Q: Does secrecy contribute to health-care costs?

A: Sticker-shock for health-care in the United States has been a growing concern for decades. From prescription drugs to lab tests, durable medical equipment, outpatient surgery, and hospital stays, Americans increasingly feel they pay through the roof for medical care.

DES MOINES, IOWA (June 28, 2019) — Governor Kim Reynolds today announced her appointment of Christopher Polking as a district court judge in Judicial Election District 2B. Polking, of Carroll, Iowa, received his undergraduate degree from Tufts University and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School. He currently practices law at the Polking Law Office in Carroll and previously served as a part-time judicial magistrate in Carroll County for nine years.

WASHINGTON DC (June 28, 2019) — Today, House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Chair Stacey E Plaskett, and the Democratic members of the subcommittee, sent a letter to Sonny Perdue, the Secretary of Agriculture, expressing strong concern.

The letter can be found here.

June 28, 2019

The Honorable Sonny Perdue

Secretary of Agriculture

United States Department of Agriculture

WASHINGTON DC (June 28, 2019) — Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles "Chuck" Grassley submitted policy suggestions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as the agency finalizes proposed federal guidance clarifying how CMS and state surveyors will evaluate the use of shared space, shared staff, and contracted services by hospitals that are co-located with other hospitals and health-care providers under the Medicare program.