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California Gov. Newsom reins in AI chatbots in healthcare

California Gov. Newsom reins in AI chatbots in healthcare

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 489, which prohibits AI chatbots from representing themselves as licensed healthcare professionals and allows medical licensing boards to seek injunctions against violating companies. This...
Hospital-at-Home Program Becomes Collateral Damage of the Shutdown

Hospital-at-Home Program Becomes Collateral Damage of the Shutdown

The ongoing federal government shutdown has halted one of Medicare’s most innovative and patient-centered programs ,the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative, forcing hospitals to bring patients back into already strained...
This Week in Policy – Wrap up for the week of October 6

This Week in Policy – Wrap up for the week of October 6

MIT first school to rebuff White House deal: ‘Scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone’  | Fierce Bio | October 10, 2025 What’s Happening: MIT President Sally Kornbluth rejected...

Headlines from DC

HHS hires back some feds dismissed during the shutdown that work on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, outbreak response and in the director’s office of the Global Health Center. Read the latest. Tuesday, October 14, 2025
6th vote in Senate to reopen the government fails Read the latest. Wednesday, October 8, 2025
President Trump signals he is open to a deal on healthcare to end the shutdown. Read more. Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Strange bedfellows: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) touted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call to extend Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies on the Senate floor Read the latest. Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Whispers

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) has broken with President Trump and is supporting the ACA subsidies.

Rumor has it some Dems in Senate are OK with a short 7 day clean CR so they can hash out the larger healthcare portion with the governement operating.

Trump cancels meeting to hash out CR with Democratic leadership.

Speaker Johnson released the CR language to keep the government funded until Nov. 20…but it doesn’t have the ACA language that the Dems are demanding. Are we going to have a showdown ending in a shutdown?

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California Gov. Newsom reins in AI chatbots in healthcare

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Hospital-at-Home Program Becomes Collateral Damage of the Shutdown

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