New Mexico Executive Order Creates Task Force On Drug Prices

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed Thursday (June 9) an executive order that creates a task force to consider policies for controlling drug prices. The task force, made up of the state’s insurance superintendent, a doctor, an independent pharmacist, a patient and a health insurance representative, will advise the governor on policies by reviewing what other states have done to control drug costs for the government and residents. Those policies may be legislative or administrative. The task force...
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Ohio Lawmakers Urge Becerra, Biden To House ARPA-H In Cleveland

A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers want the city of Cleveland to serve as the home base for the Biden administration’s new biomedical research agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. They join the ranks of lawmakers from states like Texas and Massachusetts who also are vying for their respective states to house the new agency. HHS is in the process of making decisions about ARPA-H’s location, but the department wants to work with the yet-to-be-tapped director of ARPA-H...
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Pfizer To Sell Drugs In 45 Low-Income Countries At Not-For-Profit Prices

Pfizer’s Accord for a Healthier World initiative aims to provide the company’s current and upcoming patented medicines at not-for-profit prices to 45 low and lower-middle-income countries to reduce health disparities. “At the heart of it is a fundamental belief that these are not tradeoffs. Doing social good and sustaining the long-term financial health of a company are two things that can fit wonderfully together,” Pfizer Executive Vice President and Chief Business Innovation Officer Aamir Malik said during a fireside investor...
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NY Insurers Urge Hochul To Veto Co-Pay Accumulator Ban, Other Bills

New York’s legislative session wrapped up earlier this month and the lobby representing health insurers is urging Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to modify or veto several bills that it says would inflate health care spending by imposing coverage mandates, interfering with processes, and hampering plans’ ability to manage costs, including through use of co-pay accumulators that restrict drug pay coupons from counting toward patient out-of-pocket spending. Key bills that the New York Health Plan Association (NYHPA) wants scrapped or changed...
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Health Exchange Alert Weekly Report - 06/15/2022
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Republicans: China Could Steal IP Even If Excluded From TRIPS Waiver

China could exploit third countries to steal U.S. intellectual property related to COVID-19 vaccines even if explicitly excluded from a World Trade Organization waiver of some intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, four Republican senators charged this week in a letter to WTO Ambassador María Pagán. “Although a proposed resolution may exclude China, we are concerned the PRC will fraudulently access the intellectual property of U.S. COVID-19 vaccines despite their exclusion from any WTO agreement and without the consent of...
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First Draft Of FCC Broadband Maps Expected This Fall

Initial drafts of the new broadband maps from the Federal Communications Commission that will allow the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to start allocating funding for states to expand broadband access will be available this fall, NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson told a Senate panel Thursday (June 9). But lawmakers expressed renewed distrust in the FCC’s and NTIA’s ability to create accurate broadband maps and distribute funding properly to unserved and underserved communities. The recently enacted bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs...
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Wyden Looks To Include Mental Health Reform In Gun Control Legislation

Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-OR) is hoping there will be room for mental health reform in the gun control legislation currently being negotiated in the Senate after several mass shootings prompted hospitals, among other advocates, to call for stricter gun requirements . Wyden told reporters on Thursday (June 9) he never expected to have a complete mental health package right now, but he thinks there’s an opportunity to tackle the crisis in the next few weeks as senators...
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