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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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When Patients Mentor Doctors

It was a cold December morning in 2015, and Roger was slowly dying. With end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Roger had been in and out of the hospital for months, each episode worse than the last. Once a functional New Yorker who walked to his favorite corner store with an oxygen tank, Roger had […]

Colorado Moves to Limit Home-Grown Marijuana

DENVER — Colorado is moving toward limiting growing marijuana at home under a bill that sets a max of 12 plants per residential property. A House committee voted 11-2 on March 6 to curb the nation’s most generous allowances for growing pot at home. Colorado currently allows medical pot patients to grow up to 99 […]

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Idaho House to Consider Abortion Law Repeals

BOISE, Idaho — A proposal to reverse two anti-abortion laws in Idaho was headed to the House floor for debate after being approved at the committee level by lawmakers hesitant to loosen the state’s tough anti-abortion stance. Earlier this year, a federal judge agreed to give the Idaho Legislature time to repeal two laws passed […]

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Man Awarded $2.5M from VA Hospital

PHOENIX — A judge awarded $2.5 million to a military veteran who said that his now-terminal cancer would have been curable had the Veterans Administration hospital in Phoenix diagnosed it sooner. U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns ruled on March 6 that a nurse practitioner who found abnormalities in Steven Harold Cooper’s prostate during an examination […]

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 […]

Trump Voters Stand the Most to Lose in Repeal

Americans who swept President Trump to victory — lower-income, older voters in conservative, rural parts of the country — stand to lose the most in federal healthcare aid under a Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a Times analysis of county voting and tax credit data. Among those hit […]

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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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University of Memphis Plans Veterans Care Center on Campus

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The University of Memphis is announcing plans for a new veterans care center on campus. In a news release Wednesday, the university said the outpatient Veterans Care Center will address the mental health needs of veterans, regardless of era, gender, discharge status or service connection. The university says the facility will be […]

Study: Female Participation in Workforce Far from Globally Embraced

As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, a new report finds that only half of women worldwide participate in the workforce, compared to more than three-quarters of men.

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Making Healthcare Unaffordable for Millions

That’s not an ironic headline. Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in their American Health Care Act, the full text of which was published Monday evening. But those reforms are overshadowed by the bill’s stubborn desire to make health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans, and trap millions more […]

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