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Conservatives Amp Up Healthcare Fight

Conservative Republican lawmakers and political groups blasted President Trump’s health care plan Sunday, insisting they wouldn’t support it without major changes. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a constant critic of the proposal, predicted the plan would never get through Congress. “There’s enough conservatives that do not want ‘Obamacare lite,’” Paul said on ABC’s “This Week.” Read […]

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Text of CBO Official Report: AHCA Cost Estimate

The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2017 directed the House Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce to develop legislation to reduce the deficit. The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have produced an estimate of the budgetary effects of the American Health […]

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CBO: 24M More Americans Out Under “Trumpcare”

The Congressional Budget Office on Monday estimated that as many as 24 million more people would be uninsured and that the federal budget deficit would shrink by more than $300 billion over the next decade under the Republican healthcare bill. The findings came in a much-anticipated report detailing the possible effects of the American Health […]

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VA Secretary Wants to Extend Choice Program

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says Congress needs to act quickly to extend a program aimed at widening veterans’ access to private-sector health care, pointing to a growing demand for medical treatment outside the Department of Veterans Affairs. Shulkin also pledged additional efforts by his agency to combat suicide, saying he wanted to […]

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Medical Providers Oppose GOP Health Plan

The top U.S. doctors’ organization and several hospital groups came out strongly on Wednesday against a Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul America’s healthcare system, as Democrats mounted a fierce battle to thwart the bill. Two House of Representatives committees debated the plan late into the night, two days after the proposals […]

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High Anxiety: Polls Show Increase Since Election

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — We have become a stressed and anxious nation, increasingly so since the election of Donald Trump as president. Concerns about immigration restrictions, health care, past sexual trauma and world peace rose even before Trump was elected and have continued since his inauguration, say mental health caregivers in Connecticut. The strain is […]

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GOP Plans Massive Changes to Medicaid

The text of the long-awaited Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was released Monday evening and included tax credits to help people buy coverage based somewhat on income, instead of just on age as previous drafts obtained by Politico had suggested. It also eliminates the cap on employer-sponsored health insurance […]

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Conservatives Push Back on GOP Health Plan

WASHINGTON — A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders began trying to sell the legislation as the long-promised GOP cure for “Obamacare.” “We’re going to do something that’s great and I’m proud to support […]

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Policies Put Women at Risk

Donald Trump’s sexual and reproductive health policy changes threaten women in the USA and across the world, warns an expert in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. “Much progress has been made in the use of more effective contraception and in the reduction of unintended pregnancies”, explains Professor Daniel Grossman from the […]

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Drug Trump Touted Costs $300,000 a Year

President Donald Trump told Congress on Tuesday that more needs to be done to bring down “artificially high” prices for prescription drugs, while at the same time praising a drug that turns out to cost $300,000 per year. During the televised address, Trump acknowledged in the audience Megan Crowley, a college student who has Pompe […]

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Reform Could Offer Opportunity in Digital Healthcare

The next few years are likely to see a major attempt to use market mechanisms to reduce the cost of U. S. healthcare. Healthcare costs are rising again, and Republican campaign promises will put huge pressure on the federal budget. Republicans prefer market based solutions to problems, and they harshly criticize the parts of Obamacare […]

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GOP Under Pressure to Revamp Health Plan

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier. With the GOP-controlled Congress starting its third month of work on […]

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