Policy Blog

This week in health policy: the expiration of enhanced ACA marketplace subsidies hit roughly 22 million enrollees with sharp premium increases, while the Trump administration launched a sweeping healthcare fraud crackdown under the CRUSH initiative. Vaccine policy continued to roil as 15 states sued over childhood immunization rollbacks and the Casey Means surgeon general nomination drew bipartisan skepticism. Novo Nordisk announced list price cuts of up to 50% for Wegovy and Ozempic, and midsize biotechs organized against the Most Favored Nation drug pricing policy.