Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Wednesday that federal health officials had delivered “a scheduling recommendation for marijuana” to the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Senate Democrats confirmed that HHS’s advice was to ease up. President Biden had asked HHS to review marijuana’s legal classification last October, at the same time he pardoned thousands…
The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled the first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price negotiations, promising billions of dollars in savings for the federal government and the nine million Medicare beneficiaries taking at least one of the popular medications. Medicare has been banned from directly negotiating lower drug prices since 2003, but the Inflation Reduction…
Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: A terrible gold deal for retirees Gold IRAs are no safe haven, said Jeremy B. Merrill and Hanna Kozlowska in The Washington Post. Gold IRA investment companies like Lear Capital and Hartford Gold Group typically promote their products as…