SUMMARY:From the Mueller investigation's end to renewed debate about health care, it's been a busy week in Washington. But how are these political issues resonating outside the nation's capital? Judy Woodruff talks to Kent State University professor and columnist Connie Schultz, and Chris Buskirk editor of conservative journal and website American Greatness, about what the Americans they talk to think.
SUMMARY: The day before this year's deadline to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, a judge in Texas ruled the law unconstitutional. As the case makes its way through the appeals process, Amna Nawaz sits down with Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News to discuss who's involved in the legal challenge and the "enormous disruption" that would result from invalidation of the law.
SUMMARY:Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any country in the world, and the pharmaceutical industry earns billions in profits each year. Critics blame Pharmacy Benefit Managers, or PBMs, for a portion of those high costs through their role as middlemen between insurance plans, drug makers and pharmacies—but PBMs say they save consumers money. NewsHour Weekend Megan Thompson reports.
MEGAN THOMPSON (NewsHour): So Falkowitz did some research online. His aunt was taking eight drugs for things like dementia and high blood pressure. She was paying close to $103 in insurance copays for those drugs every month. Falkowitz found he could get those exact same drugs for $65, if he paid out of pocket at an independent pharmacy, not using his aunt’s insurance plan at all. That’s nearly 40 percent less. Falkowitz manages a medical practice and deals with insurance plans all the time. He says it was a total surprise.
I am Retired U.S. Navy (22yrs) and a Vietnam Veteran. After my Navy retirement I was in the computer related industry, now retired. In 2000 I was a registered Republican and voted for George W. Bush. Six months of having Bush in the Whitehouse forced me to re-evaluate my political stance. I had always thought of myself as a Moderate Republican, but was a Republican by "default" NOT because of close examination of the GOP. Due to what has happened in America since 2000, I now consider myself a progressive, and registered as a Non-Affiliated voter.
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