Now more than ever, we need to examine all approaches to connecting our vulnerable children, families and seniors living in Oregon’s rural communities with healthcare. We need to be acutely aware of all the options and support services available to ensure these neighbors have access to critical, affordable care. Places like Coos County deserve healthcare…
Drive any stretch of highway in North Dakota, and one is struck by the beauty of this state. Still, the freedom we feel when we travel our endless prairies reveals a stark truth: North Dakota has a health care access problem. It’s certainly no secret that we live in a rural state–the miles between our…
Now that a U.S. District Court has postponed the hospital industry’s legal challenge to cutbacks in the 340B drug discount program, it falls to Congress to reverse the Trump administration’s egregious new rules. Believe it or not, there’s hope, since the new rules benefit no one—quite literally. Legislation reversing them has even gained bipartisan backing…
As you and your readers may now be aware, the 340B Drug Pricing Program has been under siege for the past couple months. The program requires drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs to eligible health care organizations at significantly reduced prices, so that those savings can be passed on to the patients and the community…
Pressure over the status of a federal drug discount program has intensified on Capitol Hill as Medicare reimbursement cuts for 340B hospitals have officially gone into effect. On Friday, a federal court dismissed several hospital associations’ suit that sought to block the cuts and lawmakers geared up for a legislative battle that has grown increasingly…