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Section: Policies
Policies
Democrats Plan to Turn Obamacare Issue Against G.O.P.
The voter anger over healthcare that once propelled Republicans to the majority in the House and Senate is now buoying Democrats’ hopes for the midterm elections. When Democrats passed and rolled out Obamacare, voters shouted down lawmakers at town halls and rallied in huge demonstrations to protest changes in coverage, rising premiums, and the loss […]
September 26, 2018
Policies
Former U.N. Chief Calls U.S. Healthcare System ‘Morally Wrong’
The former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as politically and morally wrong, and urged American leaders to enact publicly financed healthcare as a “human right”. Ban made the comments in an exclusive interview with the Guardian in New York, as part of his work with The Elders, […]
September 26, 2018
Policies
Advocates Rip Proposal to Penalize Immigrants Using Benefits
The Trump administration’s proposal to expand public charge designations to Medicaid and Medicare Part D subsidies and other benefits will jeopardize the healthcare access of millions of legal residents, critics charge. The 447-page proposed rule, which was unveiled Saturday by the Department of Homeland Security, would create “a strong disincentive to seek care,” said Bruce […]
September 24, 2018
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17 Health Care Systems Launch Project for Underserved
Seventeen health systems, encompassing 280 hospitals—5 percent of the hospitals in the country—have come together to figure out financially sustainable solutions to the problem of how to improve health care for underserved people and their families. Read More
September 17, 2018
Policies
HIV Research Yields Dividends Across Medical Fields
Since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States 37 years ago, the National Institutes of Health has invested more than $69 billion in the understanding, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Beyond the development of life-saving medications and innovative prevention modalities, such research has led to numerous advances outside the HIV field, […]
September 17, 2018
Policies
Food Safety Scares Up in 2018
Matt Arteaga, 51, is one of about 500 people who got sick this summer in an outbreak linked to McDonald’s salads. The cause was a parasite, cyclospora. Arteaga fell ill on a Thursday afternoon in June. He was in his office in Danville, Ill., when he says the symptoms came on quickly. “The chills, and […]
September 17, 2018
Policies
Timeline: Trump’s Efforts to Dismantle Obamacare
The Republican-led U.S. Congress has repeatedly tried and failed to repeal and replace Obamacare. Since taking office in 2017, they have had an ally in President Trump, whose administration has attempted to dismantle the health care law, one step at a time. Read More
September 12, 2018
Policies
2.1M People Could Lose Care If Medicaid Work Rules Expand
As the Trump administration barrels forward on Medicaid work requirements, new studies show the policy could remove millions from the program if implemented across the country. In two recent studies highlighted by JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that, if implemented nationally, work requirements as written would not save a significant amount of money. But if […]
September 12, 2018
Policies
Palestinians: U.S. Cuts Will Have Dire Effect on Healthcare
The director of an East Jerusalem hospital said Sunday that a US decision to cut funding to hospitals serving the Palestinians will have a “severe effect.” Bassem Abu Libdeh, of the Makassed hospital, said that the US currently covers 40 percent of costs in six East Jerusalem hospitals that provide care for Palestinians from the […]
September 10, 2018
Policies
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Medicare Isn’t Stronger
WASHINGTON — Eager to dismiss his critics, President Donald Trump is fabricating the circumstances regarding jobs, the economy and the social safety net. He insists that Social Security and Medicare are becoming stronger under his watch when the most recent government report shows the financial condition of both programs worsening. On the economy, his claims […]
September 10, 2018
Policies
Yale Psychiatrist: Claims about Trump’s Mental Health No Surprise
A Yale psychiatrist believes the anonymous op-ed by a “senior administration official” published by The New York Times exposes President Donald Trump’s “psychological symptoms” relating to the “mental challenges” that make him a “dangerous” man. Dr. Bandy Lee, assistant clinical professor in law and psychiatry and violence expert at the Yale School of Medicine, published […]
September 10, 2018
Policies
Maryland County Giving Out Condoms at Schools
When high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, go back to school Tuesday after summer vacation, some of them will have one extra resource available to them: condoms. Record rates of sexually transmitted diseases around the country, as well as in the county, have alarmed local officials, who say distributing condoms in schools is one […]
September 5, 2018
Policies
‘Chief Wahoo’ Activist Sentenced for Embezzling Native American Funds
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A prominent activist known for his opposition to the Cleveland Indians’ Chief Wahoo mascot was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison and four months of house arrest for stealing more than $77,000 in federal grant money meant to benefit Native Americans in Northeast Ohio. Read More
September 5, 2018
Policies
GOP Candidates Recast Their Records on Pre-Existing Conditions
Josh Hawley, the Republican Senate candidate in Missouri, says he is all about making sure anybody can get health insurance, regardless of their medical status: “We need to cover pre-existing conditions,” he said earlier this summer. But Hawley, who is currently Missouri’s attorney general, is one of the 20 state officials who has signed onto […]
September 5, 2018
Policies
Kamala Harris: Bill Addresses Racial Disparities in Maternal Deaths
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and 13 other Democratic senators introduced legislation last week aimed at addressing racial disparities in rates of maternal deaths across the United States. Read More
September 3, 2018
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V.A. Secretary Vows Not to Privatize Agency
MINNEAPOLIS | The new secretary of veterans affairs pledged to the American Legion on Wednesday that he won’t privatize his agency’s health-care services even as it increases options for veterans to seek care in the private sector. Robert Wilkie, who was sworn in last month, also pledged better customer service as a result of the […]
September 3, 2018
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Report: Obamacare Enrollment Isn’t Dropping
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 29, 2018 — Health insurance coverage rates have held steady in the United States, despite continued commotion over the future of the Affordable Care Act, a new government report shows. About 28.3 million Americans were uninsured during the first quarter of 2018 — not significantly different than 2017, and 20.3 million fewer than […]
September 3, 2018
Policies
Court Nominee signals skepticism over Obamacare Repeal Efforts
If Republicans are hoping Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will help them knock down Obamacare in the courts, they might be in for a disappointment. Kavanaugh has signaled in private meetings with Senate Democrats that he is skeptical of some of the legal claims being asserted in the latest GOP-led effort to overturn the Affordable […]
September 3, 2018
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