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Trump seeks to base Medicare drug prices on lower overseas rates

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, taking aim at “global freeloading,” said on Thursday his administration would seek to lower prescription drug prices by basing what the government’s Medicare program pays for some medications on the lower prices paid in other countries. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally… Read More »

Trump mulls narrowing transgender rights

A recent memo by the Health and Human Services Department to other federal agencies in the Trump administration called for adopting a narrow definition of gender that would effectively roll back many legal protections granted to transgender people during the Obama administration. HHS called on government agencies to adopt a definition of gender that used… Read More »