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Florida will need more nurses, home health aides, mental health professionals and other medical workers. It's a flagship issue as lawmakers return to work this week in Tallahassee.
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On this episode, we recount the year in health care — from global progress on COVID to rising syphilis rates, a suicide hotline, federal leadership in women's health, and more.
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Some of the health-related cases that will go before the state Supreme Court involve ballot referendums, with issues including abortion and marijuana.
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Delaying cancer treatment can be deadly — which makes the roadblock-riddled process that health insurers use to approve or deny care particularly daunting for oncology patients.
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Thousands of medical devices are sold, and even implanted, with no safety tests.
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Kathleen Passidomo, who's making her "Live Healthy" initiative a priority during the session, discussed this and other issues on "The Florida Roundup."
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Proposals include expanding residency programs to keep doctors in the state and taking steps to divert nonemergent patients from ERs to other facilities. The legislative session begins Jan. 9.
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A health care package calls for spending nearly $900 million to shift patients away from emergency rooms, offset hospitals’ training costs and help doctors pay off debt, among other things.
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Lina Khan, chair of the FTC, says a recent lawsuit is meant to chill the consolidation of medical groups that results in higher prices for consumers. But it may be too late to curb price hikes.
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The governors square off in a first-of-its-kind debate Thursday. Let's compare the political rivals’ health care positions, showing how their policies helped — or hinder— the health of their states’ residents.