Talks On Another Health Package Broke Down As Spending Deadline Looms

Negotiations between House and Senate leadership on another skinny health package that included pharmacy benefit manager reforms, community health center funding, pandemic response funding and opioid provisions collapsed over the weekend, lowering the chances that health measures will be added to one of the remaining spending bills by the March 22 government funding deadline, according to a senior staffer familiar with the discussions. Eight out of the 10 congressional health care committees, excluding the House Ways & Means and Education...