Category Archives: In the News

Sydney Kurle: What are your plans and goals for health care policy in the 2021 legislative session? Sen. Karen Keiser: The 2021 session is going to be tough because it’s a virtual session, and we’ve never had that situation before. I have ...

Legislators have prefiled 134 bills for introduction during the 2021 session. Republican Rep. Blad Klippert has prefiled the most bills thus far with ten, followed by Sen. Karen Keiser with six. As for how this prefiling period compares to last ...

KENNEWICK, WA – Washington State has passed a new bill that caps insurance co-pays for Insulin at $100. The cap is for a 30-day supply of Insulin and applies to private insurance companies. This bill applies to any insurance plan that was ...

Many Washington residents with diabetes will have an easier time affording insulin this year, as a law imposes a $100 cap on patient copayments. The law applies to any health care plan issued or renewed after Jan. 1 that covers ...

A new 2021 Washington law caps the cost of insulin at $100 per month. Under the new law, health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2021 must cap insulin copayments, deductibles, and other forms of cost-sharing at ...

As another COVID-19 relief bill hangs in the balance, unemployment benefits for as many as 12 million Americans expired Saturday night, the day after Christmas. In Washington state, nearly 100,000 unemployed workers could lose their federal unemployment benefits known as ...

Fewer Washingtonians filed for jobless benefits last week than the week before, but those who did faced possible delays in a second round of emergency federal benefits after President Donald Trump demanded last-minute changes in the legislation. “You can’t cut ...

OLYMPIA — Washington’s government would spend $57.6 billion over the next two years in its efforts to fight COVID-19, shore up the economy and clean up the environment, under plans released Thursday by Gov. Jay Inslee. That total for the ...

From the Seattle Times Before the coronavirus pandemic closed most travel between Canada and the United States, a border guard would ask Molly Stenson why she was making a trip to British Columbia just to buy insulin. Stenson, a Mason ...