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MA Lawmakers to Weigh Four-Day Work Week The Massachusetts House Labor and Workforce Development Committee scheduled a hearing last week on legislation ( HB 3849 ) that would provide tax credits to businesses...
Bills to Overhaul Long-Term Care and Control Prescription Drug Costs on Move in MA The Massachusetts House unanimously passed a bill ( HB 4178 ) that would overhaul the long-term care industry, while...
OpenAI Ousts CEO Sam Altman The board of directors of OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, announced on the company’s blog last week that its CEO Sam Altman would be stepping down. The blog post said...
For more than half a year, labor strife has swept the country. First, Hollywood writers went on strike in May. Then actors joined them in walking off the set a couple months later, in July. Detroit...
IL Lawmakers Approve Bill Lifting Moratorium on Nuclear Power Plants: The Illinois General Assembly passed legislation ( HB 2437 ) that, as amended, will lift a nearly four-decades-old moratorium on new...
The Michigan Legislature passed a bill (SB 410) that would repeal a law passed in 1995 preventing lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies. Bloomberg Law reported that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) was “likely to sign” the measure. (MICHIGAN ADVANCE, BLOOMBERG LAW, STATE NET)
Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo (R) sent a memo to her fellow senators last week saying her focus for the 2024 session would be “growing Florida’s health care workforce, increasing access, and incentivizing innovation, so Floridians can have more options and opportunities to live healthy.” The memo cited studies projecting the state would have nearly 18,000 fewer physicians and 37,400 fewer registered nurses than needed by 2035. It also indicated the chamber’s Health Policy Committee would be holding a workshop on Nov. 14 “to begin the process of fine tuning ideas, putting pen to paper, and of course, hearing more input from stakeholders.” (FLORIDA POLITICS, FLORIDA SENATE)
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee passed a package of healthcare reforms that would restrict some pharmacy benefit manager practices and prevent Medicare patients from paying more for medications than insurers do. The legislation builds on PBM regulations approved by the panel in July. (STAT, U.S. SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK