Utah’s Medicaid system is getting a much needed $3.5 million boost from two pharmaceutical companies who inflated their costs so heavily, Utah sued.
After a judicial victory in Florida for conservatives who oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff now says it can’t be enforced in Utah. But the governor isn’t sure yet where to go on this issue. We talked with Chief Deputy Attorney General John Swallow about what this ruling means.
Teenage moms could sign off on their own vaccinations without parental consent, under a bill that cleared the Utah Legislature’s House Health and Human Services Committee yesterday. KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports.
For the fifth year in a row, some Utah lawmakers will attempt to ban drivers from smoking with their kids in the car. Democratic Representative Patrice Arent is sponsoring the bill this time around.
One plan to help the state meet a proposed seven percent budget cut would hit college students in the pocket book. A potential bill discussed in the legislature Monday would trim Medicaid costs by requiring them to get health insurance. As KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, some lawmakers believe pregnant college students shouldn’t be using the program.
Wendell Potter used to be a top executive at a major health insurance corporation, CIGNA. Now, he’s trying to get the word out about the industry’s abuses, and how it’s heavily shaping the health care debate in Washington. We talked with him about his new book, Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans.
Social service advocates gathered at the Utah Capitol’s dumpster Tuesday, hoping to send the message to lawmakers that there are no disposable members of society. The group held signs and handwritten letters protesting expected cuts to health and human services.
Small business owners joined Utah Democratic Party leaders yesterday in Salt Lake City to make one last appeal to the lawmakers who are likely to vote to repeal the health care reform law passed last March. KCPW’s Whittney Evans reports.
Intermountain Healthcare says the rising number of premature, elective C-sections is costing the nation billions in medical expenses and putting mothers and their babies at risk. For the past 10 years, the Intermountain Women and Newborns Clinical Program has driven down the number of premature C-sections in Utah by encouraging physicians to reconsider inducing birth before 39 weeks.
Some Utahns say they are being denied the right to live independently. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Utah’s Division of Services for People with Disabilities after a complaint that disabled Utahns are being forced to move into a nursing home in order to receive state services.
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