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States burdened with the costs of mitigating and responding to the effects of climate change have looked to a decades old federal law as a model for allocating those costs to the industries that emit the greenhouse gases that fuel climate change. The law...


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Drug checking services have been shown to reduce the risk of overdose by providing people with information on what is in drugs bought outside of pharmacies. State drug paraphernalia laws can limit access to drug checking initiatives by prohibiting posses...


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A Message from Executive Director Quang (“Q”) Dang and Executive Managing Director Ann Phi-Wendt

In Columbia Heights, a suburb of Minneapolis, a five-year-old boy named 


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Many charity care laws cover charges from hospitals, but do not extend to independent hospital-based providers. For example, a patient who has surgery at a hospital may receive a bill from the hospital for myriad services and medications and a separate b...


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HDUs can provide health departments critical information to respond proactively to emergencies, public health risks, and equity focused use cases. They also address many contemporary concerns around data sharing, such as transparency around governance an...


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