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Healthcare treatment decisions should be based on patient care, not economic interests and every patient should have access to the affordable medications they need.

The Southgate City Council voted to approve a zone change to allow a new residential development in the city, despite opposition from some residents, resulting in a $120 million-plus development and tax benefits of $10 million over 40 years to Campbell County, $48 million over 40 years to Campbell County…

On World AIDS Day, let’s remember disease is still a brutal killer

Improving health care for all Americans is a monumentally important and challenging task. Often, the finer policy details and decisions that can affect real, positive change within our health care system can get lost in the larger debate over how to most effectively improve access, increase quality and control costs. But these smaller policy reforms require our attention because they can greatly enhance our health care system overall.

Defenders of the federal 340B program, which requires drug companies to give discounts to eligible health care organizations, say it is vital as an economic lifeline for safety-net hospitals.

With all the recent talk about controlling skyrocketing drug prices, especially for those patients who cannot afford them, Congress should review the 340B program. Created in 1992, 340B was established to help vulnerable or uninsured patients afford their medications by providing discounted medicines to certain hospitals and specialty clinics.