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The Biden-Harris administration Friday that it is taking a series of steps to lower healthcare costs for consumers, including cracking down on "junk" insurance. Junk insurance refers to short-term health plans that are often lacking in coverage like mental health and prescription drugs, and they don't have consumer protections like coverage of pre-existing conditions.

Earlier this month, became the first entity to the White House's Medicare drug pricing negotiation program.Since then, three more lawsuits have been filed in opposition to the program.While legal experts legally challenge agree that the plaintiffs' arguments probably won't hold up during a court battle, these lawsuits still could delay when the government's ability to negotiate price goes into effect.

On Friday, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed new legislation that will protect the state's doctors, medical providers and facilitators who prescribe abortion care telehealth services to patients outside of New York from litigation in states where abortion services are banned or restricted."This legislation will help more women access medication abortion and reproductive care by ensuring our health care providers can deliver telehealth services to out-of-state patients without fear of legal or professional repercussions," Hochul said in a news release.

The healthcare industry faced several headwinds in the last year, such as higher interest rates, more antitrust regulatory review concerns, higher valuations and recession worries.But despite these headwinds, health services deals "remained resilient" for the 12 months ending May 15, according to a PwC published Wednesday.

With U.S. life expectancy at its lowest point since 1996 and behind other comparable countries, employers have a major role to play in creating a change, a new report explains.The report from Deloitte, published Tuesday, found that while the average lifespan for Americans is 77.9 years, Americans are living only 65.9 years in good health.

Currently, have enacted full bans on abortion, while another six states have partial bans following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.When that happened, many insurers stepped up to work with employers and explain their benefits, as well as help with travel assistance for abortion services, said Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.

The needless, tragic murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teen, by a white Chicago police officer in 2014 put the city's Police Department, and the need to reform it, in the national spotlight.McDonald's death was a driving force behind the federally mandated consent decree that requires the Chicago Police Department to overhaul its training, supervision and accountability.

Just like DDT, PCBs and asbestos, a group of substances obliquely known as PFAS are incredibly useful, potentially deadly and devilishly difficult to clean up.Since the 1950s, PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated substances) have been used in products ranging from pacemakers and fireproof foam to cosmetics and food containers.

Three years after defund the police became a rallying cry that emerged in the fury over the police killing of George Floyd, efforts to do away with conventional policing have largely fizzled in Minneapolis and beyond.The movement faltered in Minneapolis after activists failed to build broad support for a goal that lacked a clear definition and an alternative that residents could agree on.

As a gray cloud and a pungent smell moved through the Twin Cities on Wednesday, normally bustling bike lanes and running trails were largely deserted.Several commuters wore high-quality masks as they made their way home.The air quality reached unhealthy levels in Minneapolis, St. Paul and much of Minnesota on Wednesday, as the Upper Midwest became the latest pocket of the country to have its air fouled by smoke drifting south from wildfires that have been burning across Canada for weeks.

The last time New Yorkers went to the polls, they had to contemplate a governor's race and a slew of congressional races in the critical 2022 midterm elections.But there was one variable that they did not have to deal with: ranked-choice voting, which had been used the previous year in the mayoral election.

Owning a home in the Bay Area now costs more than twice as much as renting one, the largest disparity of any major population center in the country, as homeownership stretches even further out of reach for many local residents.San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland tallied the biggest cost differences between renting and owning among U.S. cities, according to a new report by real estate listing site Redfin.

For decades, affordable housing in New York City has followed a seemingly simple rule: To make new development more palatable, half of new affordable apartments must first be offered to people already living in the area.The policy, put in place in 1988 by Mayor Ed Koch, was designed to benefit low-income communities.

NFL ownership is currently holding its spring meeting in Minneapolis, and one of the first items on the agenda was voting on potentially modifying the league's rules and bylaws.Among the proposals on the table was the introduction of a third emergency quarterback.The idea behind it is quite simple: give teams more flexibility at the most important position in the sport.

Top Justice Department officials on Friday are expected to announce the findings of a two-year long investigation of the policing practices of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter said.The pattern or practice review followed the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd's murder.

After the global pandemic forced many young adults to move back in with their parents, a new study suggests that they're ready to test the housing market again.LendingTree, an online loan marketplace, analyzed about 3.4 million mortgage purchase requests on its platform during 2022 and found that Gen Z-ers made up nearly 15 percent of potential home buyers across the nation's 50 largest metro areas.

