
What We’re Reading: Health Insurance Rebates; More States Legalize Fentanyl Test Strips; Reanimated Hearts Used for Transplants
The possibility of individual Americans receiving a health insurance rebate is slim; more states are legalizing fentanyl test strips to fight soaring opioid deaths; reanimated hearts donated after death work just as well for transplants, study finds.
Possible Windfall in Health Insurance Rebates
Former Democratic Senator Al Franken recently posted on Twitter that Americans will receive “$1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year” because of a provision he wrote into the Affordable Care Act,
More States Legalizing Fentanyl Test Strips to Fight Opioid Deaths
Legalizing fentanyl test strips could bring the number of overdose deaths connected to the drug down, say advocates, by helping more people understand the possible lethality of their drugs,
Reanimated Hearts Donated Postmortem Work For Transplants, Study Finds
A new study found that an innovative method of heart transplantation that uses machines to reanimate donor hearts from people who have died after circulatory death is just as effective as traditional heart transplantation,
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