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TL/DR - The Pa. Senate's Majority Policy Committee has held a hearing to discuss the unique healthcare challenges faced by rural Pennsylvanians. Senator Scott Hutchinson highlighted the specific challenges, such as the higher average ages and greater number of financially disadvantaged people. It was pointed out that the cost of treating COVID-19…

TL/DR - Réka Juhász, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, studies industrial policy, a strategy in which governments aim to promote specific economic sectors. Since the 1980s, industrial policy has been largely disregarded as ineffective and possibly harmful. However, countries, including the U.S under President Biden,…

TL/DR - Following a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are considered children, several fertility clinics and shipping services are pausing embryo transfers in or out of Alabama. Many doctors and patients are uncertain about the restrictions this ruling places on fertility treatments,…

TL/DR - Steward Health Care, a company that operates 10 hospitals in Massachusetts, has expressed interest in "orderly departure" from the state. The Dallas-based company currently owes $50 million in unpaid rent and reportedly employs over 15,000 healthcare workers in the state. Governor Maura Healey has asked the company to provide a concrete…