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The Health 202: Feds supercharged public health. Now the challenge is wisely spending it.


The Health 202: Feds supercharged public health. Now the challenge is wisely spending it.
Dan Diamond
After pleading poverty for years, public health has collected a coronavirus-related windfall. 
Now officials have a new challenge: responsibly spend the money  while convincing Congress to set aside funds for future priorities too.
I m worried that we will think this is the end of investing in public health, said Dara Lieberman, director of government relations at Trust for America s Health, an organization dedicated to boosting community health. 
Hundreds of billions of dollars flowed into public health in 2020.
Lawmakers greenlit historic stimulus packages in the rush to beat back the pandemic. ....

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The Health 202: The drug industry keeps ramping up its spending on lobbying


The Health 202: The drug industry keeps ramping up its spending on lobbying
Paige Winfield Cunningham
with Alexandra Ellerbeck
The pharmaceutical industry keeps turning up the dial on lobbying, setting massive new spending records in its intensive effort to influence Congress and the Biden administration.
Yet the administration isn’t capitulating to all of the industry’s demands.
To be fair, the White House did back away from including an industry-hated drug pricing proposal in its latest spending plan. Yet this week, President Biden angered drugmakers when he said he supports the waiving of intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines.
The industry increased its lobbying spending by 6.3 percent in the first quarter. ....

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