Healthcare Roundup—Opioid package heads to Trump's desk; deductible and premium hikes eat employees' wage growth

The Senate passed a massive package aimed at addressing the nation's opioid addiction crisis, sending the bill to the president's desk on Wednesday. The opioid package includes more than 70 bills, including the STOP Act to halt illegal drugs at the border. The legislation would allow the Food and Drug Administration to require prescription opioids to be packaged in set amounts and would support the development of nonaddictive drugs for pain. It also includes something called Jessie's Law, named after a Michigan woman who died of an opioid overdose, which would ensure that doctors have access to a consenting patient's prior history of addiction as they make treatment decisions.