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Health Care — Spending bill tackles Medicaid, pandemic response

Health Care — Spending bill tackles Medicaid, pandemic response

🐕 It took the right little girl to want the shelter dog with Cushing’s disease. We’re rooting for Princess Fiona’s adoption to work out. Today in health, we take a look at which health provisions made it into the spending bill. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest moves on policy and…

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Health Care — Supreme Court temporarily pauses end of Title 42

Health Care — Supreme Court temporarily pauses end of Title 42

Like most everyone else in Washington, D.C., we are eagerly awaiting text of the omnibus funding bill. It could come tonight, but we may be waiting for a while. Today in health, the fight over ending the Title 42 migrant policy hit the Supreme Court. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest…

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Health Care — Early results for melanoma relapse vax promising

Health Care — Early results for melanoma relapse vax promising

RIP to Mike Leach, a pioneering college football coach who died Monday evening following complications from a heart condition. Today in health, lawmakers told Pfizer’s CEO to “back off” from raising the price of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. But first, we highlight promising early results on preventing return cases of melanoma that were announced by Moderna and Merck. Welcome to…

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More than 5,000 sign up for Colorado’s health insurance pilot for residents who are undocumented – Greeley Tribune

More than 5,000 sign up for Colorado’s health insurance pilot for residents who are undocumented – Greeley Tribune

About 5,700 people have taken advantage of Colorado’s OmniSalud program to expand insurance to those who are in the country without legal documentation, and almost all of them have qualified for subsidies to significantly lower their costs. People who are undocumented have been able to buy insurance through the state-run marketplace, though they aren’t eligible…

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Oregon Gov-elect Kotek hears about housing, health, education needs on first tour stop – Oregon Capital Chronicle

Oregon Gov-elect Kotek hears about housing, health, education needs on first tour stop – Oregon Capital Chronicle

McMINNVILLE– Gov.-elect Tina Kotek launched a 36-county listening tour in Yamhill County on Wednesday, hearing from leaders at a community clinic, preschool and local government office that they need money, trained workers and more homes.  Kotek’s visit to McMinnville was the first of a planned statewide tour over the next year, focused on improving the…

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Children’s Dental Health Clinic meets gap in dental care for underserved youth • Long Beach Post News

Children’s Dental Health Clinic meets gap in dental care for underserved youth • Long Beach Post News

Serving approximately 6,500 patients a year from infants up to 21-year-olds, since the organization’s inception, it has focused on addressing the “very real social determinants of health and health inequities,” said director of advancement Karen Byrnes. At the Children’s Dental Health Clinic, about 90% of its patients are on Medi-Cal, Byrnes said, though the clinic…

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Health Care — White House to unwind monkeypox emergency

Health Care — White House to unwind monkeypox emergency

Netizens are perhaps rightfully scratching their heads over a Pepsi ad featuring Lindsay Lohan in which the actress enjoys a glass of the soda with just a splash of milk. Today in health, the Biden administration says it doesn’t anticipate renewing the public health emergency that was declared for the monkeypox outbreak earlier this year once it…

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Netflix for Drugs? – The Health Care Blog

Netflix for Drugs? – The Health Care Blog

By KIM BELLARD A relative — obviously overestimating my healthcare expertise — asked my thoughts on The New York Times article Can a Federally Funded ‘Netflix Model’ Fix the Broken Market for Antibiotics? I had previously skimmed the article and was vaguely aware of the Pasteur Act that it discusses, but, honestly, my immediate reaction to the article was, gosh, that…

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