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Josh Stein: Bringing about the end of the fentanyl crisis in our lifetime
| August 19, 2024
We’re making progress, but the work is far from over. Every life lost to fentanyl is one too many. The fentanyl crisis doesn’t have one simple cause – nor does it have one silver bullet solution. That’s why I’m using every tool in my arsenal to tackle it. As Governor, I will keep working across the aisle to pursue common-sense solutions to the fentanyl crisis.
Two years in, the Inflation Reduction Act is lowering health care costs and creating a clean energy jobs boom in North Carolina
| August 16, 2024
The Inflation Reduction Act ensured that 135,000 North Carolinians were able to keep their health insurance, reduced the cost of insulin for nearly 57,000 North Carolina seniors, and incentivized manufacturers to invest in the state and create more clean energy jobs.
Biden-Harris administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations secure $6 billion in savings for taxpayers
| August 15, 2024
The White House estimates that these new prices will lead to around $6 billion in savings for the Medicare program in 2026. The new prices will be anywhere from 38% to 79% lower than the drugs’ list prices last year, saving seniors on Medicare an estimated $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2026 alone.
Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law
| August 12, 2024
2024 ELECTIONS | ABORTION | HEALTH | HEALTHCARE | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | women's health
Even as the Biden administration publicly warned hospitals to treat pregnant patients in emergencies, facilities continue to violate the federal law. The issue became a focus for the administration following reports of women being improperly treated in emergency rooms after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion more than two years ago.
Insulin price cuts for 154,000 North Carolina seniors through Biden-Harris initiative
| August 10, 2024
As a result of the Biden-Harris administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, Medicare recipients now pay no more than $35 a month for insulin. Carrol Olinger was panicking. It was 2022, and the retired Fayetteville teacher — disabled and between jobs — relied on Medicare to help pay for insulin to treat her type 1 […]