What’s Happening With the Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Lawsuits?
Over the past year, drugmakers and lobbyists have filed 10 different lawsuits against the federal government’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs via the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. It’s still early days for these cases, but so far the government has won “every substantive motion,” Zachary Baron, JD, of the O’Neill Institute for National […]
How COVID Lawsuits and Media Coverage Keep Misinformation Churning
Public health has had its day in court lately. And another day. And another day. Over the course of the pandemic, lawsuits came from every direction, questioning public health policies and hospitals’ authority. Petitioners argued for care to be provided in a different way, they questioned mandates on mask and vaccine use, and they attacked […]