Toward the end of Dead & Company's last show in Dallas on what's billed as its final tour, the memories came flooding back.My adventures with the Grateful Dead and the various incarnations of the band that followed span four decades-plus, from first hearing "American Beauty" in the late 1970s to shows in seven U.S. states, Paris and London.

The San Francisco Bay Area had three finalists in the running for the country's top culinary awards but came up empty when the James Beard Foundation medallions were bestowed on chefs, restaurateurs and others Monday evening in Chicago.In the national categories, modern French pastry chef Margarita Manzke, of Republique in Los Angeles, won for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker over a field of finalists that included Vince Bugtong of Abaca in San Francisco (formerly of Oakland's dessert and cocktail bar, Viridian).

A week after a thick plume of smoke choked the air in New York City, delaying flights, closing schools and sending people to hospitals with respiratory issues, another round of eastward winds is pushing Canadian wildfire smoke toward the East Coast.Smoke from the hundreds of wildfires burning across Canada is expected to return to the New York area starting late Thursday, according to the National Weather Service office in Upton, N.Y.

Maryanna Harstad was stunned and then elated when she heard that the Supreme Court had upheld a law on Thursday aimed at keeping Native American adoptees with their tribes and traditions.Adopted herself by a white family nearly two decades before the law was passed in 1978, she was worried about the effect that overturning it could have had on Native children.

In a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), federal researchers acknowledge in detail that police-perpetrated killings are a major cause of violent death in the United States, and Black and Indigenous men are disproportionally killed by police compared to all other groups tracked in the data.

Ingrid Haebler, a pianist who drew particular acclaim for her performances and recordings of the works of Mozart, impressing critics while still in her 20s with elegant interpretations that set her apart from other musicians of her day, died on May 14.She was believed to be 96.Decca Classics, which last year released Ingrid Haebler: The Philips Legacy, a boxed set of dozens of recordings she made for the Philips label, posted news of her death on Facebook.

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on May 16.Alex Brandon/AP The U.S. Supreme Court Court on Thursday significantly curtailed the power of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the nation's wetlands and waterways.It was the court's second decision in a year limiting the ability of the agency to enact anti-pollution regulations and combat climate change.

A suspect was arrested on suspicion of arson after a fire last week at a mosque in St. Paul, Minn., at least the fifth such act of vandalism in the state so far this year that has left members of the Muslim community living in fear, a state senator said.Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said at a news conference that the mosque, the Oromo American Tawhid Islamic Center, was left completely burned after being set on fire on Wednesday.

Top Biden campaign officials are popping the hood on President Joe Biden's emerging reelection machine and giving top supporters a peek inside as their first quarterly fundraising deadline rapidly approaches.Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, her deputy Quentin Fulks and Democratic National Committee executive director Sam Cornale are embarking Thursday on a cross-country tour to meet with top donors, local Democratic officials and other supporters in an effort to stir up enthusiasm and build fundraising momentum.

This piece originally appeared in City Observatory.On Sunday June 11, a tanker truck caught fire on I-95 and the intense heat caused the collapse of a section of the highway, which is one of the nation's principal north-south connections and carries 160,000 vehicles per day.What would commuters and travelers do without this vital chunk of roadway?

Getty Images Conditions for first-time home buyers looked different in the first quarter of 2023 compared with one year before, but they hadn't necessarily improved.Across the country, while active listings in the first quarter fell from the previous quarter, they remained significantly higher than a year ago, and asking prices held relatively steady.

Healthcare dealmakers must prepare for a new law and a recently introduced bill in the California Senate.Both aim to increase oversight in the healthcare M&A space, which is a legislative trend other states are beginning to participate in too.The first piece of California legislation that the healthcare industry should be aware of is , which was signed into law a year ago.

This year's recipient of the Julia Child Award, recognizing those who have had an impact on the American culinary scene, is Sean Sherman, a chef, author and the co-founder of the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) and its Indigenous Food Lab.The award has been given by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts since 2015, and comes with a $50,000 prize.

When regulators speak, we listen.Naturally risk-averse industries like the life sciences need health authority acceptance before trying new approaches and especially before committing to wholesale operational change, even if the outcome has great potential.Consider decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) - a new model for conducting research.

John Beasley, who left his job as a railroad clerk in his mid-40s to pursue acting full time, bringing an understated power to films like the inspirational 1993 football movie Rudy and television series like the WB drama Everwood and the TV Land comedy The Soul Man, died on May 30 in Omaha.He was 79.

