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Section: Policies
Policies
Healthcare: Employment Bonanza and Cost Crisis
In many ways, the healthcare industry has been a great friend to the U.S. economy. Its plentiful jobs helped lift the country out of the Great Recession and, partly due to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it now employs 1 in 9 Americans—up from 1 in 12 in 2000. As President Donald Trump seeks to […]
April 26, 2017
Policies
Trump Signs Healthcare Bill Vets
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a bill April 19 to temporarily extend a program that lets some veterans seek medical care in the private sector, part of an effort by the president to deliver on a campaign promise. The extension will give Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin time to develop a more comprehensive plan […]
April 24, 2017
Policies
Health Insurers Respond to Threat
President Donald Trump is trying to bring the Democrats to their knees with respect to the Affordable Care Act through devious means. He has recently issued threats to health insurers, suggesting that his government would not reimburse the companies for their coverage of low-income individuals. Meanwhile, a representative body of the health insurers has sent […]
April 19, 2017
Policies
Foes of Assisted-Suicide Bill Rally in Nevada
CARSON CITY, Nev. — Frustrated after Democratic lawmakers cancelled debate for the second time in a week, patients and doctors rallied April 12 at the Nevada Legislature against a proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide. University of Nevada, Reno medical professor Kirk Bronander and Republican Sen. Joseph Hardy of Boulder City were among the physicians who […]
April 17, 2017
Policies
Md. Black Lawmakers Seek Session on Pot
BALTIMORE — Black lawmakers in Maryland have called for a special session of the state legislature, after a bill designed to create diversity ownership in the state’s developing medical marijuana industry failed to pass in the regular session’s chaotic closing minutes this week. Del. Cheryl Glenn, a Baltimore Democrat who chairs the Legislative Black Caucus […]
April 17, 2017
Policies
President Signs Bill Targeting Planned Parenthood
President Trump on Thursday signed a bill to nix an Obama-era rule that blocked states from defunding healthcare providers for political reasons. The bill, which Democrats say is really an effort to defund Planned Parenthood, passed the Senate last month after Vice President Pence had to cast a tie-breaking vote. Trump signed the measure behind […]
April 17, 2017
Policies
Administration Issues Final ACA Rules
The Trump administration on Thursday issued a final rule that will shorten the Obamacare enrollment period and give insurers more of what they say they need in the individual insurance market, likely making it harder for some consumers to purchase insurance, healthcare experts said. It could also raise out-of-pocket medical expenses, the experts said, because […]
April 17, 2017
Policies
Trump May Halt Pay to Force Democrats’ Hand
U.S. President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he might consider withholding billions of dollars of Obamacare payments to health insurers to force Democrats back to the negotiating table on healthcare. Insurers and major medical groups have warned that not funding the payments, called cost-sharing reduction subsidies, which help cover out-of-pocket […]
April 17, 2017
Policies
HSAs Will be Big in Trump Era
Although the American Health Care Act’s defeat has led to uncertainty on the specifics of healthcare reform, there is relative consensus in one area: the use of health savings accounts. House Republican leaders and the White House have already restarted their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Republicans know any transformation will need to […]
April 12, 2017
Policies
Universal Care Faction Seizes the Day
It was a cold, misty, gray, early spring day in Albany, New York – the kind of bone-chilling, turn-up-the-heat weather that encourages residents to flee to Florida. But 500 New Yorkers were still out on the sidewalk lobbying for healthcare reform that has long seemed like a pipe dream: government-provided universal health insurance. “I wanna […]
April 12, 2017
Policies
Obamacare Costs Still Problematic
Far from the national debate about health insurance swirling in the halls of government and corporate boardrooms, Bob Isaacson works in his office in Holdrege, Nebraska, to help people get health plans they can afford. And it’s getting harder every year. Seven years since President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, forever tied to […]
April 10, 2017
Policies
FDA Nominee: I Would Challenge Trump on Vaccines
Washington – Scott Gottlieb, a Westport doctor, on Wednesday calmly defused tough questions from Democrats during the confirmation hearing on his nomination to head the Food and Drug Administration, promising to safeguard the agency’s rigorous review of drugs and medical devices. He also said he would keep his independence from the White House and oppose […]
April 10, 2017
Policies
Suit Seeks to Ban Pesticide Linked to Autism
Three environmental groups asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to order the EPA to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. EarthJustice, which is representing the Pesticide Action Network and the Natural Resources Defense Council, was responding to the EPA’s recent announcement that it would not be following through on its own decision to ban the pesticide, […]
April 10, 2017
Policies
Golfing Increases Paul’s Optimism on Healthcare
Despite threats from some of his top advisers and even from President Trump himself that he would try to defeat some leading congressional conservatives in primaries, the president had a golf outing with Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) Sunday that brightened hopes that the rift between the administration and congressional conservatives could be healed — and […]
April 5, 2017
Policies
Bill Would Expand Medicare Telehealth
Senate lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at expanding telehealth services for Medicare patients. Under the Telehealth Innovation and Improvement Act, eligible hospitals would test telehealth services through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. CMMI would evaluate the services for cost, effectiveness and quality of care, and those that past muster would be […]
April 5, 2017
Policies
Price Bought Drug Stock, Aided Firm
On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms’ profits and driven down their share prices, records obtained by […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Plan, Patients in Limbo
Under the crisp midday sun in the hills of rural West Virginia, the Myers family pile out of their tired, red pick-up truck in the car park of the Cabin Creek Health Centre. “A couple of them had the flu and this one had an allergic reaction and we can’t figure out what it is […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Bill Tells Colleges to Stock Abortive Pills
A new bill might allow students at California’s public universities and colleges to receive medical abortion pills at student health centers, NBC4’s media partner KPCC reports. The bill — currently in the California legislature — would require all public universities and community colleges in the state to provide the pregnancy-ending pills. A medical abortion ends […]
March 29, 2017
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