Tag: Healthcare
ABC TV-7 Chicago, IL: Consumer Watchdog On How Shortfalls Of CARES Act May Not Cover COVID-19 Tests
‘No One Has Ever Seen This’: Coronavirus Rattles California Ballot Campaigns
By Jeremy B. White, POLITICO March 18, 2020 https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/18/no-one-has-ever-seen-this-coronavirus-rattles-california-ballot-campaigns-1267760 SAN FRANCISCO — As Californians raided hand sanitizer and wipes to battle the spread of the...
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Substance abuse treatment centers should serve patients, not profit
Last week SB 325, a bill by Senator Jerry Hill to require the state of California to license and oversee outpatient substance abuse treatment centers,...
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California Acts to Stem Opioid Overprescribing and Prevent Overdose Deaths
Sacramento, CA – Starting today, California doctors will have to check a patient’s prescription history before prescribing addictive opioids and other controlled substances. The legislation is...
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Insurance Goliath Sues Lawyers Representing HIV Patients For Aetna’s Own Privacy Breach
Los Angeles, CA — This morning, health insurance Goliath Aetna sued the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLP, a consumer law firm, who’ve sued...
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Trump’s Health Plan Order Could Bring Back Days of Junk Insurance
Santa Monica, CA — The White House’s executive order today seeking to allow for more “Association Health Plans” could turn the clock back to days...
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California Supreme Court Affirms Medical Board’s Use Of State Prescription Drug Database to Discipline Dangerous Doctors and Prevent Opioid Abuse
Santa Monica, CA – The California Supreme Court today issued a decision affirming the right of the Medical Board of California to use the state...
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Allow States to Adopt Single Payer Health Care, Not Just Weak “Co-Ops”
Washington D.C. -- Any national health reform compromise that allows states to adopt ineffective health care "co-ops" should also allow states to adopt highly effective single-payer systems, according to Consumer Watchdog. According to Politico.com, the…
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