Results for 340B

  1. Democrats Will Blame the GOP for Rural Healthcare. Big Pharma Is the One Killing It. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2026/08/01/democrats-will-bla…r-rural-healthcare-big-pharma-is-the-one-killing-it-n2205048
    industry.New data from HRSA, released July 13, shows ten drugs accounted for 28.6 percent of the record $100 billion spent through the 340B … Merck’s Keytruda alone accounted for $8.9 billion in 340B purchases. Gilead’s Biktarvy, the HIV therapy, was not far behind. … Darzalex Faspro, Opdivo, and Imfinzi round out the oncology group, with Descovy as the second HIV drug in the top ten.The 340B program…
  2. Eli Lilly Is Cutting Drug Discounts to Rural Hospitals. Are They Breaking the Law? https://redstate.com/joesquire/2026/06/24/eli-lilly-is-cutti…counts-to-rural-hospitals-are-they-breaking-the-law-n2203674
    The 340B Drug Pricing Program has been federal law since 1992, passed with broad bipartisan support. … The Association of American Medical Colleges called the policy a violation of the 340B statute. … On June 18, Lilly followed through and cut off 340B pricing for those noncompliant hospitals.…
  3. As More Americans Adjust Their Lives Due to Healthcare Costs, Drug Companies Gut Programs That Help https://redstate.com/joesquire/2026/03/28/as-more-americans…lthcare-costs-drug-companies-gut-programs-that-help-n2200727
    Even above $240,000 a year, one in four adults said health costs forced them to defer something significant.What 340B Does and Why … For rural hospitals, community health centers, and critical access facilities, often the only hospital within 35 miles, 340B savings … That trajectory intersects directly with the 340B fight.…
  4. Hawley, Tuberville Stand Against Big Pharma's End-Run Around Rural Health Care https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/12/23/hawley-tuberville…gainst-big-pharmas-end-run-around-rural-health-care-n2197408
    survey data from Advocates for Community Health, about 25% of the total savings large community health centers generate through 340B … Separately, 77% of participating health centers use 340B savings to support rural services. … Not towards states like mine that rely on 340B discounts for survival.”Tuberville emphasized that the 340B program costs taxpayers…
  5. Democrats Shut Down Government Over Healthcare Affordability, but Want to Gut Vital Rural Drug Program https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/11/15/democrats-shut-dow…ordability-but-want-to-gut-vital-rural-drug-program-n2196232
    Then they spent late 2025 fighting a shutdown over healthcare costs.What 340B Actually DoesCongress created the 340B program in 1992 … Drug manufacturers fund it entirely.In 2022, 340B hospitals provided nearly $100 billion in community benefits. … She’s right.But earlier that year, three Democratic senators worked with Republicans on 340B reforms.…
  6. Republicans in Virginia (and Elsewhere) Must Champion Rural Healthcare Over Big Pharma's Lobbying https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/11/25/republicans-in-vir…champion-rural-healthcare-over-big-pharmas-lobbying-n2182481
    This divergence coincided with a perceived weakening of healthcare support, including a failure to robustly back 340B. … voters across the nation.What Is the 340B Program? … The state’s slight shift away from Republican dominance coincided with weaker 340B protections.…
  7. Will Red-State Hospitals Be Left to Fail or Will Taxpayers Foot the Bill? A Major Bailout Could Be Coming https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/10/30/will-red-state-hos…ayers-foot-the-bill-a-major-bailout-could-be-coming-n2181320
    close these hospitals are to financial collapse.For many of these hospitals, the only lifeline has been a federal program called 340B … If they succeed, hospitals may face closure—and rural communities will suffer the most.What Is 340B, and Why Does Big Pharma Want It … The 340B program has done exactly that—and it hasn't cost taxpayers a dime.…
  8. Another State Fights Back Against Big Pharma to Protect Rural Citizens https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/04/19/another-state-figh…gainst-big-pharma-protecting-rural-citizens-against-n2173015
