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New York Senate Approves Bill To Mandate Medical Marijuana Health Insurance Coverage

June 10, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The New York Senate approved a bill on Wednesday that would require public health insurance programs to cover medical marijuana expenses and clarify that private insurers are allowed to do the same. The legislation, sponsored by Diane Savino (D), moved through two committees before passing the Senate by a vote of 53-10, and it’s now…

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Mayor Eric Adams promotes healthy eating in New York City with 2 executive orders

February 16, 2022 Sharika Soukup

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed two executive orders Thursday signaling his administration’s commitment to procuring, preparing, and serving healthy and nutritious food citywide. The orders were signed at the Mercy Center Bronx, an emergency food pantry, and further underscore what Adams calls a commitment to food justice and…

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Supreme Court declines to halt New York vaccine mandate for health care workers

December 17, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place New York’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers, turning away a challenge by a group of medical providers who sued because it does not include a religious exemption. Over the dissents of Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, the high court rejected…

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Supreme Court Allows Vaccine Mandate for New York Health Care Workers

December 14, 2021 Sharika Soukup

“Faced with an especially contagious variant of the virus in the midst of a pandemic that has now claimed the lives of over 750,000 in the United States and some 55,000 in New York, the state decided as an emergency measure to require vaccination for all employees at health care facilities who might become infected…

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17 health care professionals, citing religious reasons, seek to prevent New York State from enforcing vaccine mandate

September 14, 2021 Sharika Soukup

The professionals — nine doctors, five nurses, a nuclear medicine technologist, a physician liaison and a rehabilitation therapist — are seeking a judgment declaring the mandate “unconstitutional, unlawful, and unenforceable,” according to the lawsuit. “The Vaccine Mandate emerges in the context of an atmosphere of fear and irrationality in which the unvaccinated are threatened with…

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