Health Care Costs

In a recently published press release, the White House announced new actions to promote competition in health care and support lowering prescription drug costs for American families, including the release of a proposed framework for agencies on the exercise of march-in rights on taxpayer-funded drugs and other inventions, which specifies that price can be a factor in considering whether a drug is accessible to the public. This press release details new action to support lowering prescription drug costs and increase Americans’ access to life-saving medications, efforts to stop anticompetitive mergers and anticompetitive practices by dominant corporations in health care markets, and ...

The ASPE recently issued fact sheets for each state and the District of Columbia highlighting health care cost savings as a result of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Savings from Medicare Part D out-of-pocket costs, insulin, vaccines, and Marketplace premiums, and the latest enrollment data for Medicare, Medicaid and Marketplace are featured.