    to protect rural citizens against corporations attempting to skirt federal rules.Mississippi recently passed a law enforcing rule 340b … Tate Reeves (R) signed into law today a bill to bar drugmaker 340B contract pharmacy restrictions and certain 340B-specific pharmacy … The law, which prohibits drug manufacturers from restricting 340B drug access to contract pharmacies of any type of covered entity…
  9. How Much of Big Pharma's $10 Million in Lobbying Was to Kill This Drug Discount Program? https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/07/03/how-much-of-big-ph…in-lobbying-was-to-kill-this-drug-discount-program-n2176352
    readiness" presumably for bipartisan-friendly branding purposes), PhRMA's second-biggest lobbying priority remains killing off the 340B … Specifically, the Gang of Six, which includes Republican Senators Thune, Moran, and Moore Capito (two of whose states have moved to protect 340B … worth bearing in mind that big lobbying figure, as well as Big Pharma's geographic footprint and where states have moved to protect 340B
  10. Trump Stands Firm Against Big Pharma, Preserves Lifeline for Rural Hospitals https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/03/29/trump-stands-firm…t-big-pharma-preserves-lifeline-for-rural-hospitals-n2187254
     Despite a coordinated pressure campaign, Trump’s administration continues to support the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program, a … critical tool for hospitals that serve low-income and rural communities.What Is the 340B Program—and Why Does It Matter? … Arkansas passed legislation to protect the 340B program at the state level—and Big Pharma sued.…
  11. Big Pharma Is Having to Pay Refunds for Upcharging Rural, Largely Conservative Communities https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/09/20/big-pharma-is-havi…r-upcharging-rural-largely-conservative-communities-n2164051
    But AstraZeneca isn’t alone in cracking down on drugs sold under the 340B program. … AZ, Eli Lilly, Novartis and Sanofi to comply with 340B requirements. … The group alleges the companies “flouted the 340B statute and regulation by openly refusing to sell 340B discounted drugs to covered…
  12. For Some Reason, John Boehner Thinks Obamacare Is Mostly Gone https://redstate.com/joesquire/2021/04/23/for-some-reason-john-boehner-thinks-obamacare-is-mostly-gone-n367279
    introduced legislation to limit the orphan drug exclusion to a drug’s orphan purpose and allow rural and cancer hospitals to access 340B
  13. Countdown to 2018: Could Joe Manchin Be Vulnerable? https://redstate.com/joesquire/2017/02/14/countdown-2018-joe-manchin-vulnerable-n67829
    Price is known in health care circles to be an ardent defender of the 340B drug discount program, which at no taxpayer cost essentially … Manchin has supported 340B, albeit perhaps the most notable example of that came before the industry started waging an all-out war … Notably, 340B is one thing that has blocked Mylan making even more out of its EpiPen price hikes, because the program does cover EpiPens…
  14. Democratic Governors Do Big Pharma’s Bidding By Going After Key Drug Discount Program https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/02/28/democratic-governo…mas-bidding-by-going-after-key-drug-discount-program-n709578
    be succeeding in getting some Democrats to dabble in doing a little of Big Pharma’s bidding on a major priority: Paring back the 340B … Ned Lamont has filed his own bill, as the governor, to increase administrative burdens on 340B providers in one of the key ways Big … The ostensible goal of making facilities file annual reports disclosing 340B drug revenues and detailing how they use money banked…
  15. Want Lower Drug Costs? Don't Slip It Into a Socialist Grab Bag of a Bill https://redstate.com/joesquire/2021/11/24/want-lower-drug-costs-dont-slip-it-into-a-socialist-grab-bag-of-a-bill-n480815
    require them to provide discounted drugs to certain health care entities, many of them in rural areas, covered by something called the 340b … “The status quo is not sustainable, so if confirmed what additional steps could HHS take to protect the [340b] program?…
  16. Big Pharma Sues Louisiana Because the State Says You Can't Make Medications More Expensive https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/10/27/big-pharma-sues-lo…state-says-you-cant-make-medications-more-expensive-n2165599
    Big Pharma has been working overtime nationwide anywhere they can in order to destroy the 340B drug discount program as we know it … filed a lawsuit Friday in Louisiana Western District Court challenging a state statute regulating the administration of the federal 340B
