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The Washington Post
With just 17 days left for Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act on a party-line vote, a quartet of GOP senators on Wednesday rolled out a plan to devolve federal healthcare spending into state-by-state block grants — legislation that South Carolina Sen. Lindsey O. Graham described as conservatives' last shot at reform.
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The New York Times
Senate bargainers have reached agreement to extend financing for the children's health insurance program for five years, and approval of the deal would avert an end-of-month cash crunch for the popular initiative. In a concession to Republicans, the agreement late Tuesday would phase out extra federal dollars that have gone to states since the additional money was mandated as part of former President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law.
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NPR
Cancer drugs cost far less to develop than industry-backed research asserts, an analysis published Monday asserts. Research and development costs are a major reason that drug companies justify high prices, so this dispute has a direct bearing on the cost of medical care. The analysis, published in the current issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, concludes that it costs, on average, $650 million to develop a new cancer drug. The authors add in another $100 million or so to account for income those companies could have had if that money had been invested in the stock market instead of in new products.
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MedPage Today
Drug prices are higher than ever and getting worse, a new study confirms. Retail prices for some of the most commonly used specialty prescription drugs increased by 9.6 percent in 2015, the fastest annual change in the past decade. That's one of the main findings of the AARP's annual drug price report, which was released Thursday morning.
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The Arizona Republic
Three dozen current and former state lawmakers challenging the way Arizona funds the state's Medicaid expansion will argue their case before the Arizona Supreme Court. The state high court this week agreed to hear the Republican lawmakers' challenge to the state's Medicaid expansion, which extended insurance coverage to more than 400,000 low-income Arizonans.
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Forbes
Health insurer Centene, one of the larger and more successful players on public exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, said Tuesday it will buy Fidelis Care in a move to expand statewide into New York. In Fidelis, Centene will buy an established player in New York's Obamacare, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage markets. Fidelis had more than 1.6 million health plan members as of June 30 and nearly $5 billion in revenue for the first half of this year, the companies said.
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Los Angeles Times
Reemember the telephone book? That giant, multithousand-page behemoth that used to land on your doorstep once a year? The heyday of the phone book is long gone, and yet communications with friends and businesses is easier than it's ever been before. Can it be that California officials haven't noticed that? A new federal rule that took effect in July allows health insurance plans to stop automatically printing and mailing lengthy Medi-Cal provider directories, some of which are the size of phone books, to all new enrollees and make the information available digitally. Anyone without online access or who preferred having a hard copy could still request one.
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