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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., gestures after being introduced before a general election campaign event with Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Friday, July 13, 2018, in Philadelphia. Harris is headlining a pair of fundraisers for Casey. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Senate Democrats offer resolution to protect Obamacare

Senate Democrats on Thursday pressured Republican leaders to step in and protect Obamacare from a state-driven lawsuit that threatens Obamacare's main protections for sicker Americans, saying President Trump's refusal to defend the program leaves them no choice.

July 19, 2018
This Oct. 25, 2011, file photo shows the logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG on one of their buildings in Basel, Switzerland. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP, File)

Novartis joins Pfizer in deferring drug-price hikes

Novartis on Wednesday became the second major drug company to defer price increases in 2018, citing a "dynamic environment" in the U.S. as President Trump attempts to swat away critics and use market-based pressure to bring costs down.

July 18, 2018
State lawmaker Rep. Christy Perry, R-Nampa, who has been an advocate of the Medicaid expansion initiative, speaks in Boise, Idaho, Friday, July 6, 2018, to a group of volunteers who gathered over 70,000 voter signatures to place the measure on this November's ballot. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP)

Idaho voters to decide whether to expand Medicaid

Idaho voters will decide this fall whether to expand Medicaid under Obamacare, state Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said Tuesday, after proponents turned in more than enough signatures to put the issue on the general-election ballot.

July 17, 2018
An employee works among the shelves of the flagship Dougherty's Pharmacy in Preston Royal Village on Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

FDA eyes broader range of over-the-counter drugs

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is pushing to let consumers purchase more medicines without prescriptions, saying better labeling and digital apps that let patients "self-select" drugs would expand access to cholesterol-reducing pills, opioid overdose-reversing naloxone and other drugs.

July 17, 2018
In this June 15, 2017, file photo, then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The government wasted at least $341,000 on travel by ousted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, including booking charter flights without considering cheaper scheduled airlines, an agency watchdog said Friday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tom Price’s chartered trips wasted more than $340K: IG report

The Health and Human Services Department flouted federal regulations when it let former secretary Tom Price use chartered planes instead of looking for cheaper options, squandering $341,000 in federal funds, an agency watchdog reported Friday.

July 13, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, right, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin wait in the East Room before President Donald Trump announces his nominee for the Supreme Court at White House, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Jeff Sessions launches operation to crack down on fentanyl crimes

Saying there's "no such thing as a small case," Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered lieutenants in areas with the highest overdose rates to doggedly prosecute every case involving fentanyl or another synthetic opioid, saying too many lives are being lost to the potent drugs.

July 12, 2018
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, Texas Republican. (Associated Press/File)

House GOP debates Obamacare subsidies

With their Obama repeal efforts failed and with customers howling over rising costs, House Republicans went back to the drawing board Wednesday looking to come up with new solutions to boost consumer choices and free businesses from the 2010 law's punishments.

July 11, 2018
FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 file photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen, also known as Percocet, in New York. Cities and counties of all sizes have sued companies that make and distribute prescription opioids. Among the plaintiffs so far: Philadelphia; the state of Ohio; Princeton, West Virginia; the Cherokee Nation; and a consortium of counties across Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Hundreds of Ohio Medicaid enrollees at risk of opioid overdose: HHS IG

Rogue prescribers and Medicaid "doctor shoppers" are using taxpayer-funded insurance to fuel the deadly opioid epidemic, according to a new audit Tuesday that found 1 in 6 people on Ohio's government-run health program for the poor were prescribed opioids and hundreds of them were at "serious risk" of overdosing.

July 10, 2018
This April 6, 2016, file photo shows the Pfizer logo appearing on a screen above its trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **

Donald Trump lashes out at drug company for price hikes

President Trump, who recently predicted "voluntary, massive drops" in drug costs, accused a leading pharmaceutical company Monday of jacking up prices "for no reason" and taking advantage of American consumers.

July 9, 2018