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Sherrill accepts Cuban offer to help tackle state health benefits crisis

October 5, 2026 12:23 pm

Gov. Mikie Sherrill is taking Mark Cuban up on his offer to help New Jersey rein in the soaring cost of its public employee health benefits program, welcoming the billionaire entrepreneur to “Team Jersey” as her administration searches for ways...

Mark Cuban offers to help Sherrill fix state health benefits program

October 4, 2026 3:17 pm

Gov. Mikie Sherrill is noncommittal on an offer from billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban to help New Jersey rein in the soaring cost of its troubled public employee health benefits program. Cuban, the co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs and former owner...

Sherrill launches group to tackle rising public employee health costs

October 1, 2026 3:40 pm

Gov. Mikie Sherrill is launching a broad working group to recommend changes to New Jersey’s public employee health benefits system, bringing unions, health care providers, insurers, local government groups, and lawmakers together to control rising costs. The State Health Benefits...

Sherrill signs $8 million school mental health pilot law

September 28, 2026 10:54 am

Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed legislation Monday creating an $8 million pilot program to connect students with behavioral health services through their schools, part of more than $125 million in state spending on youth mental health and wellness programs this school...

Sooner or later, this will be your prescription

September 23, 2026 5:38 amSeptember 22, 2026 11:02 pm

OPINION Tom is an 84-year-old New Jersey man on Medicare. His doctor recently prescribed Xdemvy: an eye drop. Without insurance, the retail price he was quoted was $2,500. With his Medicare coverage, his cost was about $650. But there was...

Senators: The PBM industry just made our point

September 1, 2026 6:08 amSeptember 1, 2026 4:34 pm

OPINION For the last several weeks, we have been asking some simple questions about pharmacy benefit managers. Why should the company deciding which drugs patients can access also profit from those decisions? Why should a PBM be able to steer...

Murphy backs Trump effort to limit mail-in voting

August 28, 2026 10:50 pmAugust 28, 2026 10:51 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Justin Murphy, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Cory Booker this fall, has endorsed the Trump administration’s effort to restrict mail-in voting after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for portions of the administration’s executive order...