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‘Unauthorized Alien’ Limits Among Trio of Auto Insurance Proposals Under Consideration in LA House Three auto insurance bills cleared the Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure...
Social Media Bill Dodges Veto Override in CO Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ (D) veto of a social media bill ( SB 86 ) survived an override attempt. The state’s Democrat-controlled Senate voted...
WA Enacts Law Keeping Medical Debt Off Credit Reports Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed a bill ( SB 5480 ) prohibiting collection agencies from reporting unpaid medical debt to credit agencies...
In 2022, there were about 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in the United States. That’s the highest rate of maternal deaths among high-income nations worldwide. That sobering statistic...
DOGE-Like Effort in FL Could Impact Insurance Industry The wave of housecleaning that’s swept through the federal government courtesy of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency appears...
Florida’s Senate passed legislation (SB 7016 and SB 7018) that would allocate $800 million for bolstering the state’s health care workforce, including by providing tuition assistance for medical and dental students, and loans for building clinics. The measures were approved unanimously after being amended to cut tuition and educational aid by $70 million and a loan fund for innovative health care programs by $25 million. (ORLANDO SENTINEL)
Lawmakers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi—three of the ten states that haven’t expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act—are now considering doing so, in an effort to address the wave of rural hospital closures and the high rates of uninsured. Arkansas, which used federal expansion money to buy private insurance for uninsured residents, could serve as a model. (PLURIBUS NEWS)
Indiana’s Senate Health and Provider Services Committee approved a bill (SB 139) that would establish a therapeutic psilocybin research fund. The fund would be used to provide financial assistance to state research institutions studying the use of psilocybin to treat mental health and neurological conditions. (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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