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Governor’s 2025-26 May Revision Proposes Major Cuts to Healthcare and Undermines Medi-Cal Expansion Commitments

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. Cuts to Medi-Cal and other safety net programs threaten to destabilize access to care at a time when communities need it most.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

That has placed them in the rare company of becoming one of the Top Fifteen Under 15 businesses in our community. The individuals who make up the practice impact the community in a variety of ways. Family Physicians of St. Joseph, P.C., Anchored at 147 Peace Boulevard in St.

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

Koblitz — You know a court decision is going to be worth reading when the judges compare FDA’s regulatory governance of flavored e-cigarettes to a Shakespearean gaslighting. By David B. Clissold & Sara W. But administrative law does not turn on such infinitesimal possibilities.”

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. In 2016 there were about a thousand MAID deaths, in 2021 there were about 10,000. Four percent. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Please.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

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Marijuana: Top Ten Reasons for Descheduling, Rescheduling or Not

FDA Law Blog

There has been no evidence that marijuana’s schedule should change since the last rescheduling review in 2016. The regulated cannabis marketplace brings in billions of dollars in revenue into state and federal governments, with predictions that cannabis sales will exceed $53 billion by 2027. In other words, no rescheduling.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. Whereas with comprehensive dementia care, what you really need is a lot of the support that is delivered in the community. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education.