President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act cracks down on Big Pharma price gouging, saving some seniors thousands of dollars per dose of medication Today, President Biden will visit the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland to announce that dozens of pharmaceutical companies will be required to pay rebates to Medicare for outrageous price…
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FACT SHEET: Actions Taken by the Biden-Harris Administration to Ensure Continued COVID-19 Protections and Surge Preparedness After Public Health Emergency Transition
Over the last two years, the Biden-Harris Administration has made tremendous progress in our ability to manage COVID-19 so that it no longer meaningfully disrupts the way we live our lives. As the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) ends on May 11, 2023, the Administration has taken significant steps to ensure all individuals have continued…
Statement by President Biden on FDA and CDC Authorizing Updated COVID-19 Vaccines
This week, we begin a new phase in our COVID-19 response. We are launching a new vaccine – our first in almost two years – with a new approach. For most Americans, that means one COVID-19 shot, once a year, each fall. Starting this week, at tens of thousands of convenient pharmacies, doctor’s offices, and community…
Readout of White House Follow Up Meeting with RSV Immunization Manufacturers
On Tuesday, senior Biden-Harris Administration officials met again with manufacturers and partners of RSV immunizations including Sanofi, AstraZeneca, and Thermo Fisher and urged them to work expeditiously to meet demand for immunizations this winter season through the commercial market. This meeting follows numerous in-person and virtual meetings, including last week, to continue to identify ways manufacturers…
Statement from President Joe Biden on World Malaria Day
Today—on World Malaria Day—we recommit to ending this disease for everyone, everywhere. Malaria is one of the world’s deadliest diseases. In 1951, the United States eliminated malaria in our country. And with strong bipartisan support in Congress, we’ve led the fight to eliminate this disease worldwide—saving nearly 12 million lives and preventing more than two billion…
The Vital Role of Research in Mpox Response: A Model for Other Diseases and Future Outbreaks
By Andrew Hebbeler, OSTP Principal Assistant Director for Health and Life Sciences Demetre Daskalakis, Deputy White House Coordinator for National Mpox Response On March 31, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the White House Mpox Response Team, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health and the U.S. Department of…
Remarks by President Biden on COVID-19 Vaccines for Children Under Five
Roosevelt Room 3:55 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thanks. As you can tell, I didn’t want to leave the clinic. Those children were wonderful. Thank you, Arseme [sic] — Arsema, and — for that introduction. And Jill and I were honored to visit your clinic today. We met with your fellow nurses…
FACT SHEET: Seniors Across the Country Are Saving Millions of Dollars in Health Care Costs Because of President Biden’s Prescription Drug Law
New data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows how much seniors in every state could save because of cost-saving provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released new data showing how President Biden’s prescription drug law is lowering health care costs and prescription drug prices for seniors across the…
Ambassador Susan E. Rice Remarks to Press on Lower Prescription Drug Prices
As Prepared For Delivery: Hello, everyone. Thank you, Kevin [Munoz]. Americans pay two to three times as much for prescription drugs than citizens in other countries. That’s why, since Day One, President Biden has been committed to lowering health care costs and expanding benefits for Americans. And he has done just that with the…
FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Announces Six-Week Campaign to Get More Americans their Updated COVID-19 Vaccine Before End of the Year
Administration to focus efforts on seniors and high-risk communities Today, the Biden Administration is announcing a six-week campaign through the end of the year urging Americans to get their updated COVID-19 vaccine. With winter and holiday gatherings right around the corner, more Americans getting their updated vaccine will help avoid thousands of preventable COVID-19 deaths.…
