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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., questions witnesses during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing federal response to COVID-19 on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Democrats don’t help the poor and won’t tax the rich

By Michael McKenna

Illustration on the virtues of telehealth systems by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Accelerated use of technology and data key to modernizing Medicare and Medicaid

By Joel White

Illustration on congressional controls on pharmaceutical (drug) prices by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Democrat price controls are yet another step toward socialized medicine

By Isabelle Morales

President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House, Aug. 10, 2022, in Washington. Biden is preparing to sign Democrats' landmark climate change and health care bill. It's the &quot;final piece&quot; of the president's pared-down domestic agenda as he aims to boost his party's standing with voters ahead of midterm elections. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to sign massive climate and health care legislation

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Illustration on the government impact on prescription drugs by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Inflation Reduction Act breaks the prescription-drug pipeline

By Dr. Tom Price

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

In Biden’s big bill: Climate, health care, deficit reduction

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

In this file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arrives to attend the first meeting of the interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

HHS Sec. Xavier Becerra uses swing-state stop to tout health wins in Biden bill

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People walk outside the U.S Capitol building in Washington, June 9, 2022. A Democratic economic package focused on climate and health care faces hurdles but seems headed toward party-line passage by Congress next month. Approval would let President Joe Biden and his party claim a triumph on top priorities just as November’s elections approach. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Democrats hopeful climate and health care bill will mobilize voters in vulnerable election year

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is seen in Silver Spring, Md., on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in this file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Biotech investors sound alarm on Senate drug-pricing bill

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

FILE - Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, June 22, 2022. Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party's election-year attempt to craft a scaled back version of the economic package that collapsed last year, Democratic aides have told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dems want to tax high earners to protect Medicare solvency

By Alan Fram - Associated Press

Medicare Attack and Drug Price Controls Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Price controls on drugs will create more inflation

By Brian McNicoll

President Joe Biden gives a thumbs up after speaking at Green River College, Friday, April 22, 2022, in Auburn, Wash. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden stumps for big-spending agenda as a way to alleviate rising costs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Biogen Inc., headquarters, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. Medicare says it’s considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug projected to drive up program costs. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

Medicare limits coverage of new Alzheimer’s treatment

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

A stronger, more sustainable Medicare

By Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD Director of Center for Medicare

The Biogen Inc., headquarters is shown March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. Biogen released a surprisingly low 2022 forecast Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, as the drugmaker deals with sluggish sales from an Alzheimer’s treatment initially hailed as a potential breakthrough drug. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Activists call for adding new Alzheimer’s drug to Medicare coverage

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the Daniel Technology Center of Germanna Community College – Culpeper Campus, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Culpeper, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden calls on Democrats to pass drug negotiation, extend Obamacare subsidies

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Youngstown City Health Department worker Faith Terreri grabs two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a distribution event, Dec. 30, 2021, in Youngstown, Ohio. The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to launch.The website, COVIDTests.gov, now includes a link for Americans to an order form run by the U.S. Postal Service where Americans can request four at-home tests per residential address. (AP Photo/David Dermer) **FILE**

Biden administration says Medicare enrollees can get free COVID tests by early spring

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - The Biogen Inc., headquarters is shown March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. A new $56,000-a-year Alzheimer’s medication that’s leading to one of the biggest increases ever in Medicare premiums is highlighting the limitations of President Joe Biden’s strategy for curbing prescription drug costs. Called Aduhelm, the medication from pharmaceutical company Biogen would be protected from Medicare price negotiations for over a decade under the Democratic drug pricing compromise before Congress. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

$56K Alzheimer’s drug avoiding Biden’s cost curbs, for now

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

Illustration on Medicare by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Keep your hands off my Medicare

By Lisa Grabert and Joe Grogan

FILE - Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Nov. 3, 2021, in Washington. Sanders is asking the White House to cut back a big Medicare premium hike set to take effect in weeks and tied to a pricey Alzheimer’s drug whose benefits have been widely questioned. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Sanders to Biden: Cut back looming Medicare premium hike

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press