The day is coming when consumers can go online and buy their brand-name prescription drugs directly from pharmaceutical manufacturers or through affiliated online distributors for much less than they are currently charged at local pharmacies. It is early in the process, but the proposed TrumpRx website could become the catalyst for some much-needed changes and health care savings. Read the full article on TheHill.com
Author: Merrill Matthews
Racial Outcomes in Maternal Mortality (Report Sept 2025)
This report to the Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was released in September. Merrill Matthews is the outgoing chair of the committee (after 17 years on the committee) and oversaw the hearings and production of this report. Click here to view the report.
A Republican plan for affordable health care
Republicans succeeded in quashing Democrats’ efforts to reauthorize the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsides — at least so far. Now it’s time for Republicans to put forward their own health care reforms that will increase access to a wide variety of affordable health insurance plans. And that appears to be their goal. Read the full article on TheHill.com