Health coverage for Chicago area immigrants jeopardized in Gov. Pritzker’s budget proposal
Nearly 33,000 Illinoisans without legal status — including 22,000 in Cook County — could be left without health care if ...
Fired in the name of efficiency, now the VA’s paying them not to work
These VA workers were helping veterans. One had even found $10 million in cost savings. But they were fired under a false pretense in the name of efficiency.
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Zambia Roundup: First mpox death, Huawei partnership, environmental crisis
Tanzania-Zambia electricity deal Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) is in preliminary talks with a private Zambian ...
5 years later, Portland lags other cities as it nurses pandemic-era wounds
Life sputtered to a standstill for Carrie Welch five years ago this week. A novel coronavirus had descended upon Oregon, and ...
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Doug Racine: It’s the education fund that’s broken, not the education system
Every governor and every legislature since the passage of Acts 60/68 has used the property tax as a piggy bank to balance the budget “without raising taxes,” meaning broad-based taxes.
Overtime for state employees costs hundreds of millions. Here’s where and why
The latest statistics from the Connecticut comptroller’s office show the state spent more than $300 million for overtime ...
Wealth and health: NC treasurer talks new pension strategy, weight-loss drug coverage and more
North Carolina State Treasurer Brad Briner spoke with WRAL News about plans to tackle the state health plan deficit, bringing ...
Businesses need lower health care costs, not more regulations: Cindy Holzheimer
Addressing skyrocketing health care costs won’t be solved by passing more regulations and mandating fees paid for on the ...
Researchers search for more precise ways to measure pain
Measuring pain, one of the most fundamental tasks in medicine, remains one of the least accurate.
A cure for her daughter's epilepsy was getting close. Then Trump froze health spending.
Experts warn federal spending cuts will make the country sicker and poorer as healthcare costs rise without new treatments.
Doctors, patients finding relief by switching to direct primary care physicians
Though providers and patients in direct primary care prefer the model, it does not replace all medical services.
Elon Musk’s DOGE puts government agencies in Spokane Valley, Lapwai, Pomeroy on notice for building lease terminations
Several federal agencies in Washington and Idaho are on notice that their office leases in local buildings will be terminated ...