![]() Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) decide if medicines get covered and what you pay, regardless of what your doctor prescribes. “I had this realization,” said Carrie, who has a transgender child, “that there is no way forward that involves staying in Texas.” Following the rollout of the Texas directive, Carrie moved her family to Maryland for protection. As a result of the policy, parents could be brought up on charges of child abuse, as well as people who worked with trans kids if they didn’t report such families to state authorities. GREG ABBOTT issued a directive requiring the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents with medically transitioning kids. POLITICO spoke to more than a dozen trans adults and families with trans children, including CARRIE JACKSON, whose family was living in Texas when Gov. Annie, Joanne and Jael write that the fight over access to that care - like the fight over abortion rights and other issues at the intersection of health, politics, gender, culture and race - is impacting where Americans want to live, work and raise families. Increasingly, trans people are fearful of efforts by conservative governors and legislators to restrict access to medical care for gender dysphoria, a condition that stems from one’s lived experience of gender being different from the sex assigned at birth. who say policies that are limiting gender-affirming medical care in their states are forcing them to flee. SPECIAL REPORT - Our colleagues Annie Connell-Bryan, Joanne Kenen and Jael Holzman are up with a special report on families with transgender kids across the U.S. This might be good for PBM’s bottom line, but it can lead to higher costs for patients. Middlemen say they want lower prices, yet they often deny or limit coverage of lower-cost generics and biosimilars while giving preferential coverage to medicines with higher prices. Drop us a line with your own quiz questions: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza. Good Sunday morning, and thanks for reading Playbook. See answers below in the Playbookers section. It’s very hard not only to get to 218 that way. ADAM SCHIFF (D-Calif.) or ANDY BIGGS (R-Ariz.)? “Bigotry, hate, and antisemitism have absolutely no place in America - including at Mar-A-Lago.”ħ. “This is just another example of an awful lack of judgment from Donald Trump.” White House deputy press secretary ANDREW BATES or former Gov. “ KIM is a **** **** ****, and you can tell her I said that.”Ħ. “I told him he should definitely not run for President.” “Trump was really impressed with NICK FUENTES.” Trump or YE (formerly known as Kanye West) or JOE BIDEN? “And so - again - Trump puts his own ego before common sense, before tolerance, before judgment, before country.”ĥ. ![]() The NY Post Editorial board or NYT columnist MAUREEN DOWD’s right-wing brother, KEVIN? “One question we asked was: do you want Trump or do you want a fresh face? I think in our last poll over 50% said they wanted a fresh face.”Ĥ. “Trump has significant negatives that makes it very difficult for him to win a majority of the vote.” Republican pollster GLEN BOLGER or Trump national security adviser JOHN BOLTON? “I think we would all like Donald Trump to run again.”ģ. “I hope, someday, we won’t have to be responding to what former President Trump has said or done.” “There’s a significant number of people out there who really are opposed to him, and I don’t think will change their minds over the course of the next two years.”Ģ. Match the quotes with the correct speaker:ġ. ![]() And while you gather around the hearth with family and wait for tonight’s episode of “The White Lotus” to drop, see if you can answer these: If you’re in Washington, it’s cold and rainy. WHO SAID IT? - We hope everyone is enjoying the final hours of the long holiday weekend. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images DRIVING THE DAY Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Nov.
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