HHS Lays Off Lawyers Executing the Medicare Drug Price Cuts (1)

At least three government lawyers working on defending a major Biden-era drug pricing law were laid off in mass cuts across the agency this month, according to a source familiar with the terminations.

The attorneys were doing legal work implementing and defending the Inflation Reduction Act, a law that allows Medicare to directly negotiate down the price of drugs for the first time. Medicare is facing an onslaught of lawsuits filed by pharmaceutical companies and their allies arguing the new law is unconstitutional.

The Department of Health and Human Services hasn’t provided comprehensive numbers of employees that have been laid ...