Pa. can’t fine addiction treatment facilities that break rules, but some lawmakers want to change that
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Rep. Mark Gillen (R., Berks) wants to give the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs the power to fine licensed addiction treatment facilities for violating state rules.
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By Ed Mahon of Spotlight PA
HARRISBURG On his drive to and from the state Capitol, state Rep. Mark Gillen often sees a state trooper’s vehicle.
“They usually don’t yell out the window to slow down,” said Gillen, a Berks County Republican. “If you’re going too fast, you’re going to get stopped, and you’re going to get fined, and it changes behavior.”
Editorial: Unforgivable: Texas slams door on uninsured
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The beginning of the 87th Texas legislative session in January offered the slim possibility for Medicaid expansion.
It was always the smallest of chances. Republican opposition to expansion has long been tethered to an ideological tenet rather than moral or economic calculations. But Texas’ dubious distinction of leading the nation in uninsured people, compounded by a pandemic, opened the possibility of action. Then came the Biden administration’s decision to rescind the extension of a federal funding agreement known as the 1115 waiver. Perhaps this would move some Republican legislators toward supporting a measure that would reduce those uninsured numbers.
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Black and Brown Illinoisans in long-term care facilities died of COVID-19 at comparatively higher rates compared to white Illinoisans in the first few months of the pandemic.
That comes from a new study released last week by the state’s Department of Healthcare and Family Services. HFS told a panel of lawmakers about the disproportionate number of deaths for minority nursing home residents a day after Governor J-B Pritzker signed an expansive law last week meant to address racial inequities in healthcare.
In a presentation before a joint House committee hearing, HFS criticized the use of long-term care facilities that overcrowd bedrooms with three or more residents given the propensity for higher transmission.
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MONTPELIER â The Vermont Legislatureâs efforts to make high quality child care more accessible and affordable cleared its last significant hurdle Friday, as the Senate voted unanimously to approve a bill expanding eligibility and financial assistance for families.
The bill, H. 171, funds the third year of a five-year plan to expand the state Child Care Assistance Funding Program (CCFAP), expanding eligibility and assuring that families pay per household rather than per child. It provides scholarships and loan forgiveness for early childhood educators and sets up studies into Vermontâs early education needs, and how the state can afford to meet them.
MONTPELIER The Vermont Legislature’s efforts to make high quality child care more accessible and affordable cleared its last significant hurdle Friday, as the Senate voted unanimously to approve a