A sweeping $740 billion tax, climate, and health care bill passed by Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Sunday could lead to cheaper medications for Pennsylvanians if it's passed by the U.S. House and signed into law.

In a piece focused on the health care implications of The Inflation Reduction Act, the Post-Gazette examines the drug-pricing details: 

• The bill would cap insulin costs at $35 monthly for Medicare enrollees. 
• It would continue enhanced tax credits for Affordable Care Act health insurance plans, "a measure that could matter to the roughly 400,000 Pennsylvanians who are covered through the state's health insurance marketplace," the Post-Gazette explains. 
• Out-of-pocket drug spending by Medicare recipients would be capped at $2,000 annually; there is no cap now. Medicare would also be allowed to negotiate drug prices for "10 high-cost and biologic Medicare Part D drugs," a move that's expected to translate to consumer savings. 
• Also included: A measure to permanently extend an excise tax on domestic coal that funds health benefits and stipends for miners with black lung disease or the spouses who are left behind.

"There is a lot of potential there if they can make a sustained argument that John Fetterman is not who he says he is."

—Republican strategist Peter Towey on the party's attempt to undercut Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman's blue-collar image; Fetterman is set to return to the campaign trail on Friday in Erie

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IN MEMORIAM: Historian, best-selling author, and Pittsburgh native David McCullough has died at the age of 89, the AP reports. Pittsburgh's 16th Street Bridge was renamed in his honor in 2013. McCullough's first book was written about the Johnstown Flood and published in 1968.

STUMP STOP: Florida governor and rumored 2024 presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis is headed to Pennsylvania. DeSantis will campaign for Pennsylvania's GOP nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, in Pittsburgh — at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center — on Aug. 19, per PoliticsPA.

OPEN CALL: Most of the people portraying Native Americans at the annual French and Indian War reenactment in Penn Township, Westmoreland County can't trace their roots to any indigenous tribe. TribLIVE reports that led to a complaint to state officials, who asked that the event be canceled.

ROSE Q&A: Pete Rose was honored by the Phillies on Sunday. Asked about a statutory rape accusation that led to the scrapping of a similar nod in 2017, Rose told The Inquirer's Alex Coffey: "It was 55 years ago, babe."  

FOOD PREP: The Mechanicsburg-based grocery chain Karns Foods is responding to recession fears by adjusting its stock and dropping some higher-end products, per a paywalled Wall Street Journal article.