Tag: Governor Gavin Newsom

Drug developers caution against US mifepristone ban

Volume 401, Issue 10385
22 April 2023 

 

WORLD REPORT     A lawsuit against the FDA embroils pharmaceutical companies in debates over access to
abortion. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

Less than 1 year after the US Supreme Court ended its 1973 constitutional guarantee to an abortion and told state lawmakers that they could decide whether a person ends their pregnancy, abortion is now back before the court. But this fresh legal challenge has dragged the nation’s entire drug approval system along with it, rousing a powerful lobbying group and economic force that has mostly managed to avoid the fray—the pharmaceutical industry. [Continued here.]…

NYC guarantees health care to all

 Volume 393, Number 10169   

26 January 2019       

 

WORLD REPORT   The mayor of New York City is not counting on Congress for solutions to its health-care problems, Susan Jaffe reports.

By encouraging patients to seek primary and preventive care instead of more expensive emergency care, city officials expect to save money and keep people healthy. 
     “From this moment on, in New York City, everyone is guaranteed the right to health care—everyone”, declared New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he unveiled his so-called NYC Care plan this month. People who cannot pay or are ineligible for health insurance—including undocumented immigrants—will be able to get the most comprehensive and affordable health coverage in the country, at little or no cost, the mayor said, speaking in both English and Spanish.  “This is a way of getting people health care here and now, regardless of what happens on the state or the federal level”. [Continued here.]  
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