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In today’s healthcare, President Biden celebrated the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine to the youngest children, swiping at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R).
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Biden: No one should prevent the vax of young children
President Biden swipes Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Tuesday to refuse to invest state resources to help providers pre-order COVID-19 vaccine for infants under the age of five did.
Biden spoke at the White House to celebrate the day when children aged 6 months to 5 years became available to the vaccine. This was eligible for the last group of Americans.
“Let’s be clear. Elected civil servants should not interfere with making it more difficult for parents who want their children to be vaccinated and want to protect their children and those around them,” Biden said. Said.
“It’s not time for politics. It means parents can do everything they can to keep their children safe.”
Flashback: DeSantis is enthusiastic about his decision not to pre-order the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine for infants, not only from infectious disease experts, but also from national and state Democrats.
Florida was the only state that decided not to place an order.
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AARP urges Manchin to support drug negotiations
AARP is urging Sen to launch a multi-million dollar advertising campaign across West Virginia’s print, radio, cable and television broadcast networks. Joe Manchin (D) Support a settlement bill that includes Medicare drug price negotiations.
The ad will start on Wednesday and will run in the state-wide market until July 5. A television ad titled “The Right Thing” urges Manchin to “continue to fight for drug price cuts.”
“Everyone knows that Joe Manchin cares about West Virginia people, and he knows that many of us are having a hard time paying for our medicines. That’s why he. Supports having Medicare negotiate a drug price cut, “says an advertising narrator.
environment: The ad is personally negotiated by Senate leader Charles Schumer (DN.Y.) With Manchin to revive spending bills to address climate change and lower prices for prescription drugs. Displayed when trying.
Manchin has long supported drug price cuts, including price negotiations, and said at a recent AARP event in West Virginia that Democrats must pass drug price laws before the midterm elections.
But progressives are angry with Manchin for killing the first bill that would have accomplished it. Action is more eloquent than words, according to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)’S aide.
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Most households are affected by extreme weather
Extreme weather events such as heavy rains, wildfires and heat waves are occurring more and more frequently, partly due to the effects of climate change.
Millions of people in the west and south have been hit by heat waves this week. Many people around the world have seen the effects of natural disasters each year, but Americans are also experiencing more and more of this type of event.
A new poll found that the majority of households in the United States are affected by extreme weather events, leading to health and financial problems for some households.
The majority say they are affected: According to poll results and reports released today by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard TH Chan Public Health School, 78% of adults in the United States have been affected by extreme weather events over the past five years.
Some US households who participated in polls that stated they were personally affected by extreme weather reported serious health problems (24%) or financial problems (17%). 14 percent of them say they had to evacuate from their home, and 14 percent say they suffered damage to their home or property.
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Address the Mental Health Crisis of “Five Alerts”
The recent rash of mass shootings has rekindled national conversations about gun violence and mental health.
This is a pattern that makes supporters such as Schroeder Striveling, president of Mental Health America, concerned about the prejudices and misunderstandings of mental illness. But she also sees room for her actions.
“Most importantly, people with mental illness are far more likely to be victims of gun violence than perpetrators,” Striveling said in a recent interview. “The message can be lost very quickly.”
“We have great concerns about stigma,” she added. “So when there is a shooting and people turn around first [to]: “What was the mental health problem that caused it?”
Youth crisis in the midst of a pandemic: Striveling has been a non-profit advocate for about a year, and another crisis in the mental health world has caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Looking straight down at the list of risk factors shows that overall distress and crisis are accelerating,” she said. “But obviously the five alarm alarms are for young people.”
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Mark Cuban drug prices save $ 3.6 billion in Medicare
Have Mark Cuban Did you find a better way to buy generics?
New research suggests that millionaire entrepreneurs may be working on something.
According to a new study, Medicare could have saved up to $ 3.6 billion in 2020 if it bought generics at the price paid by billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
A study by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests the inefficiency of how Medicare currently pays for generics.
What is a Cuban company? Launched online earlier this year, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company aims to simplify the complex drug supply chain and provide consumers with savings. We offer commonly used generics with 15% markup, plus $ 3 dispensing fee and $ 5 shipping. No insurance is available. That is, the patient pays at his own expense.
Significant savings: The study found that the simplified model saves a lot of money. The $ 3.6 billion savings represent 37% of the $ 9.6 billion spent on 89 medicines that Medicare found in the study. Of these medicines, 77 were saved and 12 were not.
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What we are reading
- In Covid messaging, Biden is sandwiched between politics and public health (statistics)
- Women are more likely to develop COVID longer than men, study results (ABC News)
- The COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 5 has finally arrived, but most parents aren’t in line (USA Today).
State by state
- New Jersey retreats from $ 34 million fight with health insurance company (Bloomberg)
- Medi-Cal covers Doula at more than double the originally proposed rate in California (Kaiser Health News)
- Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Signs Abortion Ban on Rape and Incest Without Exception (The Daily Advertiser)
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