Only Fun Drugs Should Cost Money
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Biden administration on Tuesday shared the first ten prescription drugs that it has chosen for price negotiations through Medicare. The Biden administration will try to lower Medicare prices for the drugs by negotiating with their respective manufacturers to ease the burden of their otherwise exorbitant costs.
Former employees at Twitter – a.k.a. X – have filed thousands of arbitration complaints against the company in an effort to get the severance pay that they were promised. To date, more than 2,200 cases are backed up in the JAMS arbitration system, and the fees X is on the hook for could amount to about $3.5 million.
And in headlines: the Biden Administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee voted to temporarily censure Representative Justin Jones, and Boston officially dropped gendered language from marriage certificates.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 30th. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Priyanka Arabindi. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm one of you to tell her, and this is what a day. |
| 0:06.6 | The pod that should have minded our own business on whether Kiki Palmer and Darius Jackson are still together, y'all. |
| 0:12.6 | Yeah, we thought they broke up, but last weekend, it appears that they celebrated her birthday together. |
| 0:18.3 | I mean, we don't know. We don't know anything. |
| 0:19.8 | Let's just be real. They can live their lives. |
| 0:22.0 | At least we got an usher song out of all of this mess. I'm grateful. |
| 0:30.9 | On today's show, Twitter, aka X faces thousands of cases brought by former employees. |
| 0:36.7 | Plus, newlyweds in Boston no longer have to share their sex or gender to get a marriage certificate. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm here for that. |
| 0:43.2 | But first, let's talk about a big win for consumers. |
| 0:47.6 | The Biden administration yesterday shared the first 10 prescription drugs that it has chosen |
| 0:52.4 | for price negotiations through Medicare. |
| 0:55.3 | Through this program, the Biden administration will try to lower the Medicare prices |
| 0:59.0 | for these drugs by negotiating with their respective manufacturers |
| 1:02.8 | to ease the burden of the otherwise exorbitant drug prices. |
| 1:07.2 | This is something that has been long awaited and was only possible because of Biden's |
| 1:11.9 | inflation reduction act that was passed last year. |
| 1:15.1 | Here is Biden talking about the victory yesterday. |
| 1:17.5 | We passed the inflation reduction act with no help from the other team. |
| 1:21.6 | Every single person on the other team in the Congress voted against it. |
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