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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio House put its stamp on a Senate bill that would restrict Gov. Mike DeWine’s ability to issue health orders on Wednesday, putting the Republican-controlled legislature and the Republican governor one step closer to another showdown on the issue. Senate Bill 22 passed the House by a 57 to 35 vote with almost all Republicans voting ‘yes’ and all Democrats voting ‘no.’ ...
Local lawmaker says he supports vaccines but won’t take COVID shot Laura Bischoff State Rep. Scott Lipps, who was named chairman of the Ohio House Health Committee, said he believes in vaccines but he won’t get vaccinated against COVID-19 when he becomes eligible. “I don’t understand the science. I really am not convinced. I’m really worried about the trials on that,” said Lipps, who owns a mattress company and home health care supplies firm. A recent online report by AJ-Plus, an outlet that is part of the Al Jazeera Media Network and funded by Qatar, painted Lipps...
The cost of insulin has been kept artificially high for millions of Americans because drug manufacturers and middlemen work together to maximize their profits, a new bipartisan investigation shows. This maneuvering around the growing price tag for medicine needed by diabetics to combat America's No. 7 killer represents a microcosm of the reasons prescription drugs cost so much in the U.S. It also demonstrates one of the consequences of growing consolidation within American health care, a trend The Dispatch is investigating. “Insulin is Exhibit A of why America’s drug pricing system ...
DeWine: Ohioans age 65 and over, school employees next in line for virus vaccines Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch © Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch Registered nurse Sandra Miller prepares a COVID-19 vaccination for emergency room nurse practitioner Breanna Crouch at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. The hospital received the vaccines on Tueday and began giving its frontline employees the vaccine first. Replay Video Skip Ad Citing the elevated risk of death to older Ohioans and the need to get children back in classrooms, Gov....