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Airline Trade Group: Los Angeles County tourism threatened by proposed credit card regulations

By LAX Leader News Service | May 1, 2024

New credit card regulations pending in the U.S. Senate could threaten California’s $134.4 billion tourism industry by eliminating airline credit cards and reward points for travelers, said Marli Collier, managing director at Airlines for America (A4A).

8 Los Angeles biopharma companies could be negatively impacted by Inflation Reduction Act drug provision

By LAX Leader News Service | Apr 22, 2024

A provision of the “Inflation Reduction Act” (IRA) could threaten investments in "small molecule" drug development, said the head of the Pasadena-based Pacific Research Institute (PRI).

CA Drug Cost Analyst: Health care orgs participating in federal drug discount program are not passing those discounts to patients

By LAX Leader News Service | Apr 9, 2024

A senior fellow at USC's Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics said health care organizations participating in a federal drug discount program might not actually be receiving the intended discounts from that program.