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Mylan, the company that makes EpiPens, may have overcharged taxpayers by as much as $1.27 billion over the past decade for emergency allergy treatment, according to a new report by a government watchdog. The embattled drug-maker is under scrutiny for potentially misclassifying the EpiPen in a way that allowed it to charge Medicaid significantly more than it might have otherwise.
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Kaiser Health News
Politically, Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Mark Warner (D-Virginia) are not all that far apart. Both are moderates who rejected proposed cuts in Medicaid funds. And yet, in the highly polarized atmosphere of Washington, D.C., they find themselves rallying constituents along diametrically opposed positions.
The dialogue has become President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act versus a new GOP bill, called (for now) the American Health Care Act. A love-it-or-leave-it mentality pervades both sides. As angry voters at town halls express their concerns about the state of American healthcare, the senators are reaching out for patient stories to prove their respective viewpoints.
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The Associated Press via The New York Times
Lowering expectations, Iowa's two Republican senators say the long-promised repeal of Obamacare is unlikely, and any final agreement with the Republican-controlled House is uncertain. The comments Tuesday by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst come as the Republican-controlled Senate moves forward on its work to dismantle the 2010 healthcare bill while facing conflicting demands within their own party and lockstep Democratic opposition. Both senators are active players in the healthcare debate.
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The Washington Post
Most Americans hold an unfavorable view of the House-passed healthcare bill and want the Senate to change it substantially or block it entirely, according to the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. A 55 percent majority of Americans view the Republican-backed American Health Care Act negatively, the same proportion who want the Senate to make major changes to the legislation or reject it, the survey finds. Only 8 percent want the legislation, which would repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act, approved as it now stands.
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ABC News
The Republican healthcare bill currently making its way through Congress could have a major impact on how many people have access to health services through Medicaid — changes that would fall disproportionately on women. Today, more than 17 million women in the U.S. aged 18 to 64 have health insurance because of Medicaid, according to data from the National Women's Law Center. Nearly a fourth of these women gained access to health insurance for the first time as a result of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that passed in 2010.
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Modern Healthcare
Republican senators Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania represent states at the epicenter of the nation's opioid addiction crisis. Both their states experienced record spikes in drug overdose deaths in 2015 — a 20.5 percent increase in Ohio, to 3,050, and a 30 percent jump in Pennsylvania, to 3,500.
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The Dallas Morning News
President Donald Trump pledged on the campaign trail to leave Medicaid untouched. But in his first major budget proposal, the president has laid out a plan to reduce Medicaid spending by more than $600 billion over the next decade. Coupled with the Obamacare overhaul House Republicans passed in May, which would reduce Medicaid spending by more than $830 billion over the same period, Texas could lose billions in coverage, with its neediest feeling the pain.
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California Healthline
California could become the first state to extend full Medicaid benefits to undocumented immigrants up to age 26 after two key legislative committees last week approved money for such an expansion. The Assembly and Senate budget committees both approved using some of the money from California's recently passed tobacco tax to cover up to 80,000 unlawfully present young adults under the state's version of Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal.
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The Times-Picayune
Louisiana would eliminate mental health services for people with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder and other serious illnesses after July 1 under the state budget proposal put forward by the House of Representatives. Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Rebekah Gee said she would have to cut most mental health support currently provided to people on Medicaid, including children, in order to deal with a proposed $235 million state funding reduction to her agency for the annual budget cycle that starts in July.
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