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Section: Policies
Policies
The Pandemic We Won’t Be Able to Stop
Health officials warn while they are convinced a deadly pandemic is coming, they still have no idea what it will be. However, experts believe the disease or virus is likely to be respiratory, as not enough research is being put into this area and respiratory issues are difficult to spot once they have begun spreading. […]
May 16, 2018
Policies
200-plus Members of Congress: Don’t Mess with Family Planning
More than 200 members of the U.S. Congress on Tuesday signed letters sent to Alex Azar, head of President Trump’s virulently anti-choice Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), voicing opposition to a so-called domestic gag rule that would place restrictions on federal family planning funding. Both letters refer to a potential “domestic gag rule” championed […]
May 16, 2018
Policies
VA Employees Indicted for Bribery
Three employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs were indicted on charges of accepting bribes from a pharmaceutical company called MiMedx Group. This is a story about bribery, SEC stock fraud, and selling baby making byproducts to the Department of Veterans Affairs that are not reportedly as effective at healing as promised. The three VA […]
May 14, 2018
Policies
House Panel OKs Plan to Expand VA Private Care
A House committee approved a wide-ranging plan Tuesday to give veterans more freedom to see doctors outside the Veterans Affairs health system and fix a budget crisis in its troubled Choice private-sector program, a major step toward fulfilling President Donald Trump’s promise to expand private care options. The $51 billion plan includes $5.2 billion to […]
May 9, 2018
Policies
Flies Infest VA Operating Rooms
An undercover reporter wearing a hidden camera at West Lost Angeles VA found a multi-year fly infestation in operating rooms at the facility. Over 80 surgeries were canceled as a result. Investigative reporter David Goldstein wore a hidden camera during his three-month investigation into conditions at the facility’s conditions. He found hundreds of flytraps all […]
May 7, 2018
Policies
Rule Would Make Hospitals Post Prices Online
Hospitals may soon have to post their standard prices for patients online, under a proposed rule unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration. Also, the administration is seeking comments on how to stop so-called surprise billing — when patients are charged after unknowingly being seen by out-of-network providers — and how to give patients better information […]
May 2, 2018
Disparities
Navajo Say the Trump Shift on Healthcare Violates Treaties
The Trump administration says Native Americans might need to get a job to keep their health care. But Navajo leaders say that policy defies their 150-year-old treaty rights. Three states have introduced a rule — and several more plan to — that says a person has to work or to be in school to receive […]
May 2, 2018
Policies
Trump Wants to Roll Back Transgender, Native Protections
The Trump administration has plans to reverse Obama-era health care rules that currently protect transgender individuals from discrimination and decades-old exemptions that shelter Native Americans from certain burdensome federal health requirements. Why it matters: These health moves would target two of the nation’s most underrepresented and vulnerable communities. The administration is planning to end a rule […]
April 25, 2018
Policies
Judge Rules Against HHS on Ending Teen Pregnancy Program
A federal judge in D.C. ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s cut to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program were unlawful. Last summer, the administration notified 81 organizations that their five-year grants through the program would end in 2018, rather than in 2020, prompting multiple lawsuits. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled in one of those cases […]
April 23, 2018
Policies
Fort Drum Area Models Private Care for Veterans
The thought of privatizing their government health care worries many veterans. John Lambert, chairman of the North Country Veterans Advisory Committee, discussed a distressing report during the organization’s April 5 meeting. Prepared by the Rand Corps., the study indicates that physicians not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are not as familiar with […]
April 18, 2018
Policies
Trade Group: Short-Term Plan’s Impact Underestimated
The Trump Administration has underestimated the impact short-term limited duration insurance plans would have on the Affordable Care Act market, according to a study commissioned by the Associated for Community Affiliated Plans. While the White House projected that its short-term plans would decrease enrollment in Healthcare.gov by 100,000 to 200,000 ACA consumers in 2019, the […]
April 18, 2018
Policies
Blue States Fight Dismantling of ACA
Despite attempts by the Trump administration and Republican-controlled Congress to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, blue states are fighting back to prop up the 2010 law. New Jersey is nearly set to implement its own individual mandate for health care coverage after congress rolled back the requirement at the federal level. The New Jersey Health […]
April 18, 2018
Disparities
Poll: Mayors Doubt City Policy Can Ease Health Disparities
Nearly one-third of mayors believe that city policies won’t lessen health disparities, according to new research from Drexel University. The study surveyed mayors and health commissioners in the 785 American cities with a population of over 50,000. The survey asked respondents to share their opinions on the existence of health disparities in their cities, which […]
April 11, 2018
Policies
New Rules Chip Away at Obamacare
The Trump administration issued a ton of regulatory changes Monday that chip away at the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Moving forward, states will have more flexibility to set their own standards and people will be given new exemptions to avoid the health care law’s individual mandate penalty. The 523-page regulation is one that comes out […]
April 11, 2018
Policies
Democratic Attorneys General Fight Texas ACA Suit
SACRAMENTO, Calif.  — Sixteen Democratic attorneys general are pushing back against a Texas lawsuit aimed at striking down former President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led his state, 14 others and the District of Columbia in filing a motion to intervene in the Texas case and defend the law, suggesting […]
April 11, 2018
Policies
Massachusetts Begins Accepting Cannabis Bids
BOSTON — Massachusetts is taking another step on the road toward commercial sales of recreational marijuana, which are expected to begin on July 1. On Monday, April 2, the Cannabis Control Commission began accepting applications for “priority certification” of marijuana businesses. Operators of medical marijuana dispensaries seeking to expand into commercial sales are eligible for […]
April 9, 2018
Policies
New Director Named for Office Testing Medicare Changes
The Trump administration on Friday announced a new director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), an office that could be at the center of efforts to shake up and reform the health system. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma told staff in an email that Adam Boehler, the former […]
April 9, 2018
Policies
Proposed Regulations Could Penalize Immigrants
The latest leaks in Washington indicate that the Trump administration remains serious about discouraging documented immigrants and their children from using federally funded health and nutrition programs – a policy change that could have wide-ranging implications for the Philadelphia School District and its students. “What they’re saying is that they’re going to greatly broaden the […]
April 9, 2018
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