Sanders vows to oppose NIH nominee until Biden produces drug-pricing plan
By Dan Diamond; The Washington Post Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chair of the Senate health panel, is vowing to not move forward with President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health — or any health nominee — until he receives the administration’s “comprehensive” plan on lowering drug prices. “I will oppose all nominations until we have a very
How Merck intends to fight Medicare drug price negotiation
Analysis by Rachel Roubein with research by McKenzie Beard; The Washington Post Bernie Sanders urges HHS to take action on the price of Alzheimer’s drug. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is pressing the federal health department to take action on the price of an Alzheimer’s drug. A federal appeals court seemed skeptical of a nationwide pause on Obamacare’s no-cost preventive service
What’s in Sanders’ ‘bold’ plan for health care
By: Daniel Payne and Burgess Everett; Politico His effort is the latest sign the progressive stalwart is toggling between his activist persona while pressing for a deal on what he thinks can pass a narrowly divided Senate. Sen. Bernie Sanders is launching his latest push as one of the Senate’s most powerful committee chairs: to pour nearly $200 billion of
Is Bernie Sanders happy?
By: Kara Voght; The Washington Post He didn’t get to be president, but the senator from Vermont is spending his twilight years doing what he loves: Publicly grilling CEOs Bernie Sanders sits in the conference room of his Capitol Hill office wearing an unfamiliar countenance: The senator is beaming. He slaps a sheet of printer paper onto the table in
Historically Black medical schools urge more spending in hearing with Bernie Sanders
By: Jeff Amy; AP ATLANTA — To train more Black doctors, the federal government needs to bolster funding and make more training slots available for historically Black medical schools, leaders of those universities told U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday. “Our HBCU medical schools are the backbone of training Black doctors in this country.” Dr. Hugh Mighty, Howard University’s senior
Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders to introduce free school meals legislation
By: David Smith, The Guardian Representative Ilhan Omar, Senator Bernie Sanders and colleagues are set to introduce legislation on Thursday to revive one of the coronavirus pandemic era’s most popular social experiments: universal free school meals. The bill would permanently end child hunger in schools, they argue, by offering free breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a snack to all students from
