Advocates pushing to block the Trump administration’s controversial Title X rule say a recent report revealing senior HHS officials helped an anti-abortion health clinic secure a family planning program grant, prior to implementation of the controversial rule banning providers offering abortions or abortion referrals from the funding, shows the administration’s extensive efforts to remold the Title X program in line with its anti-abortion stance.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that House Democrats’ drug pricing bill would save half a trillion dollars in a decade, according to House Democratic leaders, and Democrats plan to use those savings to pay for additional drug research at the National Institutes of Health, additional Medicare benefits and a hodgepodge of Medicare and Medicaid policies that would lower costs for beneficiaries of those programs.

Retail prescription drug prices declined overall by 1% in 2018 but overall spending on retail prescription drugs increased by 2.5%, according to CMS’s National Health Expenditures survey, released on Thursday (Dec. 5).

The House will vote next week on legislation to let Medicare negotiate drug prices and make those prices available to people with private insurance.