Governor Whitmer vetoed a bill on the last day of the legislative session that would have given lawmakers some authority over unelected health departments.
“Abandoning the proposed rule abandons a potential restraint on Medicaid spending growth, at a time when federal debt and deficits have soared to unsustainable levels.”
Sixty-one percent of community drug stores polled in Florida said they would turn away Medicaid customers seeking prescription refills because of inadequate reimbursement.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) enacted a rule allowing more flexibility for state governments to create value-based drug purchasing agreements with pharmaceutical companies.
Government economic relief packages actively encourage business owners to fire employees, says Casey Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago and a former Council of Economic Advisers chief economist.
“Nobody ever envisioned such an epic abuse of power that we’ve had, hence the necessity of this legislation to rein in and prevent that abuse of power from happening again,"
An analysis by Columbia University epidemiologists finds more than 36,000 Americans died unnecessarily because government regulators reacted too slowly to the building coronavirus global pandemic in March and April 2020.
Now that the threat from the pandemic has diminished, lawmakers should use this opportunity to access what health care policies work and which ones stand in the way of patient care
With the federal tax deadline having been moved to July 15 under the CARES Act, taxpayers have more time to reduce their tax liability and save more money for retirement.
Those who have...
Before the document’s publication, FDA regulators had not approved remote viewing, requiring pathologists to be physically present while working at clinical laboratories and hospitals.
