An ambitious California Democrat wants the world’s fifth-largest economy to create its own National Institutes of Health and vaccine program, saying the state can’t rely on the administration to support research and science.

Braidwood oral arguments are set for April 21. A policy expert says many states will maintain the current standards, even if the federal rules go away

Congress could consider updating the provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that preempts states’ efforts to regulate employee benefits. Analysts at the Congressional Research Service, an in-house research center that helps members of Congress and their aides understand the matters they’re working on, mention that possibility in a new report on recent U.S. Supreme Court ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will cut 10,000 full-time jobs and shut down several health agencies in an effort to restructure the department. The department will downsize from 82,000 to 62,000, because 10,000 workers have already taken early retirement and voluntary separation offers from the Trump administration. Although the massive layoffs have been part ...

Nonprofit hospitals’ 2024 financial performances are beating the prior year’s tough numbers, though even the stronger organizations remain “well below pre-pandemic levels,” Fitch Ratings said. In a Thursday brief describing the financial profiles of its rated nonprofit hospitals, the agency attributed the year-to-year improvements to stronger revenues and volumes as well as slightly mitigated, but ...

State, county and city governments are eager to hire former federal agency staffers targeted in DOGE cuts. But matching worker skills to local needs is a challenge.