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New Year, Same Vaccine Debates

New Year, Same Vaccine Debates

HHS is reshaping parts of the childhood schedule and shifting some decisions back to clinicians—expect ripple effects for uptake, coverage, and state implementation.

News Flash: Inside Congress’s Latest PFAS Liability Showdown

News Flash: Inside Congress’s Latest PFAS Liability Showdown

Members and witnesses debated whether CERCLA’s strict liability framework is deterring cleanup and redevelopment or remains essential to holding PFAS polluters accountable, with implications for water rates, brownfields, and downstream communities.

Sleigh Bells & Subsidies: DC’s Health Cliffhanger

Sleigh Bells & Subsidies: DC’s Health Cliffhanger

It’s a mad dash before the holiday recess, and ACA premiums are on the chopping block.

A Farmer, a Chef, and a Senator Walk Into a Hearing...

A Farmer, a Chef, and a Senator Walk Into a Hearing...

Real stories from rural families, small business owners, and health policy experts on rising premiums, the end of enhanced ACA subsidies, and what’s at stake for middle-income Americans if Congress doesn’t act.

Cutting Costs or Cutting Care?

Cutting Costs or Cutting Care?

The House Oversight Committee grills experts on wasteful spending, site neutral payments, AI risk models, and what happens if ACA tax credits vanish in January.

’Tis the Season for Premium Negotiations

’Tis the Season for Premium Negotiations

Inside the fight over ACA tax credits, drug pricing strategy, and the next chapter of vaccine and AI oversight.

ICYMI: HELP Committee Targets Health Care Sticker Shock

ICYMI: HELP Committee Targets Health Care Sticker Shock

Members from both parties cited stories of families facing $30,000–$50,000 annual premiums, then drilled into hospital consolidation, PBM reform, and price transparency as core drivers of rising costs that are rippling through employer plans, exchanges, and Medicaid alike.

Organ Transplant System Under Fire

Organ Transplant System Under Fire

Whistleblowers reveal organ recovery fraud, patient harm, and taxpayer misuse at federally funded OPOs.

Subsidies, Surveillance, and Semaglutide

Subsidies, Surveillance, and Semaglutide

Congress stalls on ACA relief, Medicaid data may soon flow to ICE, and rising demand for GLP-1s tests state budgets and public coverage limits.

ICYMI: Made in America: Restoring Trust in Our Medicines

ICYMI: Made in America: Restoring Trust in Our Medicines

The Senate Special Committee on Aging meets to discuss U.S. manufacturing and standards for pharmaceuticals.

Chronic Disease Care at a Crossroads

Chronic Disease Care at a Crossroads

The House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee meets to discuss ways to modernize care and solutions for chronic disease treatment and prevention.

Six Weeks to Prevent a Health Crisis

Six Weeks to Prevent a Health Crisis

Senate Finance meets to discuss the enhanced ACA tax credits that expire on January 1, 2026. Here is what that means for families, plans, and providers.

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