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Sen. Bernie Sanders held up the vote for months in a failed effort to push President Joe Biden to do more on drug pricing.

Connecticut's state employee health plan was on course to spend $30 million this year on a class of diabetes drugs that is exploding in popularity for weight loss.

It’s more likely the bill is coming due for China’s prolonged Covid lockdown than a novel virus emerging.

For 12 years, a Department of Transportation employee fraudulently enrolled his sister and niece on his federal health benefits plan. He claimed the two were his wife and stepchild.

The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees health insurance for 8 million federal workers and their families at a cost of more than $60 billion a year, has never checked the eligibility of those on its rolls.

The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees health insurance for 8 million federal workers and their families at a cost of more than $60 billion a year, has never checked the eligibility of those on its rolls.

The move comes just weeks before the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that could prohibit brick-and-mortar pharmacies from dispensing the commonly used abortion pill.

At POLITICO’s Health Care Summit, the West Virginia Democrat takes aim at the president on fentanyl overdoses and border enforcement.

What happened in North Carolina is playing out across the U.S. as large employers try to limit the costs of the expensive new generation of weight-loss drugs.