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The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived

KFF Health News

Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The mushrooms are a Schedule I drug and illegal under federal law except for clinical research.

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NC Senate budget plan filled with health care policy initiatives

NC Health News

By Grace Vitaglione and Rose Hoban The North Carolina Senates proposed budget for the next two fiscal years is packed with policy around new health care initiatives, including repealing North Carolinas hospital capacity regulation laws, trimming vacant state job openings and increasing rates for child care subsidies.

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How Did We End Up with a Broken Health Insurance System? 

The Health Care Blog

Health insurance wasnt always run by big for profit corporations According to Elizabeth Rosenthals book, An American Sickness (a must read), it all started in the 1920s when the Vice President of Baylor University Medical Center discovered that they were carrying a large number of unpaid bills. and they operate accordingly.

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The Network Appoints Quang (“Q”) Dang as Managing Director, Legal Programs & Strategy

The Network for Public Health Law

The Network for Public Health Law is thrilled to announce the appointment of Quang (“Q”) Dang as Managing Director, Legal Programs and Strategy. “Our vision is of a world where laws, policies, funding, and infrastructure promote public health through evidence, equity, and community engagement.,”

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Scathing audit for N.C. oversight of nursing homes

NC Health News

by Lucas Thomae and Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press State oversight of nursing homes received a scathing performance audit, released on Wednesday. The DHHS Division of Health Service Regulations role is to routinely inspect those nursing homes and investigate complaints involving them. 1, 2019, through Dec.

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Caring Does Not Pay

The Health Care Blog

Required staffing ratios and other regulations make child care exceedingly expensive for parents. the frightening reality is that come 2022, hospitals will reach a novel level of short-staffed, and it will have horrendous repercussions on our health system and the patients reliant on it.” Well, we’re in 2022, and Ms. Sefton was right.

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An Upside Down Future for Healthcare

The Health Care Blog

Kelly suggests trying to picture the “history” of an imagined future, the steps required to get to X in year YYYY, so that we can understand “What kinds of technology and laws and social expectations needed to be in place year by year in order to arrive at that state.” How do we regulated it? What would we do if X was true?