A health care earthquake in Congress
Politico December 19, 2024
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HEALTH CARE UNCERTAINTY — After Congress spent years crafting new significant pharmacy benefit manager regulations and had agreed to a substantial health care package, posts on X from Elon Musk, who’s co-leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, helped upend the legislation just days before it was poised to become law.
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After offering no direction on how President-elect Donald Trump wanted Congress to operate in the lame-duck session, those in his orbit and eventually Trump weighed in Wednesday, derailing the stopgap spending package as the government is set to shut down Friday night. Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance threw in a last-minute request for Congress to address the debt ceiling...