At any one time in Washington, D.C. there are thousands of individual battles going on over hundreds of issues, large and small. If the issue or bill is not headline-grabbing, like tax reform or Trump’s latest tweet, it may not get much attention, even if the end result ends up hurting the very people it is supposed to help.
Recently, the 340B program has come under heightened scrutiny and is now the subject of a lawsuit. 340B is a government-mandated program that began back in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Emerging new drugs and the “cocktails” used to fight HIV were prohibitively expensive.