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President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ozempic, Wegovy and other drugs are among 15 selected for Medicare’s price negotiations

The Biden administration says popular weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have been added to Medicare’s list of medications that will be negotiated directly between the government and drug manufacturers.

FILE - Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home, March 1, 2024, in Front Royal, Va. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Cheap Ozempic? How millions of Americans with obesity may get access to costly weight-loss drugs

President Joe Biden speaks as first lady Jill Biden looks on at a Friendsgiving event with service members and their families in the Staten Island borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 25 2024. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs for millions of obese Americans

FILE - Linda McMahon speaks during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Nov. 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump picks Dr. Oz to run Medicare and Medicaid, Linda McMahon for Education, Lutnick for Commerce

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on lowering the cost of prescription drugs, at NHTI Concord Community College, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden says global leaders are terrified of Trump and quietly tell him, ‘He can’t win’

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs

Biden proposes Medicare and Medicaid cover costly weight-loss drugs

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Prescription drug deals are expected to save billions for taxpayers

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10 drugs targeted for Medicare price negotiations as Biden pitches cost reductions

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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris chats with the hosts during a commercial break at The View, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in New York. From left are Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Harris and Alyssa Farah Griffin. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Harris proposes expanding Medicare to cover in-home senior care

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and President Joe Biden depart after speaking about the administration's efforts to lower prescription drug costs during an event at Prince George's Community College in Largo, Md., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House says prescription drug deals will produce billions in savings for taxpayers, seniors

Montana’s largest nursing home prepares to close following patient safety violations

President Joe Biden speaks during a presidential debate hosted by CNN with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

At debate, Biden meant to say he had beaten ‘big pharma,’ not Medicare

Packages of the overdose antidote naloxone await use on Thursday, June 6, 2024, at OnPoint NYC, an overdose prevention center in New York. According to a study published Monday, June 17, 2024, in JAMA Internal Medicine, people on Medicare who survived a drug overdose in 2020 were much more likely to later receive opioid painkillers than any medication to treat addiction — and some went on to die of an overdose. (AP Photo/Carla K. Johnson)

Lost chances to treat overdose survivors are documented in new Medicare study

FILE - President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Medicare bill in Independence, Mo., July 30, 1965. At right is former President Harry Truman. The Supreme Court's pending Idaho abortion ruling may hinge on how federal spending power might protect doctors against a state's criminal code. For guidance, the justices can look to the very beginning of Medicare in the 1960s, when the promise of federal funding finally persuaded hospitals in the Jim Crow South to desegregate. (AP Photo, File)

Can Medicare money protect doctors from abortion crimes? It worked before, desegregating hospitals

FILE - Social Security Administration commissioner Martin O'Malley testifies on Capitol Hill, March 20, 2024, in Washington. The go-broke dates for Medicare and Social Security have been pushed back as an improving economy has contributed to changed projected depletion dates, according the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Monday, May 6, 2024. O'Malley called the report "a measure of good news," but said, "Congress still needs to act in order to avoid what is now forecast to be, in absence of their action, a 17% cut to people's Social Security benefits." (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates are pushed back in a ‘measure of good news’

Court says judge had no authority to halt Medicare Advantage plan for Delaware government retirees

FILE - Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home, March 1, 2024, in Front Royal, Va. The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy may be paid for by Medicare — as long as patients using it also have heart disease and need to reduce the risk of future heart attacks, strokes and other serious problems, federal officials said Thursday, March 21. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Medicare can pay for obesity drugs like Wegovy in certain heart patients

Cigna trims portfolio by selling Medicare business for $3.7 billion to Health Care Service Corp.

