:08 p.m. PDT

 

The Biden administration is buying 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to donate to the world as the United States dramatically increases its efforts to help vaccinate more of the global population, three people familiar with the plans said Wednesday.

 

The first 200 million doses will be distributed this year, with the subsequent 300 million shared in the first half of next year. The doses will be distributed by Covax, the World Health Organization-backed initiative to share doses around the globe, and they will be targeted at low- and middle-income countries. Pfizer is selling the doses to the United States at a “not-for-profit” price, according to the people familiar with the deal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details that were not yet public.

 

President Biden is slated to announce the plan this week at the Group of Seven meeting in Britain, where he is expected to be joined by Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. The deal comes amid growing calls for the United States and other rich countries to play a more substantial role in boosting the global supply of coronavirus vaccines.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-vaccine-donate/2021/06/09/c2744674-c934-11eb-93fa-9053a95eb9f2_story.html