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"There are issues of reimbursement, equitable access to vaccines and treatment, and distribution that need to be resolved," says Anne McDonald Pritchett, senior vice president of PhRMA.

The legislation would require the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate directly with drug manufacturers over the price of some high-cost drugs in the Medicare program.

Attorneys argued that the law, which limits how much patients have to pay out-of-network providers in emergencies and other scenarios, violated physicians' Fifth, Seventh and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

For millions of families living with chronic diseases or other debilitating conditions, inflation is proving a punishing scourge that could be harmful to their health.

WTW official: Dobbs decision raises questions with no immediate answers for employers.

"Our priority, our duty should be to Connecticut families and residents and small businesses, to protect them to make sure they don't have to pay more for health insurance and health care than they have to," Attorney General William Tong said. "And to ask, and to even require, the health insurance companies here today to do all they can to really serve their customers and not just extract as much as they can."