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Drug makers sue to block Trump rule to post prices in TV ads

Dr. George Ma draws blood from patient Ben Loya during an exam at the Doctor's China Town office on June 5, 2013. (Photo by Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump's new rule will give businesses and workers better health care options

Top Democrats hesitate again on Medicare for All

Washington, UNITED STATES: The US Department of Health and Human Services building is shown in Washington, DC, 21 July 2007. The department, which began operations in 1980, has more than 67,000 employees. AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB

New lawsuit filed over 'conscience objection' rule for medical care

DES MOINES, IOWA - JUNE 08: Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke nears the finish line behind his wife Amy in the Pride Fest Fun Run 5K on June 08, 2019 in Des Moines, Iowa. Most of the more than 20 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for president are campaigning in the Iowa this weekend. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Beto O'Rourke proposes LGBTQ protections in plan that undoes Trump policies

Vaccines Fast Facts

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden during a campaign rally at Eakins Oval in Philadelphia, Saturday, May 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

What is the Hyde Amendment and why did Joe Biden once support it?

Cancer patient Kimberly Paulson sits with a book as she gets her chemotherapy treatment at the Cape Fear Valley Cancer Center August 4, 2010 in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

The cost of cancer: 25% of survivors face financial hardship, report finds

Mallinckrodt paid 'kickbacks' to keep drug price high, and stuck taxpayers with bill, DOJ lawsuit says

John Delaney booed by California Democrats after criticizing 'Medicare for All'

Trump takes aim at insurers and hospitals over health care costs

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Trump and Biden escalate their fight

Trump's 'religious conscience' rule for health care providers draws court challenge

Trump administration proposes rule that removes Obama-era transgender health care protections

(FILES) This picture taken onJanuary 28, 2009 shows Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis headquarters in Basel. Novartis announces 2,000 job losses, mostly in Switzerland and United States on October 25, 2011. AFP PHOTO SEBASTIEN BOZON (Photo credit should read SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images)

Gene therapy gets FDA approval -- and a $2 million price tag

Colorado is the first state to cap skyrocketing insulin co-pays

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell speaks as Sen. John Barrasso, Sen. John Thune, and Senate Majority Whip Sen. John Cornyn listen during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Republican Policy Luncheon July 11, 2017 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. Sen. McConnell announced that Senate will delay its recess to the third week of August.

Trump blow up leaves lawmakers worried about disaster aid, budget talks

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks to reporters outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2019. - In March 2018, US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced he was going to reintroduce for the 2020 census a question on citizenship abandoned more than 60 years ago. The decision sparked an uproar among Democrats and defenders of migrants -- who have come under repeated attack from an administration that has made clamping down on illegal migration a hallmark as President Donald Trump seeks re-election in 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Blue states push back on Trump admin with lawsuits charging health care discrimination

Eli Lilly's lower-priced insulin goes on sale amid drug price debate

Washington pioneers public health care option, but controlling costs remains tricky

House passes bills to lower drug prices but leaves Republicans fuming over Obamacare provisions

A staff member sorts through drugs drugs while filling a prescription at the Clay-Battelle Community Health Center's pharmacy March 21, 2017 in Blacksville, West Virginia.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives votes Thursday on a key plank of Trump's legislative agenda -- his plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, his predecessor's crowning domestic policy achievement. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Trump bucks his own party again. This time, it's on importing drugs from Canada

FALLS CHURCH, VA - NOVEMBER 24:
An abortion doula (Grace) holds hands with a patient during an abortion procedure at an abortion clinic (Falls Church Healthcare Center) in Falls Church, VA on November 24, 2017. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Alabama doctors who perform abortions could face up to 99 years in prison -- the same as rapists and murderers

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Alabama senators spar over restrictive abortion bill

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for its alleged role in the opioid crisis.

Pennsylvania attorney general sues Purdue Pharma over opioid epidemic

House chairmen send new letter over Justice Department handling of Obamacare

Generic drug companies, executives slapped with price-fixing lawsuit

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi departs her weekly press conference on January 31, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

House Democrats pass bill to roll back Trump guidance related to Obamacare

Government reports Obamacare coverage gains are starting to retreat

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Trump administration to require drug prices in TV ads

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, attends the 2019 annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2019. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

Buffett on health care initiative: We'll do our best

US First Lady Melania Trump announces her "Be Best" children's initiative in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, May 7, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

One year of Melania Trump's 'Be Best': Big ideas, little progress

DOJ lays out case for striking down Obamacare in its entirety

New Democratic proposal offers a middle ground on Medicare expansion

Patients are paying up to 20 times more for neurological drugs since 2004, study finds

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL - JULY 24: PJ Espinal (C) joins with other protesters against Republican senators who have not spoken up against Affordable Care Act repeal and demand universal, affordable, quality healthcare for all on July 24, 2017 in Fort Lauderdale, United States. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote tomorrow on the health care legislation after they twice postponed the vote. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Read: Justice Department filing saying Obamacare must be struck down

Stop the medical bill surprises

CNN reporter gets emotional over his story

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) speaks before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo By Michael Reynolds/Pool/Getty Images)

Grassley confronted at town hall about his votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act

Protesters supporting "Medicare for All" hold a rally outside PhRMA headquarters April 29, 2019 in Washington, DC. The rally was held by the group Progressive Democrats of America.

Dying man to Congress: GoFundMe is not a health care plan

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The French solution to US drug prices

Whistleblowers: Company at heart of 97,000% drug price hike bribed doctors to boost sales

A woman crosses a flooded street, in Natite neighbourhood, in Pemba, on the northeastern coast of Mozambique, Sunday, April, 28, 2019. Serious flooding began on Sunday in parts of northern Mozambique that were hit by Cyclone Kenneth three days ago, with waters waist-high in areas, after the government urged many people to immediately seek higher ground. Hundreds of thousands of people were at risk. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Save the Children says its running out of aid money to help Mozambique recover from monster cyclones

Trump administration may soon remove transgender health care protections