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Activists Criticize Focus of “Sandra Bland Act”

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas police-reform bill named after a black woman found dead in jail following a confrontation with a white state trooper during a traffic stop has been stripped down to the point that some community organizers say it’s no longer a worthy tribute. The death of Sandra Bland in 2015 was a […]

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R.I. May Ease Rules on Sunscreen in Schools

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow students to take sunscreen into schools without a doctor’s note. The state House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass the bill Tuesday. The bill now moves to the Senate. Concerns about skin cancer have led several states to loosen restrictions on sunscreen […]

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New Law Extends VA Choice

Veterans will continue to have access to private health-care facilities closer to their homes with quicker appointments, as provided by the Veterans Choice Program Improvement Act. President Donald Trump, on April 19, signed a measure extending the program, which allows health care for service-connected medical conditions and use of funding for it until it is […]

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McConnell Opens Health Group to Women

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has invited all Republicans to join with what’s been an all-male working group of GOP senators to craft a health care bill, after facing criticism that women were being excluded. “McConnell stood up and said, ‘Please come and participate,’” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said in an interview, […]

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What’s a Pre-Existing Condition?

The American Health Care Act, the GOP plan to overhaul the US healthcare system, passed in the House on Thursday. What counts as a preexisting condition that could get you denied coverage under the new plan? A lot. The bill raises concerns, especially from patient advocacy groups and physicians, that under the AHCA, people with […]

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Buffett: “Huge Tax Cut for Guys Like Me”

Billionaire Warren Buffett on Saturday criticized the Republican healthcare plan, passed through the House last week, as a “huge tax cut for guys like me” and bad news for the less fortunate. “When there’s a tax cut, either the deficit goes up or they get the taxes from somebody else,” Buffet told shareholders at Berkshire […]

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Senate Wary of House Health Plan

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans have shown they have little use for the House bill to repeal and replace Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act amid fears among Americans that people already sick won’t be able to get affordable insurance. “I’m going to read the House bill, find out what it costs and where I find good […]

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N.Y. Drops Request for Prison Care

A year ago, the Cuomo administration announced it would seek a waiver from the feds to provide Medicaid coverage 30 days before release to prisoners with significant mental or physical health issues. But a day before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the state withdrew its request. With a new administration and new leaders at the Department […]

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Yale Law Clinic Sues for Vets with PTSD

The Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic filed a national class-action lawsuit last week on behalf of two U.S. Army veterans, Stephen Kennedy and Alicia Carson, who allege that they were wrongfully denied honorable discharges as a result of mental health conditions incurred during their military service. The suit alleges that the Army Discharge […]

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Trump Claims Plan Will Cover Pre-existing Illness

President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that the GOP’s new iteration of its healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cover pre-existing conditions for all Americans. Trump, seeming to break from House Republicans’ latest proposal that states could opt out of an Affordable Care Act requirement on covering pre-existing conditions, […]

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Doctor Groups Fear Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Cuts

President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget includes major spending cuts for medical education programs and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, each of which could have negative impacts on doctors, according to organizations like the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Backers of the budget counter that […]

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Analysis: America Overly Depends on Healthcare Jobs

The healthcare industry has been a boon to the U.S. economy, employing one in nine people. President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise to add millions more jobs, but his ability to do so may directly conflict with his other campaign vow to repeal the ACA, according to an op-ed in The New York Times. […]

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