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This State Isn鈥檛 Waiting for Biden To Negotiate Drug Prices

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As the federal government negotiates with drugmakers to lower the price of 10 expensive drugs for Medicare patients, impatient legislators in some states are trying to go even further. Leading the pack is Colorado, where a new Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board is set to recommend an 鈥渦pper payment limit鈥 for drugs it deems unaffordable. In late […]

Move to Protect California鈥檚 Indoor Workers From Heat Upended by Cost Questions

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A years-long process that would have created heat standards for California workers in warehouses, steamy kitchens, and other indoor job sites catapulted into chaos Thursday when Gov. Gavin Newsom鈥檚 administration pulled its support. Regulators, saying they felt 鈥渂lindsided,鈥 approved the regulation anyway. It鈥檚 unclear what happens next.

A medida que m谩s estados desautorizan el diagn贸stico de 鈥渄elirio excitado鈥, grupos policiales retroceden

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La nueva ola de propuestas estatales, impulsada por familias que perdieron familiares despu茅s de enfrentamientos con la polic铆a, marca un paso importante para desterrar un t茅rmino que los cr铆ticos dicen que incita a la polic铆a a usar fuerza letal en exceso.

How National Political Ambition Could Fuel, or Fail, Initiatives to Protect Abortion Rights in States

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As money flows to abortion rights initiatives in states, some donors focus on where anger over the “Dobbs” ruling could propel voter turnout and spur Democratic victories up and down the ballot, including in key Senate races and the White House.

As More States Target Disavowed 鈥楨xcited Delirium鈥 Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back

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After California passed the first law in the nation to limit the disavowed term 鈥渆xcited delirium,鈥 bills in other states are being introduced to help end use of the diagnosis. But momentum is being met with resistance from law enforcement and first responder groups, who cite free speech.

A New Orleans Neighborhood Confronts the Racist Legacy of a Toxic Stretch of Highway

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New federal funds aim to address an array of problems created by highway construction in minority neighborhoods. These are economic, social, and, perhaps above all, public health problems. In New Orleans鈥 Treme neighborhood, competing plans for how to deal with harm done by the Claiborne Expressway reveal the challenge of how to mitigate them meaningfully.

Exclusive: Social Security Chief Vows to Fix 鈥楥ruel-Hearted鈥 Overpayment Clawbacks

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New Social Security Commissioner Martin O鈥橫alley is promising to change how the agency reclaims billions of dollars it wrongly pays to beneficiaries, saying the existing process is 鈥渃ruel-hearted and mindless.鈥

Secret Contract Aims to Upend Landmark California Prison Litigation

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California has commissioned an exhaustive study of whether its prisons provide a constitutional level of mental health care, which it could use to try to end one of the lawsuits that have federal courts overseeing the state鈥檚 prisons. But corrections officials won鈥檛 disclose even basic details of the consultants鈥 contract, including its cost to taxpayers.

Tal vez tu cr茅dito ya no se destruya por una cuenta m茅dica impaga

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Rob Bonta, fiscal general de California, anunci贸 que est谩 apoyando una legislaci贸n para impedir que la deuda m茅dica aparezca en los informes de cr茅dito del consumidor.

California Attorney General Boosts Bill Banning Medical Debt From Credit Reports

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta has thrown his weight behind state Sen. Monique Lim贸n鈥檚 legislation to bar unpaid medical bills from showing up on consumer credit reports. If passed, California would join just a few other states with such protections.

Biden Said State of the Union Is Strong and Made Clear His Campaign Is Off and Running

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President Joe Biden used his roughly 68-minute address to Congress to counter lackluster public approval ratings and draw clear contrasts between his administration鈥檚 policies and those of Donald Trump and some congressional Republicans. Abortion and health care were in the spotlight.

What the Health? From 麻豆女优 Health News: The State of the Union Is … Busy

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At last, Congress is getting half of its annual spending bills across the finish line, albeit five months after the start of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden delivers his annual State of the Union address, an over-the-counter birth control pill is (finally) available, and controversy erupts over new public health guidelines for covid-19 isolation. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call join 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss these issues and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews Neera Tanden, the White House domestic policy adviser, about Biden鈥檚 health agenda. Plus, for 鈥渆xtra credit,鈥 the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week that they think you should read, too.

Why Even Public Health Experts Have Limited Insight Into Stopping Gun Violence in America

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After the 1996 Dickey Amendment halted federal spending on research into firearms risks, a small group of academics pressed on, with little money or political support, to document the nation鈥檚 growing gun violence problem and start to understand what can be done to curb the public health crisis.

Why Hospitals in Many States With Legal Abortion May Refuse To Perform Them

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Many states that tout themselves as protectors of reproductive health care, including California, Michigan and Pennsylvania, have little-noticed laws on the books protecting hospitals that refuse to provide it. The laws shield at least some hospitals from liability for not providing care they object to on religious grounds, leaving little recourse for patients. The providers 鈥 many of them […]

Biden鈥檚 Got a Taker for One of His Gun Safety Proposals: California

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California could give President Biden a political win this year on gun violence. State senators passed sweeping legislation in January that would toughen gun storage requirements, embracing a White House priority that has languished in Congress. Many states, including California, have laws in place requiring gun owners to securely store their firearms when children are […]

America Worries About Health Costs 鈥 And Voters Want to Hear From Biden and Republicans

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The presidential election is likely to turn on the simple question of whether Americans want Donald Trump back in the White House. But health care tops the list of household financial worries for adults from both parties.

C贸mo la muerte de un amigo hizo que adolescentes de Colorado se volvieran activistas contra las sobredosis

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Los amigos de un joven muerto por envenenamiento por fentanilo impulsan una ley estatal para que estudiantes de secundaria puedan llevar Narcan en sus mochilas sin riesgo de ser castigados.

Avanzan en varios estados proyectos de ley extremos sobre el uso de ba帽os por g茅nero

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Al menos uno de los proyectos de ley es tan extremo como para proponer que se considere delito que una persona transg茅nero entre en una instalaci贸n que no coincida con el sexo indicado en su acta de nacimiento.