From NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, March 24, 2016 TRENTON — Boosting the state minimum wage to $15 an hour in 2021 would benefit one in four workers in New Jersey, 90 percent of whom are at least 20
From the National Law Journal, March 16, 2016 In nearly two decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Judge Merrick Garland has rarely ruled against the National Labor Relations Board. But when he has overturned NLRB’s
From KHN: Kaiser Health News Health insurance isn’t simple. Neither are government regulations. Put the two together and things can get confusing fast. So it’s not surprising that federal regulators took a stab at making things a bit more straightforward
From The Record HackensackUMC Palisades, as it will now be known, will become a fully owned part of the system that includes the flagship Hackensack University Medical Center, two jointly owned hospitals in Westwood and Montclair, and the affiliated Englewood
From NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, February 25, 2016 TRENTON — In 2014, the first full year of the Affordable Care Act, the amount of charity care hospitals provided to treat the uninsured fell by nearly 50 percent, according to
From National Public Radio (NPR), February 23, 2016 When Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders stumps for health care for everyone, it always gets huge applause. “I believe that the U.S. should do what every other major country on Earth is doing,”
From the Star-Ledger, February 21, 2016 Too many of our fellow New Jerseyans go to work every day, some to two jobs, and do not make enough money to put food on the table, pay the heating and electric bills,
From the Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2015 A decision by Congress to defer a new tax on expensive employer health plans would cost the government an estimated $9 billion and have a potent symbolic effect as the first major
From Fierce Healthcare, December 11, 2015 Survival rates for patients who suffer in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) during their hospital stay are often low. Less than 25 percent of these patients live to return home. However, rates can vary significantly from
From NJ Spotlight , December 11, 2015 Labor unions representing the state’s nurses have won a key legislative skirmish over reducing the registered nurses-to-patients ratio allowed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. But it remains very uncertain whether the unions