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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) earlier this year approved Arkansas’ request to amend its existing Medicaid expansion waivers (“AR Works Amendment”) to impose an onerous work requirements, and eliminate key consumer protections in the state’s Medicaid program. Because the AR Works Amendment violates numerous provisions of…

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a regulation that could undermine the agency’s mission to protect human and environmental health. Purporting to advance transparency and aimed at what former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt calls “secret science,” the regulation would require research data underlying EPA regulatory actions to be made accessible to…

Cody Flack and Sara Ann Makenzie were long denied Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care in their home state of Wisconsin. They were denied coverage because Wisconsin is one of ten states with a policy on the books that categorically excludes coverage for gender-confirming care for transgender individuals enrolled in…

The Trump administration's recently issued "Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs" fails to address the root cause of high cost prescription drugs: pharmaceutical company profiteering on backs of consumers and taxpayers. The Blueprint lists broad policy objectives the administration may pursue to lower drug costs –…