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DENVER, Colo. 鈥?Millions of Americans struggle to afford the cost of prescription drugs. Now, for the first time in American history, the federal government will have the power to negotiate prescription drug prices. This change is because of the recent passing of
stanley water bottle the Inflation Reduction Act. It s something Kim Bimestefer, the executive director of the Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing, says is long overdue. Up until just the last few weeks, this country has not negotiated the price of drugs with manufacturers, so the rest of the world has some form of national healthcare and we are the outlier, Bimestefer said. A third of Americans don t take their drugs the way they are supposed to because they can t afford to. The Inflation Reduction Act will allow the government to negotiate the prices of 10 drugs. Those drugs that they are going to negotiate, they ll probably be those really high-cost drugs about less than 2% are so expensiv
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stanley cup scription drug spend, Bimestefer said. However, as Adam Fox, the deputy director of the Colorado consumer health initiative, explains, it s going to be a while. It is a bit of a long runway and realistically consumers aren t going to see some of those benefits probably until 2026, Fox said.Colorado is one state that just recently made strides in its drug importation program by signing contracts on both sides of the US/Canada border. Other states are watching what s happening. If approved Hesi Biden administration strongly supports D.C. statehood measure, urges swift action
Large US companies, some based in Georgia, are speaking out against the states recently-passed voting rights law.Coca-Colas CEO, which is based in Atlanta, told CNBCthe law is unacceptable and a step backwards. CEO James Quincey said the law is wrong and needs to be remedied, and we will continue to advocate for it both in private and now even more clearly in public. Other companies like Microsof
stanley mug t, American Express, Cisco, Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase, AFLAC, as well as several civil rights groups, have released statements expressing similar concerns that while they support fair and secure elections, they oppose efforts to restrict access.In response, Georgias governor, Brian Kemp, told CNBC on March 31, I would encourage these CEOs to look at other states that theyre doing business in and compare what the real facts are to Georgia. Delta Airlines, also based in Atlanta, said in a memo to s
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