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Congress weighs stiffer fentanyl regulations ift.tt/1KR0e4H

Congress weighs stiffer fentanyl regulations

According to recent provisional CDC data, nearly 80,000 people died last year of an opioid overdose. Of those, more than 72,000 deaths were linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

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What a debt ceiling breach could mean for health care ift.tt/K1mZX7b

What a debt ceiling breach could mean for health care

Insurance companies that participate in the Affordable Care Act might have some reserves they can dip into to keep paying claims if government funding stops.

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Debt ceiling debates and STD rates ift.tt/wL1f4rz

Debt ceiling debates and STD rates

Senior Biden administration officials warn that debt ceiling negotiations around clawing back unspent Covid-19 money would have an unintended consequence: increasing sexually transmitted diseases.

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The abortion pill’s day in court ift.tt/DMSi7Rr

The abortion pill’s day in court

The panel is expected to rule in the coming months, but the U.S. Supreme Court will have the final say.

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Sanders’ provider plan ift.tt/Ttl4YAB

Sanders’ provider plan

Sanders told Daniel and our Burgess Everett about a package he’s proposing that would, over five years, provide $130 billion for community health centers and $60 billion to help expand the workforce.

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ACA preventive care coverage can stay — for now ift.tt/Xhp2WDf

ACA preventive care coverage can stay — for now

Many major insurers have pledged to maintain preventive care at no cost for now — regardless of action in the courts.

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Visa freeze imperils nursing workforce ift.tt/EdewM6L

Visa freeze imperils nursing workforce

The reduction in foreign visas will affect nursing homes, assisted living facilities and hospice care, which have heavily relied on a pipeline of international nurses since the pandemic.

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Business as usual for post-pandemic health care ift.tt/Pg5eRNk

Business as usual for post-pandemic health care

The “new normal” of post-pandemic U.S. health care is shaping up to be similar to the old normal.

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CMS Innovation Center under the microscope ift.tt/68S91D4
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A roadblock to health care for undocumented immigrants ift.tt/kQ0CdD8

A roadblock to health care for undocumented immigrants

Erin asked POLITICO’s Megan Messerly about her reporting on the issue and what the nearly dozen Democratic state lawmakers and immigration advocates she spoke with had to say.

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Arkansas revisits its checkered past ift.tt/hUKwL7n

Arkansas revisits its checkered past

New data from Arkansas shows Medicaid unwinding is going how state officials had hoped — and many consumer advocates had feared.

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A boom and bust of community health workers ift.tt/bBIkmzt

A boom and bust of community health workers

Many community health workers trained through the pandemic face layoffs, your host reports.

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A new abortion battle in the Sunshine State ift.tt/QHxWEYq

A new abortion battle in the Sunshine State

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive rights groups are launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to put abortion on the Florida ballot next year.

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R.I.P. PHE ift.tt/X6R034r

R.I.P. PHE

The PHE began during the Trump administration and came to affect nearly all parts of American health care, Ben writes, with the government appropriating $4.6 trillion to fight the virus.

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Fentanyl’s deadly, uneven toll ift.tt/E1Cwt6z

Fentanyl’s deadly, uneven toll

More Black Americans died from fentanyl overdoses than from any other drug in 2021.

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The FTC’s health data mission ift.tt/UkqExKb

The FTC’s health data mission

The FTC has made protecting online health data a priority of its enforcement agenda in the absence of new federal data privacy legislation.

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Inside the Hill’s health care reform momentum ift.tt/IPwTeRF

Inside the Hill’s health care reform momentum

Looking toward the 2024 elections, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is evidently hoping to seize the bipartisan moment to bring a package of drug pricing bills to the floor this month.

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CDC: America’s teens in distress ift.tt/Wenir8O

CDC: America’s teens in distress

The results of the CDC’s 2021 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey and dozens of local surveys create a stark picture of a fast-changing teenage population.

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New threats from old diseases? Blame climate change. ift.tt/J67gTZO

New threats from old diseases? Blame climate change.

Peter Sands, head of the Global Fund, one of the world’s largest funders of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria programs, told POLITICO’s Ashleigh Furlong that the next pandemic-causing disease could...

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PBMs play defense on the Hill ift.tt/VZhsLAj

PBMs play defense on the Hill

Lawmakers have become increasingly interested in PBMs, with some on Capitol Hill saying they aren’t transparent enough about how they operate and are incentivized to favor expensive drugs.

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