by Jessica Casebolt | May 3, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Vermont on Tuesday become the first state in the nation to update its medically assisted suicide law to allow out-of-state terminally ill people to use the procedure to end their lives. The law, which for a decade has permitted doctors to prescribe life-ending...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 1, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order blocking the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that insurers cover preventive care. In the filing, the U.S. Justice Department said the order “has no legal justification...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 28, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Abortion bans failed to pass in the legislatures of two conservative states yesterday. A near-total abortion ban failed to pass in South Carolina’s Senate by 22 votes to 21, marking the third time such a measure hasn’t passed in a GOP-led chamber since...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 27, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging Tennessee’s new law that bansgender-affirming care for minors, which is due to take effect on July 1. The DOJ argues in its court filingthat the legislation violates the Fourteenth...
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 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
A new Washington law aims to make it easier for patients to access aid-in-dying services under the state’s Death with Dignity Act. A measure Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law earlier this month will cut down the wait time between when patients first ask for...
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