(Anchorage, AK) – Acting Alaska Attorney General Cori Mills has joined a coalition of 43 states and territories announcing a $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz Inc. to resolve allegations that the generic drug manufacturer engaged in widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to […]
“The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, ‘a pretty big win,’” said one policy expert. US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins bragged on Tuesday that the Trump administration has now “moved 5 million people off food stamps,” an outcome that she hailed as a significant victory even amid mounting reports of families with children struggling to afford […]
Under a new policy the administration is defending in court, low-income people with cancer, HIV, Parkinson’s, and other life-threatening illnesses must prove they’re too sick to work or risk losing their health insurance. A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would […]
“We’re really crushing people who are desperately trying to pay their bills,” said a chief executive at a nonprofit hospital group. Months after congressional Republicans refused to extend enhanced subsidies for Americans who receive their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, hospitals across the US are seeing a surge in uninsured patients seeking emergency medical care. According to […]