FILE - A waist is measured during an obesity prevention study in Chicago, Jan. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

New weight loss drugs are out of reach for millions of older Americans because Medicare won’t pay

Community Health Network to pay government $345M to settle Medicare fraud charges

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to lower prescription drug costs and protect Social Security and Medicare, Nov. 5, 2022, in Joliet, Ill. The Biden administration says the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs it selected for Medicare’s first price negotiations have agreed to participate. Tuesday's announcement clears the way for talks that could lower their costs in coming years and gives the White House a potential political win heading into next year’s presidential election. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden says that all 10 drugs targeted for the first Medicare price negotiations will participate

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. Biden is trumpeting Medicare’s new powers to negotiate directly with drugmakers on the cost of prescription medications, but a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that any immediate political boost that Biden gets may be limited. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden’s Medicare price negotiation push is broadly popular. But he’s not getting much credit

President Joe Biden speaks during an event on prescription drug costs, in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

10 drugs targeted for Medicare price negotiations as Biden pitches cost reductions

Health care provider to pay largest Medicare fraud settlement in Maine history

FILE - Unidentified road workers wear protective gear against possible asbestos contamination as they load material from a road resurfacing project in downtown Libby, Mont., April 28, 2011. A health clinic in the Montana town that's plagued by deadly asbestos contamination is liable for almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false claims for government benefits. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Judge orders Montana health clinic to pay nearly $6 million over false asbestos claims

First lady Jill Biden speaks during an event with the National Education Association in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jill Biden welcomes proposal for Medicare to pay for navigation services for cancer patients

FILE - This image provided by Eisai in January 2023 shows vials and packaging for their medication, Leqembi. On Thursday, July 6, 2023, U.S. officials granted full approval to the closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, clearing the way for Medicare and other insurance plans to begin covering the treatment for people with the brain-robbing disease. (Eisai via AP, File)

Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi has full FDA approval now and that means Medicare will pay for it

FILE - Pharmaceuticals are seen in North Andover, Mass., on June 15, 2018. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, is suing over plans laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act to give the federal coverage program more control over its pharmaceutical costs. PhRMA said in a federal court complaint filed Wednesday, June 21, 2023, that the act forces drugmakers to agree to a “government-dictated price” under the threat of a heavy tax. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

Drugmaker lobbying group sues over plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices

FILE - A Merck scientist conducts research on Feb. 28, 2013, in West Point, Pa. Merck is suing the federal government Tuesday, June 6, 2023, over a plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices, calling the program a sham equivalent to extortion. The drugmaker is seeking to halt the program, which was laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act and is expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars in the coming years. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Merck sues federal government, calling plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices extortion

Former New Hampshire doctor pleads guilty in $1.9 million Medicare fraud scheme

FILE - This June 21, 2013, file photo, shows the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. The federal government wrote duplicate checks to doctors who provided care for veterans, costing taxpayers $128 million in extra payments over the last five years, according to a new watchdog report out this week. In nearly 300,000 cases, private doctors were paid twice – once by the Veterans Health Administration and another time by Medicare – for the same care provided to veterans from 2017 to 2021, the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found in its report. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Feds wrote $128M in duplicate checks to docs, report finds

FILE - A Social Security card is displayed on Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a majority support raising taxes on the nation's highest earners to keep Medicare running as is. The new findings, revealed in a March poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, come as both safety net programs are poised to run out of enough cash to pay out full benefits within the next decade. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Most oppose Social Security, Medicare cuts: AP-NORC poll

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. Social Security and Medicare, the financial safety nets millions of older Americans rely on and millions of young people are counting on, will run short on funds to pay full benefits within the next decade, a new annual report released Friday warns. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade

President Joe Biden speaks about health care and prescription drug costs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says he’s focused ‘intensely’ on lowering drug costs

President Joe Biden delivers remarks to the 2023 International Association of Fire Fighters Legislative Conference, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden plans new taxes on the rich to help save Medicare

FILE - In this June 8, 2015, file photo specialist Anthony Rinaldi works adjacent to the post that handles Humana, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The health insurer Humana will stop providing employer-sponsored coverage as it stays focused on bigger parts of its business, like Medicare Advantage. The insurer said Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 it will leave the employer-sponsored business over the next 18 to 24 months. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Insurer Humana lays out employer-sponsored coverage exit

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to protect Social Security and Medicare and lower healthcare costs, Feb. 9, 2023, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla. It seems like no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits, including Biden, who is already telling voters that his upcoming federal budget proposal will “defend and strengthen” the programs. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Social Security and Medicare: Troubling math, tough politics

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference at the HHS Humphrey Building, Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. The Biden administration estimated Jan. 30, 2023, that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers’ tab for Medicare Advantage care. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Feds expect to collect $4.7B in insurance fraud penalties