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Section: Policies
Policies
Congress Rejects Cuts for Health Research
Back in March, when President Trump released the first draft of his budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, he asked lawmakers for deep cuts to one of their favorite institutions, the National Institutes of Health — part of a broad reordering of priorities, away from science and social spending, toward defense and border security. […]
September 18, 2017
Policies
Lawmakers Strike Deal on Children’s Insurance
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the top Democrat on the panel announced on Tuesday night that they had reached agreement on a plan to prevent the imminent exhaustion of federal funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The current appropriation runs out at the end of this month, and many states will […]
September 18, 2017
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Feds Rewriting Rule on Health Care for Transgendered
LOS ANGELES — Jyn Dao is scared. His bottom surgery — needed to realign the female genitalia he was born with to his male identity — is scheduled. But it’s not happening until January. And like many trans men and women, he’s afraid President Trump will soon revoke protections in federal law that ensure his […]
September 13, 2017
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Industry Groups Press Congress on Payments
Payers and ACA supporters view CSR payments as critical to stabilizing the ACA market. Without those payments, insurance companies will flee the individual insurance market or ask for large premium increases. Already, the average individual insurance premiums are expected to increase by about 20% next year. Without those subsidies, the Congressional Budget Office predicted ACA premiums would skyrocket another 20%. […]
September 13, 2017
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Lawmakers Seek Bipartisan Fix for Obamacare
In Bismarck, North Dakota Wednesday night, President Donald Trump called on supporters to press Congress on health care. “You have to make sure that they do what they have to do,” said Trump. “And believe me, we haven’t given up on healthcare. We haven’t given up on healthcare. We never give up.” Read More
September 11, 2017
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Colorado Schools Staff Up for Anti-Marijuana Effort
DENVER — Colorado has given 42 school districts and charter schools a combined $9.2 million to hire people and create programs to keep marijuana out of the hands of students. The Denver Post reports the money is going to schools located near legal pot shops and is funded by proceeds from marijuana sales. Districts are […]
September 6, 2017
Policies
Millions with Private Insurance Brace for Rising Premiums
WASHINGTON — Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium increases, and their frustration is boiling over. Some are expecting premiums for 2018 to rival a mortgage payment. What they pay is tied to the price […]
September 6, 2017
Policies
States Provide Bipartisan Models for Saving Obamacare
With interest growing among congressional Republicans and Democrats in modifying the Affordable Care Act to bolster the nation’s health insurance markets, states are emerging as potential models for bipartisan cooperation. The political battling over the 2010 healthcare law, widely known as Obamacare, may not be over, especially with President Trump continuing to undermine the law. […]
September 5, 2017
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Ohio Schools Fear Loss of Funds over Marijuana Research
When Ohio House Bill 523 was passed, legalizing medical marijuana in Ohio, part of the law left many wondering who would test the marijuana so patients could use it by the program’s start date of September 2018. The law required an Ohio public higher-education institution to carry out the task of testing the product that […]
August 30, 2017
Policies
Study Confirms Abstinence Only Ed Doesn’t Work
With a man like Donald Trump serving as President of the United States, it should come as no surprise that major policy decisions are often turned into spectacles ripe with suspense or shock value (see: the build-up to his decision to leave the Paris climate accord and his surprise Twitter storm banning transgender men and […]
August 28, 2017
Policies
McConnell’s State Loses Bigtime Under Repeal
Tricia Petrucci hasn’t quite reached the point where she regrets her vote for President Donald Trump. It would be understandable if she did, because Trump — and her senator, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — are trying to curb the medical services that sustain her 11-year-old stepson, who battles severe cerebral palsy. She is […]
August 28, 2017
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Iraq Amputee Senator Blasts Transgender Ban
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) has assessed the problem with President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender servicemen and women in a sharply clarifying way. “When I was bleeding to death in my Black Hawk helicopter after I was shot down, I didn’t care if the American troops risking their lives to help save me were gay, […]
August 28, 2017
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5 State Commissioners to Testify on Healthcare Bill
Five state insurance commissioners will testify in front of the Senate Health Committee next month on ways to stabilize ObamaCare exchanges. Commissioners from Tennessee, Washington, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Oklahoma will testify at the Sept. 6 hearing. Five Democratic and Republican governors will testify Sept. 7. Read More
August 28, 2017
Policies
Plan to Harm Obamacare Could Backfire
Don’t tell President Trump, but cutting off extra Obamacare subsidies to insurers could actually improve – not ignite – the very insurance marketplaces he wants to undermine. Weirdly enough, slightly more people – not fewer — could receive health insurance by 2020 were the president to terminate the controversial cost-sharing payments, otherwise known as CSRs, […]
August 24, 2017
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Poll: Americans Want Bipartisan Healthcare
Now that the great Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and replace debate has seemingly ended in Congress, we’ve seen movement by members of Congress towards a bipartisan approach to healthcare reform, starting with discussions on how to improve the current law. The new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for August from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows […]
August 16, 2017
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Oregon Adopts Protections for Abortion, Reproductive Health
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Tuesday signed what activists describe as the most far-reaching law in the land to solidify access to abortion and subsidized birth control, bucking efforts in Washington to limit reproductive health coverage. The Reproductive Health Equity Act requires insurers to cover abortions at no cost to the patient, enshrining the right to […]
August 16, 2017
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CBO: If Subsidies End, Premiums and Deficit Will Soar
WASHINGTON — Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies for the benefit of low-income people, the Congressional Budget […]
August 16, 2017
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Report: VA Office Denies 90% of Gulf War Claims
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Veterans Affairs office in New Mexico during the 2015 fiscal year denied more than 90 percent of benefit claims related to Gulf War illnesses, marking the ninth-lowest approval rating among VA sites nationwide, according to a federal report. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Albuquerque office denied 592 of 640 Gulf […]
August 14, 2017
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