Two regulations announced Friday take aim at health care prices. One, to affect patients by 2021, addresses hospital rates. The second, a proposal, would require more upfront clarity from insurers.
Instead of just hanging up posters with anti-vaping messages around a Forest Lake middle school, one teacher enlisted her husband and her colleagues to craft a video to get their message out: Vaping is “poison.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated about 36,000 Americans died from drug-resistant infections in 2017. That’s down 18 percent from 2013.
A national survey by psychologists shows a significant rise in U.S. stress in 2019. Mass shootings, the election campaign and concerns about health care costs and access top the list of stressors.