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The Host Julie RovnerKFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. On September 2, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, better known as ERISA. While the law was primarily intended to regulate and protect worker pensions, it also fundamentally chang...
Kaiser Health News
The Host Julie RovnerKFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition. On September 2, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, better known as ERISA. While the law was primarily intended to regulate and protect worker pensions, it also fundamentally chang...
California Healthline
A California bill requiring AI developers to put up safety protocols to stop “critical harms” against humanity has caused a stir among the Silicon Valley’s tech community. California’s ‘Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act,’ also known as SB 1047, would require AI developers to implement safety protocols to prevent events such as mass casualties or major cyberattacks. It was proposed by California Democratic legislators in February. The proposed regulations also mandate an “emergency stop” button for AI models, require annual third-party audits of AI safet...
Cointelegraph
I spent some time last week at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) summit, which attracts state lawmakers and legislative staff from around the country and was held this year in Louisville, Kentucky. The event's expo hall was packed with hundreds of booths, largely featuring the sorts of associations, businesses, and nonprofits you might expect to be trying to influence state policy. Perhaps not as expected was a sex worker rights group. Not as expected, that is, if you don't know anything about Decriminalize Sex Work (DSW). Since its founding in 2018, the organization has bee...
Reason
The Law Commission of England and Wales urged its government to categorize all crypto assets as a new form of personal property in its final report on digital assets. The Law Commission is an independent body primarily tasked with reviewing and recommending law reforms in England and Wales. On July 30, it published a supplemental report highlighting the inadequacy of the current categorization of personal property and its legal implications on crypto assets. Demand for a new type of personal propertyEnglish law categorizes personal property into two main types: things in possession (tangible p...
Cointelegraph
Health insurance agents who fraudulently enroll consumers in Affordable Care Act health plans could be subject to criminal charges — and civil penalties of $10,000 to $200,000 — under legislation introduced Wednesday by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Wyden first promised the bill in May, when he called on federal regulators to do more to combat sketchy Obamacare enrollment schemes. Often, consumers who are targeted don’t know they’ve been enrolled or that their coverage has been switched to a new plan until they lose access to preferred doctors, lea...
Kaiser Health News
Health insurance agents who fraudulently enroll consumers in Affordable Care Act health plans could be subject to criminal charges — and civil penalties of $10,000 to $200,000 — under legislation introduced Wednesday by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Wyden first promised the bill in May, when he called on federal regulators to do more to combat sketchy Obamacare enrollment schemes. Often, consumers who are targeted don’t know they’ve been enrolled or that their coverage has been switched to a new plan until they lose access to preferred doctors, lea...
California Healthline
Last month, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signed a bill mandating that a copy of the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public school classrooms in Louisiana. The law, House Bill 71, requires that the religious scripture be displayed on a poster or frame sized at least 11 inches by 14 inches and in a "large, easily readable font." Apparently anticipating a First Amendment challenge to the mandatory religious text, lawmakers included several provisions that attempt to strengthen the law against a constitutional challenge. For example, the law prohibits schools from using taxpayer funds to fi...
Reason
TikTok is in trouble: In April, President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation that forces ByteDance, the popular social media app's Chinese parent company, to sell its majority stake to a U.S.-based firm. If it fails to do this, the app will be banned in the United States. Various dubious arguments have been deployed against TikTok, but Congress' stated prime motive to force its divestiture is that the app's Chinese owners are beholden to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and thus having their tech on so many Americans' phones is a dire national security risk. The CCP is an authoritarian ...
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to close convenience stores in a 20-block area of the Tenderloin district between midnight and 5 a.m. for the next two years. Officials say convenience stores attract nighttime illegal drug activity. Restaurants, bars, and non-retail businesses will not be affected by the law. The post Brickbat: How Inconvenient appeared first on Reason.com.
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