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Capitol Watchdog: Upcoming Meetings to Watch
Inadequate physician networks and out-of-network billing have cast an ugly shadow over the expanding healthcare market as more people have access to healthcare. Next Monday, the Department of...
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Capitol Watchdog: Upcoming Meetings to Watch
The state's political money watchdog has been aggressive in giving the public the ability to find out who and how much donors spend to sway lawmakers. So why is it considering removing behested...
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Capitol Watchdog: Upcoming Meetings to Watch
A few hearings next week might spark some interest. Assembly Health will be taking up Assemblyman David Chiu's timely AB 463, the Pharmaceutical Cost Transparency Act, which would require drug...
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Drink, Drugs and Disclosure Day For Doctors
Monday is Drink, Drugs and Disclosure Day for doctors in Sacramento when three major patient safety bills are scheduled to be heard in the Senate Business & Professions committee. The common theme...
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State Senate To Hold Hearings On Phony Blackout Blackmail Report
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that goes for blackout threats too. The California Senate Energy, Utilities & Commerce Committee has set an oversight hearing for May 10th to ask state...
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Doctors Swallow Bitter Pill
The Medical Board, whose job it is to keep patients safe from dangerous doctors, should be notified when a doctor with addiction issues fails a drug test, right? Senators Hill, Block and Jackson...
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Super Tuesday For Aliso Canyon
At 9:30 AM on Tuesday the California Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee will examine whether So Cal Gas and state energy regulators rigged a report claiming there would be blackouts...
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Oops,"No Blackouts This Summer," Edison, So Cal Gas Now Say!
The much awaited hearing in the Senate Utilities, Energy and Communications Committee this morning was largely a dud, but it offered some key admissions by the utilities and energy regulators. Despite...
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Question Cliff's Fitness for the PUC
Aliso Canyon was the biggest methane well blowout in U.S. history, and we still don't know why it happened. The California Public Utilities Commission just reopened the facility without the necessary...
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Senate Turns Up Heat on Gov Brown's PUC Nominee
At a confirmation hearing yesterday, Senate leader Kevin de Leon took the unusual step of withholding his support for Governor Brown’s nominees to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Cliff...
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