Medicare

TL/DR - The Biden Administration has announced an $11 million investment to expand medical residencies in rural communities, with fifteen medical systems across the US set to benefit. In Wisconsin, $750k of the investment will go to UW-Health’s OB-GYN program, while the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra has…

TL/DR - The article "Dollar Stability - Not Dollarization - Is the Fix for Javier Milei" discusses solutions for Argentina's economic problems. There's also a discussion on how union pledges are raising energy cost inflation in a crucial battleground state. The article "If Raleigh Budgeted More Like N.C., Taxpayers Would Save Millions" argues…

TL/DR - President Biden has claimed that legislation he signed, the Inflation Reduction Act, has saved the federal government $160 billion by giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. However, these savings have not yet been realized, with the Congressional Budget Office projecting 10-year cumulative savings of $161.7…

TL/DR - The state Public Employees Insurance Agency, which manages health insurance for more than 200,000 government workers in West Virginia, is facing resistance to its proposed 35% premium increase over two years. With the agency already facing a $376 million deficit earlier this year, the state Legislature passed a bill increasing health…