The Food and Drug Administration plans to look to some unusual allies to limit the flood of the addictive pills health insurers and companies that manage prescription drug benefits.

For lower-income Americans, the bill carves into Medicaid, shifting poor people out of the program and into private coverage where they could face deductibles reaching thousands of dollars.

The Congressional Budget Office released its analysis of the revised GOP health plan, the Better Care Reconciliation Act.

This week marked the deadline for many insurers to file their premium rates for Obamacare participation in 2018.

Price also has been meeting with pharmacists, care providers and pharmacy-benefit managers in recent weeks to discuss ideas for making drugs more affordable.

Amid an outbreak of dangerous infections by pain drug abusers, the U.S. FDA has asked Endo to stop sales of its powerful opioid painkiller Opana ER.

Anthem, which currently oversees Affordable Care Act plans for about 1.1 million people in 14 states, is one of the largest of the multi-state insurers that hasnt pulled back sharply from selling individual plans in the ACA.

'Were getting closer to having a proposal that well be bringing up in the near future,' McConnell said.