{"id":13418,"date":"2021-05-20T21:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=13418"},"modified":"2021-05-20T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T21:57:50","slug":"legislative-news-05-20-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/legislative-news-05-20-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative News, 05\/20\/2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal news<\/b><\/p>\n

Top 3 health care takeaways from Biden’s address<\/a> [Roll Call, 4\/29\/21]
\n(1) To grant Medicare negotiation power to lower prescription drug costs and to expand Medicare, (2) to establish a permanent provision of lowering Affordable Care Act health care premiums, and (3) to found a new health care advanced research projects agency housed within NIH, to develop treatments for such diseases as cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes.<\/p>\n

Bill to watch<\/i>
\nHB3149<\/a> To expand access to health care services for immigrants by removing legal and policy barriers to health insurance coverage, and for other purposes. Related article in Roll Call: Democrats unveil bill to expand immigrant health care access<\/a> [5\/12\/21]<\/p>\n

State news<\/b><\/p>\n

This FAQ from Lexology, “Regarding Employer COVID-19 Vaccination and Return-to-Work Issues<\/a>“, covers many questions that employers may have and specifically mentions proposed legislation in Illinois.<\/p>\n

Once again, the Illinois Library Association has provided a noteworthy Legislative Update in the ILA Alert<\/a> with lots of information on several items of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal news Top 3 health care takeaways from Biden’s address [Roll Call, 4\/29\/21] (1) To grant Medicare negotiation power to lower prescription drug costs and to expand Medicare, (2) to establish a permanent provision of lowering Affordable Care Act health care premiums, and (3) to found a new health care advanced research projects agency housed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}