NJ.com Article RatingYou'd pay only $35 a month for insulin under drug price bill the House just passed
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "The federal legislation would cover the majority of New Jersey residents who have private insurance and those on a Medicare prescription drug plan." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Today, it's the government fixing the price for insulin, said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington, the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "One of them was Rep. Chris Smith, R-4th Dist., who joined all 10 New Jersey Democrats in supporting the bill." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Gov. Phil Murphy and state legislators have proposed legislation to limit the cost of insulin and other drugs such as asthma inhalers, but their bill would affect only state-regulated insurance plans such as Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, which cover about one-third of residents." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "And last year, the House included a provision to allow some Medicare price negotiations in President Joe Biden's $1.75 trillion spending bill that also would expand funding for child care, increase health coverage, fight climate change and address the Republican tax law's $10,000 cap on deducting state and local taxes." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd Dist., voted no." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "One in four Americans who need insulin report either having cut back or skipped doses because the cost is simply too high, said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who led the debate on the House floor." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "That is heartbreaking and unacceptable, said Pallone, D-6th Dist." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Pallone said he still wanted Congress to pass a more comprehensive drug pricing bill, but needed to address this issue immediately." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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53% : The federal legislation would cover the majority of New Jersey residents who have private insurance and those on a Medicare prescription drug plan.*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.