Most health care services in the U.S. cost at least twice what they do in other countries, and sometimes up to ten times as much.
Today, we’re bringing you the best from newsrooms across Washington… First, President Joe Biden announced an executive order that created the first-ever national assessment of nature, but President Donald Trump rescinded the effort on his first day in office. The team that had started the work – led by a professor at the University of Washington – refused to give it up. Next, doctors at UW Medicine’s Long Covid Clinic are beginning to see patterns of how Long Covid is impacting various communities, including Latino farmworkers. And finally, you heard about it on Casual Friday - The notoriously late number 8 bus in Seattle is finally getting fixed.
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