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CA’s Wildfire-Driven Insurance Crisis Spreads to Lower-Risk Homes Insurers have stopped covering homes in some California neighborhoods at lower risk of wildfire damage, forcing thousands of homeowners...
WA Enacts Ban on Microchipping Workers Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed a bill ( HB 2303 ) prohibiting companies from requiring their workers to get microchip implants. The new law allows workers...
NJ Gov Wants Big Employers to Help Cover Cost of Medicaid New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) unveiled a state budget plan that proposes generating $145 million in funding for Medicaid by requiring large...
When Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) spoke about the need for affordable healthcare and housing last month , she joined a chorus of governors of both major parties who have made affordability a focus...
MI to Weigh Ban on Stock Buybacks for Companies Receiving Tax Breaks Michigan Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) introduced a bill ( SB 783 ) that would prohibit publicly traded companies receiving economic incentives...
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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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