Bipartisan hospital price transparency legislation cleared a key hurdle in the Senate Wednesday, but some big hospital groups are pushing back. The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, led by Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall and Democratic Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper, would require U.S. hospitals and health insurers to publicly disclose medical care prices, according to…
Conservatives argue that Republicans in Congress are betraying American farm workers with this new amnesty bill. Republican Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania introduced the Securing Agricultural Workforce Act (SAWA) on June 30, which aims to allow illegal aliens working in the agricultural sector to stay in the United States. Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former…
Japan is now floating imposing new regulations on its trading card market amid the surging value of the items driving counterfeiting and alleged money laundering, Bloomberg reported Thursday. A new ruling Liberal Democratic Party caucus in Japan formed to investigate the matter claimed in a statement that “trading cards are no longer simply consumer products,”…
A Republican congresswoman is taking a stand against climate litigation going through the courts. Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman and legal experts promoted her Stop Climate Shakedowns Act during a noon briefing hosted by the America Leads Alliance on Wednesday. At the briefing, Hageman declared that “Energy security is national security.” Sponsored by Hageman and…
For decades, Americans have been told that “the cloud” is something invisible — a magical place where photographs, emails, financial records and now artificial intelligence simply exist. Unfortunately, the truth is considerably less romantic. The cloud has an address and that address is a neighborhood. Across Virginia and around the nation, enormous data centers are…
China is reportedly using cryptocurrency to take advantage of America’s steroid craze. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA )’s Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet this Thursday and Friday to discuss whether seven peptides — loosely regulated protein-building chemicals — may be added to the Section 503A Bulks List, which determines what drugs…
