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January 19, 2011
Repeal of health reform could end coverage for millions of Americans, White House warns

The drive by Republicans to overturn the landmark health-reform legislation enacted last year threatens the health of as many as 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, the Obama administration’s top health official warned Tuesday.

December 7, 2010
White House: Health reform will save Medicare $3,500 per patient

WASHINGTON — Proclaiming the potential cost-saving benefits of its signature legislative accomplishment, the massive health-reform bill enacted earlier this year, the White House is projecting that the Affordable Care Act will reduce average costs per patient enrolled in Medicare by thousands of dollars over the next decade.


October 13, 2010
Enactment of new drug-disposal law a victory for pharmacy, NACDS says

Enactment by the White House of a landmark, pharmacy-friendly drug-disposal bill won quick praise from...

October 10, 2010
Medicare anti-fraud efforts re-ignite indy feud

A new push to crack down on the massive and costly fraud and abuse that...

September 23, 2010
Re-evaluating Chinese currency remains a bad idea

Herbert Hoover is alive and well -- and picking up his prescriptions at the local...

September 16, 2010
NACDS urging flexible health IT approach as HHS works to adjust patient records law

Shifting the nation’s sprawling and disconnected healthcare system to an integrated platform, based at last...

September 15, 2010
White House continues health IT drive as CMS offers matching funds to states

More money is flowing from the federal stimulus coffers to states as the White House...

September 9, 2010
Medicaid plans to end onerous AMP rules

It’s about time....

August 26, 2010
More progress needed in health information technology

Since the turn of the 21st century, community pharmacy and its technology allies have waged...

August 24, 2010
White House report on health IT, innovation hailed by e-prescribing pioneer Surescripts

A White House report encouraging the healthcare system’s transformation to health information technology drew a...

July 22, 2010
Beacon Community program seeks to curb diabetes across country

Vice President Joe Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius...

June 17, 2010
NCPA fights 'improper and unwarranted' Part B recoupment efforts

Independent pharmacy clearly has found its voice....

June 3, 2010
Commander in Chia?

When Chia Pet maker Joseph Enterprises first introduced its Chia Obama, honoring the country’s 44th...

January 28, 2010
With health reform outlook dimmed, pharmacy can’t abandon its agenda

Was the massive effort by the White House and congressional Democrats to overhaul the nation’s...

November 12, 2009
Independents’ lobby urges changes to health-reform bill passed in House

Like their chain pharmacy counterparts, the people who own and operate their own single-store or...

October 8, 2009
Health reform study buoys Dems as CBO predicts deficit reduction

After months of hard-edged wrangling in Congress, on the Sunday morning political gab fests, on...

May 14, 2009
NACDS, NCPA seek stimulus funds to build health IT, e-Rx infrastructure

The organizations representing the nation’s chain and independent drug stores have requested a chunk of...

February 5, 2009
Daschle withdraws, Obama loses point man on healthcare reform

Doesn’t anybody here pay their taxes? Tom Daschle, the former powerful leader of the Democrats...

August 17, 2008
Rx 2.0: The Future Is Now (Annual Pharmacy Report 2008)

After a monumental effort to educate lawmakers about the value of community pharmacy and the dangers the industry faces from new Medicaid reimbursement rules and other regulatory threats, the nation’s pharmacy leaders won a landmark victory last month when the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 became law, despite opposition from the Bush White House. Chain and independent pharmacy leaders deserve to pat themselves on the back. Nevertheless, there’s not much time for celebration. New challenges are waiting.

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