August 25, 2016

Mylan, the maker of the EpiPen, announced on Thursday that it would offer 50 percent-discounts to some patients who depend on the life-saving allergy shot. The move comes after the company received attention for jacking up the price of the device by 500-percent since 2009. Mylan executives have been met with widespread public ridicule as a result–criticism that has reverberated around Congressional offices amid the summer recess. “As a mother, I can assure you, the last thing that we would ever want is no one to have…

Keep Reading

Federal appellate judges in Boston affirmed a lower court’s ruling striking down a tax in Puerto Rico that targeted the crisis-stricken island’s largest businesses—one that would have exclusively impacted Walmart. The First Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that a Federal District Judge in Puerto Rico was correct earlier this year, when he declared the levy to be unconstitutionally discriminatory. The tax at the heart of dispute was passed by the Puerto Rican government in 2015, as part of efforts to raise money amid a…

Keep Reading