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Money, Meds, and Medicare

Photo montage of currency with pills on top and an upward arrow indicating the drug tariffs effect on affordability

Tariffs on imported drugs threaten to drive up costs — and disrupt care Fact checked by Shannon Sparks The  pills that keep millions of Medicare beneficiaries moving through the day are rarely the simple, local products their bottles suggest. Instead, they are the result of a long, global relay: chemical precursors made in one country, […]