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CA to Cap Health Care Providers’ Annual Price Increases at 3% California’s Health Care Affordability Board voted to limit annual price increases from doctors, hospitals and health insurers...
VT Retailers Fight Data Privacy Bill Orvis and other online retailers based in Vermont are mounting an effort to scale back comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation ( HB 121 ) that has been passed...
Even as states are falling behind on their greenhouse gas emissions goals , that topic remains a top priority in legislatures across the country. Numerous bills have been introduced this year that would...
States Loosening Occupational Licensing Laws In an effort to boost their workforces, states are advancing legislation to loosen their occupational licensing laws. For example, the Louisiana House passed...
ME House Passes Restrictive Data Privacy Bill Maine’s House narrowly approved a bill ( LD 1977 ) that would impose restrictions on the digital information that companies can collect. Businesses...
On the last day of this year’s regular session, California lawmakers passed a bill (SB 525) that would phase in a nation-leading $25 minimum wage for workers at hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical facilities. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has until Oct. 14 to act on the measure. (KFF HEALTH NEWS, STATE NET)
At a virtual townhall last week Maryland Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk (D), chair of her chamber’s Health and Government Operations Committee; U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); and the advocacy groups Healthcare for All! and AARP announced their support for legislation next year to establish upper payment limits on some prescription drugs covered by private insurance plans. The planned measure would expand the authority of the state’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board, which is now working on establishing payment limits for drugs covered by public insurance plans. (WYPR)
Benefit consultants from Mercer, Aon and Willis Towers Watson are forecasting U.S. employer healthcare costs to jump 8.5% next year—the largest increase in a decade—due to medical inflation, high demand for expensive weight-loss drugs and expanded access to costly gene therapies. But with the tight labor market, most employers aren’t planning to shift that cost increase onto workers. Beth Umland, Mercer’s director of health & benefits research, said employers “don’t want to add more financial stress on employees who are also coping with inflation, especially in this time where they’re really relying on their health benefits as a way to keep employees working for them.” (REUTERS)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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