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New 2026 price negotiations: What the first cuts on high-cost drugs mean for pharmacies

Medicare’s 2026 drug price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act aim to lower the cost of expensive medications, bringing major changes for pharmacies, insurers, and beneficiaries. Read More

Trump forcing insurers to pass rebates to consumers won’t lower drug prices

President Trump’s recent speech about lowering drug price has been both lauded as long-overdue and derided as an overly-broad policy blueprint that lacks real action steps. Among the most absurd ideas ... Read More

Why your health insurance premiums keep rising

Health care costs are rising due to higher hospital prices, drug costs, and administrative expenses. More people are using medical services as delayed pandemic care catches up. Insurers are adjusting ... Read More

How Trump’s Online Drugstore May Affect Your Drug Costs

President Trump and top health officials announced a deal with Pfizer to try to lower Medicaid prices, and a website to help consumers buy drugs directly from manufacturers. By Rebecca Robbins ... Read More

Major insurers scale back Medicare Advantage and Part D plans for 2026

CVS Health, Humana, and UnitedHealth Group have announced that they will pull back on Medicare Advantage and Part D prescription drug plans next year. These changes are a response to financial ... Read More

Direct-To-Consumer Sales Can Fulfill Trump’s Drug Pricing Promises

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sally Pipes is a scholar and think tank CEO who writes on health care. "The White House would be wise to push DTC programs as a ... Read More

Medicare enrollment 2026; costs rise, and you might have to find drug plan on your own

New Jersey seniors face higher Medicare prescription drug prices and fewer plan choices for 2026. Many insurers are cutting commissions for brokers, potentially leaving seniors with less help to ... Read More

Pfizer OKs deal to lower drug costs for Medicaid

The most-favored-nation policy demands companies reduce Medicaid prices, increase the costs of their drugs overseas, promise to match foreign prices for future drugs to what they cost in the U.S. and ... Read More

Pfizer agrees to lower drug costs, others may, too, president says

Albert Bourla, chairman and chief executive officer of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, with, from left, Secretary of Health and Human ... Read More

States Can Lower Drug Costs Through Smart Regulation

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Fall 2025 Magazine. You can subscribe here. This is one of two arguments for and against state regulation of drug sales. Read an opposing viewpoint ... Read More