Without Enough Boots on the Ground, California’s Vaccination Efforts Falter

Gov. Gavin Newsom routinely boasts that California has “one of the highest vaccination rates in the United States of America.”

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ARPA & COBRA Obligations: We Have Only Just Begun

Benefits brokers who consult with plan administrators of employer-sponsored group health plans, will need to ready clients for the multiple phases that will follow receipt of qualified beneficiaries’ American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) subsidy elections, which will start rolling in during the next month.

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New Alzheimer’s Drug May Create A Policy Dilemma For Democrats

Advocates of lowering prescription drug prices are beginning to use an expensive new Alzheimer's drug to make the case for reform, but actually addressing the therapy's price raises complicated policy challenges.

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Retirement, Once On Track, Now Derailed For Many

Many Americans who thought their retirement planning was on track before the pandemic now find their plans detoured or even derailed. Fidelity’s State of Retirement Planning study examined the extent of planning Americans have undertaken to meet their retirement goals, how they feel about those efforts and the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on their preparation. The study also looks at ...

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How Companies Can Drum Up Enthusiasm For A Return To The Office And Vaccines

As companies design plans to bring workers back into the office, chief human resources officers are contending with a plethora of issues. Do they mandate vaccines or simply urge employees to get them? How should hybrid schedules be decided and does innovation suffer when people continue to work from home? These questions and more were ...

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Highly Contagious Delta Coronavirus Variant Spreading Fast In California

The Delta coronavirus variant is now the third-most common in California, new data show, underscoring the danger of the highly contagious strain to people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The variant makes up 14.5% of California coronavirus cases analyzed so far in June, up from 4.7% in May, when it was the fourth-most ...

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