Proposition 29, the third statewide dialysis initiative in the past 5 years in California, imposes new requirements on dialysis clinics such as requiring a doctor to be on hand during treatments. The other requirements included in the proposition would require clinics to report infections to the state and disclose when doctors have a stake in the clinic to patients.

The Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) requires employers to complete two disclosure requirements pertaining to the creditable coverage of their prescription drug plan.

The Newsom administration states that roughly 4 million Californians suffer from diabetes. One in 4 people with diabetes who rely on insulin cannot afford it, forcing many to ration the treatment or completely forego it, which can have deadly consequences.

Pfizer has reaped influence and outsized profits during the first two years of the pandemic. Their success in developing COVID medicines (both vaccines and treatment drugs) has given the drugmaker an unusual and unhealthy amount of weight and influence in developing and shaping U S health policy. Pfizer had a total revenue of 81.3 billion in 2021, nearly doubling their previous annual revenue in 2020. Pfizer’s MRNA COVID vaccine holds a 70% market share over U.S and European markets.