by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a trio of bills meant to address gun violence Tuesday, onebanning the sale of certain semi-automatic rifles, one imposing a 10-day waiting period on firearms purchases, and one clearing the way for lawsuits against gun makers or...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Newly announced limits on visas for foreign nurses threaten to further a staffing strain on hospitals, nursing homes, and other major health employers. The State Department, in its May Visa Bulletin, announced that nearly all the available green card slots that nurses...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Yesterday, senate health committee leaders Bernie Sanders and Bill Cassidy announced an agreement on a bipartisan package to increase access to generic drugs and increase transparency required of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).The package includes four bills that...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Biden administration have two vastly different estimates of the number of people who would become uninsured under the House Republicans’ debt bill, which would impose Medicaid work requirements. According to the CBO,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
A group of crisis experts and federal advisers conclude in a report out today that a lack of disaster preparedness and coordination led to an unraveling of the nation’s pandemic response and that the crisis exposed a “collective national incompetence in...
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