Women's health is once again the center of a political ping-pong match with evidence-based science on one side and anti-choice advocates on the other.The current match involves a Texas lawsuit aimed at overruling the FDA's 2000 approval of one of the two drugs prescribed for medication abortion, mifepristone.

A federal recently filed by two people alleges that the state of Tennessee and its insurance committee are discriminatory against transgender people through the state's employee benefits program.The plaintiffs are Gerda Zinner, a 30-year-old transgender woman and an academic advisor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Story VanNess, a 38-year-old transgender woman and a former special education teacher at Knox County Board of Education (VanNess has since left her job).

There are plenty of professions that involve being watched.Acting is an obvious one.Being a flight attendant is another - think of the emotional labor required to smile and appear chipper while some guy inevitably takes off his shoes on the plane.Or consider the construction worker, jackhammering away while children beg their parents to stay and look at the big machines.

Respiratory syncytial virus had stymied vaccine research efforts for decades.Now there are two vaccines approved for the pathogen.The FDA on Wednesday approved Pfizer's RSV vaccine, which carries the brand name Abrysvo.The regulatory decision follows the approval of GSK's RSV shot, Arexvy, in early May.

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Commanders President Jason Wright, left, walks on the field in Arlington, Tex., with Tanya and Daniel Snyder before a game against the Cowboys in October.(John McDonnell/The Washington Post)Comment Gift Article EAGAN, Minn. - Washington Commanders owners Daniel and Tanya Snyder were not in attendance as the NFL began a two-day quarterly meeting Monday in the Minneapolis area, with other franchise owners expected to be updated on the Snyders' $6.05 billion deal to sell the Commanders to Josh Harris.

The NFL's ownership met in Minneapolis last week to talk discuss several issues, including a handful of rule change proposals and possible procedural modifications.Three of those did get the two-thirds majority needed to be implemented, but there was no universal approval among clubs and fans alike.

The 60th version of the NFL's title game will be played in the San Francisco Bay Area.As the league announced on Monday, Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara - home of the San Francisco 49ers - will host Super Bowl LX in February 2026.The decision to bring the game back to California was voted on during the NFL ownership meetings in Minneapolis.

About 65% of Americans believe that employer-sponsored insurance provides them with "financial peace of mind," a new shows.The AHIP report, published Wednesday, was conducted by Locust Street Group from April 17 to April 25 as part of AHIP's Coverage@Work campaign, which aims to gather insights on Americans' thoughts on employer-sponsored coverage.

Pfizer's Paxlovid now has full FDA approval for treating mild-to-moderate Covid-19, a regulatory decision that makes the pill the first oral antiviral for the novel coronavirus.The approval announced Thursday covers the treatment of adults who are at high risk of progressing to severe Covid-19 that could lead to hospitalization or death.

Private insurers are expected to pay about $1.1 billion in medical loss ratio rebates in 2023, a new found.The report, published Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), relied on preliminary data reported by insurers to state regulators.Some insurers haven't reported their rebate estimates for this year yet, but final data will be released later in the year.

In April, Mark Lee Dickson arrived in West Wendover, Nevada, a 4,500-person city that hugs the Utah-Nevada border to pitch an ordinance banning abortion.Dickson is the director of the anti-abortion group Right to Life of East Texas and founder of another organization that has spent the past few years traveling the United States trying to persuade local governments to pass abortion bans.

The San Francisco Giants are currently riding a lovely hot streak.After beating the Minnesota Twins by a score of 4-1 on Monday night, the Giants have won six of their last seven games, all against good teams.A win today would give them their third consecutive series victory, and also bring their winning percentage to .500 for the first time since they were 3-3.

Elster.Hairston.Grisham.These are just a few of the names associated with the San Francisco Giants who made their names for what they did to them.And then there's Carlos Correa, a player who - as of this writing - is linked to the Giants most strongly because of what "they did to him."You might remember the brief encounter the team and player had this offseason.

A group of labor unions filed an on Thursday.The plaintiffs alleged that the health system has prevented its workers from being able to advocate for themselves and their patients through "a draconian system of mobility restrictions and widespread labor law violations that lock in sub-competitive pay and working conditions."

Daniel Tardiff will be speaking on the panel "Legal Tales From the Startup Side" at the MedCity INVEST conference at 5:15 p.m. on May 23 at the Ritz-Carlton in Chicago.The panel is complimentary, but registration is required.A networking reception will follow the event.Click here to register for the panel and to learn more.