Advisory Board January 14, 2026

New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the annual number of deaths in the United States is projected to exceed the annual number of births by 2030, in today’s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, the District of Columbia, and Illinois.

  • California: In December, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. for the Northern District of California approved a preliminary agreement for a class action lawsuit requiring Aetna to equally cover fertility treatments, such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization, for same-sex couples like it does for heterosexual couples. According to the Associated Press, it is the first case to require a health insurer to apply this policy nationally for all its enrollees....

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