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President-elect Joe Biden has laid out a proposal to address the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating economic fallout.
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Biden’s ‘Rescue’ Plan
In a speech to the nation Thursday night, Biden called for quick congressional action on the sweeping package, which will include steps to speed production and distribution of vaccines, an additional $1,400 in direct payments to individuals, an increased minimum wage, expanded unemployment benefits, aid to state and local governments and an expansion of aid to families with children.
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Davis Media Access: Strange tales from the pandemic
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It’s been 10 months since I launched the “COVID-19 Community Report” on KDRT 95.7 FM. I’ve interviewed many people during that time, and with each conversation, I aim to let people tell their stories whatever they may be about the impacts of the pandemic.
Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. Consider the sports editor when there are no games, no practices, no preseason. What’s a guy to do? If you’re Bruce Gallaudet, sports editor of this very newspaper, you muddle through and cover the angles you can. Catch our conversation from this week about the status of UC Davis athletics, and the trickle-down effect that happens when high-school youth don’t have college-level opportunities to pursue.
o Outpatient Treatment
The development of this program is in response to the continued prevalence of opioid addiction in New Jersey and across the country. In the first half of 2020, New Jersey had a 13% increase in drug overdose deaths compared to 2019, as tallied by NJCARES. This is an area where we see an unmet need in the communities we treat, says Arel Meister-Aldama, CEO Sprout Health Group. It is our mission at Sprout to provide quality treatment programs that recognize each client s unique struggles and provide services that can improve their odds for achieving long-term recovery for behavioral health challenges. Medication Assisted Treatment needs to be an option for those struggling with addiction.
Monday, January 11, 2021
DHCS”) will be transitioning all Medi-Cal pharmacy benefits from managed care to fee-for-service (“
FFS”). This new system to administer FFS pharmacy benefits is being called “Medi-Cal Rx” and was developed by DHCS in response California Governor Gavin Newsom’s January 7, 2019 executive order (the “
Order”), which instructed DHCS to transition all Medi-Cal pharmacy benefits to FFS by January 1, 2021. The rationale behind the Order is to combat rising prices for prescription drugs by increasing the State’s bargaining power in negotiating prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. The date of transition was subsequently pushed back to April 1, 2021 so currently no pharmacy managed care benefits have been impacted.
December 14, 2020
UCLA In the News lists selected mentions of UCLA in the world’s news media. Some articles may require registration or a subscription to view. See more UCLA In the News.
For Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA, weather is an obvious inroad into engaging people on climate change, as people are way more likely to respond to a fire or flood at their doorstep than a chart of rising emissions. “People talk about the weather day to day, but they don’t talk about climate change day to day,” Swain said.
“One of the things that California has been so important for is really experimenting and demonstrating what works … so there’s a lot of opportunity for learning from those experiences,” said Ann Carlson, a professor of environmental law at UCLA. “That’s sort of the hallmark of federalism. States are laboratories, and no state has been a bigger laboratory for climate policy than California.”