Supreme Court Ruling Should Help ACA Stick: Health Care Lawyer

A health care lawyer says the new U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act is about more than procedural rules. Stephen Lucke, a partner at law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and the co-chair of the firm’s health litigation group, contends in a commentary on the ruling that the court majority clearly ...

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California Law Banning Copay Coupons Didn’t Boost Generic Drug Use, Study Finds

A 2017 California law that banned drugmaker copay coupons failed to increase the use of generic drugs, according to a study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The study, published June 15 in JAMA, found that the law did not meet its goal to boost use of generic drugs instead of patients’ relying on copay coupons ...

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Medicaid Enrollment Hits Record 80 Million

The pandemic-caused recession and a federal requirement that states keep Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled until the national emergency ends swelled the pool of people in the program by more than 9 million over the past year, according to a report released Thursday. The latest figures show Medicaid enrollment grew from 71.3 million in February 2020, when ...

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Delta Coronavirus Strain Is Growing Fast In California, With Risk For Unvaccinated People

The highly infectious delta coronavirus variant is rising fast in California, with cases more than doubling in the past month and tripling in one Bay Area county, according to genomic sequencing results reported by state and local public health departments. The first California cases of delta, a variant that emerged in India, were reported in ...

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New COVID-19 Workplace Rules Align with CDC, State Health Dept. Guidelines

This week, the Standards Board of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) adopted revisions to the COVID-19 emergency workplace rules. The changes approved at the Standards Board’s June 17 meeting make Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) more consistent with face mask guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and California ...

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CDC Director: Delta Variant To ‘Probably’ Become Dominant Strain In U.S.

Research from Scotland released this week showed the variant made hospitalization more than twice as likely than for patients with the Alpha variant.

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