Politico December 6, 2024
By Ben Leonard and Chelsea Cirruzzo

With help from Daniel Payne, Kelly Hooper and Carmen Paun

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THE REGS ARE COMING — The first Trump administration took or mulled a slew of regulatory actions in its final weeks, including significant changes to Medicaid, term limits for top federal health scientists and a plan to lower drug prices by tying government payments for medicines to lower prices paid abroad.

“The Trump administration opened up the fire hose in [its] last month,” said Jeffrey Davis, health policy director at McDermott+ Consulting.

A similar flood of Biden administration regulatory actions could be forthcoming, though the incoming Congress or the Trump administration could overturn or discard them — Biden, for example, pulled Trump’s drug price proposal and Medicaid...

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