  17. Inflation Is Coming for Drug Prices Next, and the Biden Administration Could Do More About It https://redstate.com/joesquire/2022/01/25/inflation-is-comin…and-the-biden-administration-could-do-more-about-it-n512310
    Trump who made drug pricing a big issue in his 2016 campaign and subsequent administration or trying to eliminate or curtail the 340B
  18. Red States Push Back Against Big Pharma, Fight to Protect Drug Discount Program https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/05/12/red-states-push-ba…st-big-pharma-fight-to-protect-drug-discount-program-n744899
    Andrew Cuomo that would have the state government take over all drug purchasing and suspend 340b. … against hospitals that participate in the 340b program. … to deny 340b hospitals the full reimbursement for the medications they prescribe.…
  19. Gilead Sciences Is Trying to Limit Discount Drug Options https://redstate.com/joesquire/2022/03/29/gilead-sciences-is-trying-to-limit-discount-drug-options-n540719
    Chuck Grassley over drug pricing— and working to kill the 340B drug discount program.…
  20. Louisiana Enacts Law to Hold Big Pharma Accountable, Protect Rural Communities https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/06/29/louisiana-enacts-l…old-big-pharma-accountable-protect-rural-communities-n768912
    drug discount program at a time when it has been under siege from blue states including California and New York. 340b is a federal … Andrew Cuomo that would have the state government take over all drug purchasing and suspend 340b. … against hospitals that participate in the 340b program.…
  21. More 'Bidenomics' Hits Rural Americans as Democrats Continue to Try and Kill Valuable Drug Program https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/07/29/more-bidenomics-hi…crats-continue-to-try-and-kill-valuable-drug-program-n784298
    Some blue states have taken a hatchet to the 340B drug discount program, which disproportionately helps rural, working-class populations…
  22. Big Pharma Spending Big Bucks to Keep the Government on Their Side - At Your Expense https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/11/29/big-pharma-spendin…o-keep-the-government-on-their-side-at-your-expense-n2166955
    Their top policy priority, based on their own website, is gutting the 340B drug discount program I've written about here, which deep…
  23. Bill Cassidy Suddenly Remembers He Represents Louisiana, Not Big Pharma, in Washington D.C. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/09/25/bill-cassidy-sudde…epresents-louisiana-not-big-pharma-in-washington-dc-n2179791
    obvious reason that I live here and host a radio show here, it’s one of the states that has passed state-level protection of the 340B … A bill he introduced in 2018 would have banned new enrollments by hospitals in 340B for two years, flat out. … These restrictions limit covered entities’ ability to dispense 340B drugs from more than one contract pharmacy.…
  24. Why Congress’ Quiet 'Gang of Six' Could Threaten Healthcare Access for Rural Communities Nationwide https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/09/28/why-congresss-quie…healthcare-access-for-rural-communities-nationwide-n2179883
    debate is a bipartisan group of senators, informally dubbed the "Gang of Six," who are quietly working on potential changes to the 340B … Stabenow (MI), Ben Cardin (MD), and Tammy Baldwin (WI), in tackling the future of this crucial program.For those unfamiliar, the 340B … Across the country, rural hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open, and the 340B program is a lifeline.…
  25. Missouri Voters Side With Candidate Who Backs Popular Drug Discount Program Big Pharma Is Trying to Kill https://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/08/10/missouri-voters-si…drug-discount-program-big-pharma-is-trying-to-kill-n2177957
    Josh Hawley, Ashcroft-- the other "biggest name" contender called for outright “repeal[ing]” the 340B drug discount program that benefits … neutral among three Republican candidates.Earlier this year, Missouri legislators overwhelmingly passed legislation to protect the 340B … style Republicans might point to, rural, working-class Americans—often derided as “Trumpers”— disproportionately benefit from 340B