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The Hill
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) penned a letter with 19 other senators to the maker of EpiPens Tuesday, questioning the company's recent attempt to address the outrage over its price hikes. The senators — 19 Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont), who caucuses with Democrats — grilled Mylan about why it did not reduce the price of the EpiPen, an emergency allergy medication, and instead put forward more complicated discounting systems in response to the uproar about skyrocketing prices.
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The New York Times
In its latest move to quell outrage over its price increases, the maker of the EpiPen has resorted to an unusual tactic — introducing a generic version of its own product. The company, Mylan, said on Monday that the generic EpiPen would be identical to the existing product, which is used to treat severe allergic reactions. But it will have a wholesale list price of $300 for a pack of two, half the price of the brand-name EpiPen.
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CNBC
Mylan's unusual decision to introduce an identical, generic EpiPen competitor follows a week of pressure to lower the price of its lifesaving allergy drug — but some are now questioning whether the move, designed to appear as a price-lowering measure, may in fact net Mylan more revenue than the original version. The generic version of EpiPen will have a list price of $300 for a two-pack, about half that of the branded EpiPen, Mylan said Monday. It'll be "AB-rated," meaning pharmacists can automatically swap in the generic version for the brand.
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The New York Times
The Obama administration for years has been pleading with states to expand their Medicaid programs and offer health coverage to low-income people. Now it has a further argument in its favor: Expansion of Medicaid could lower insurance prices for everyone else. A new study published by in-house researchers at the Department of Health and Human Services compared places that have expanded their Medicaid programs as part of Obamacare with neighboring places that have not. They found that, in 2015, insurance in the marketplace for middle-income people cost less in the places that had expanded Medicaid.
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NJ.com
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday boasted the success of expanding the Medicaid program in the state, arguing the "naysayers" have been "proven wrong" and that 566,000 additional New Jerseyans have insurance coverage. It's been three years since Christie announced he planned to buck his party and embrace President Barack Obama's Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. He was one of only a handful of GOP governors to embrace the changes.
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Morning Consult
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin on Wednesday submitted a waiver to the Department of Health and Human Services seeking to overhaul the state's expanded Medicaid program. The state's proposal seeks to transition people on Medicaid to private insurance plans and help pay for the state's expanded Medicaid program, Bevin said when he announced the plan in June. Kentucky officials have since made some changes and clarifications to the proposal, after holding public hearings and collecting comments over the past two months.
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The Washington Post
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe suggested tapping the state's rainy-day fund and accepting more federal Medicaid money on Friday as a way to patch the state's $1.5 billion budget hole. McAuliffe formally informed legislators of the budget shortfall, the result of lower-than-expected revenue from payroll and sales taxes, at a meeting of House and Senate money committees on Capitol Square.
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Iowa Public Radio
A federal report released last year shows in 2014, for-profit companies managing part of Iowa's three billion dollar Medicaid program made far fewer faulty payments than the state-run portion of the program. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad says that shows fraud and abuse will go down, now that for-profit companies are in charge of most of Iowa's Medicaid patients.
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Argus Leader
The fight to expand Medicaid in South Dakota isn't over, stakeholders said Thursday. Despite delays from the legislature in addressing the proposal to expand the federal health insurance program for needy people, healthcare industry officials said they would push for expansion in 2017.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
Doctors who make house calls may seem like something from America's Norman Rockwell past. But they never disappeared entirely, and there is new evidence that home visits can play an important role in providing health care to the aged and chronically ill — while saving taxpayers millions. The federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services said this month that a demonstration project has shown that delivering comprehensive primary care services at home helped to keep Medicare recipients with multiple chronic illnesses or disabilities out of hospitals, emergency rooms and nursing homes.
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