{"id":3606,"date":"2025-05-06T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/republican-house-medicaid-cuts-plans-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-nih-clinical-center-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T23:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T23:03:29","slug":"republican-house-medicaid-cuts-plans-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-nih-clinical-center-dc-diagnosis-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/republican-house-medicaid-cuts-plans-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-nih-clinical-center-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: GOP hits resistance on Medicaid cuts, and a brewing plan to lower drug prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: GOP hits resistance on Medicaid cuts, and a brewing plan to lower drug prices<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/signup\/dc\/\">Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A horse named Journalism was favored to win the Kentucky Derby, but lost to a horse named Sovereignty. Don\u2019t go looking for metaphors or deeper meaning. A free press can thrive in nations that govern themselves. I don\u2019t need a horse racing tip sheet. But I\u2019ll gladly take news tips at <a href=\"mailto:John.Wilkerson@statnews.com\">John.Wilkerson@statnews.com<\/a> and via Signal at John_Wilkerson.07.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lobbying-against-medicaid-cuts\">Lobbying against Medicaid cuts<\/h2>\n<p>There comes a time in any effort to make significant cuts to a large government program that those who benefit from the program push back. That time has arrived, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/05\/gop-congress-medicaid-cuts-opposed-hospitals-doctors-patients\/\">according to Daniel Payne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/06\/republican-house-medicaid-cuts-plans-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-nih-clinical-center-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    John Wilkerson<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/06\/republican-house-medicaid-cuts-plans-most-favored-nations-drug-pricing-nih-clinical-center-dc-diagnosis-newsletter\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: GOP hits resistance on Medicaid cuts, and a brewing plan to lower drug prices You\u2019re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT\u2019s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine.\u00a0Sign up here\u00a0to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. A horse named Journalism was favored to win the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2158,2315,2208,2182,1428,2214,2148,2313,2176,2155,2151,2144,2180,858,2152,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-d-c-diagnosis","category-drug-development","category-drug-pricing","category-health","category-medicaid","category-nih","category-patients","category-pharma","category-pharmaceuticals","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-research","category-stat","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}