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Section: Policies
Policies
“Pivotal Player” at HHS Promoted Gay “Conversion”
Shannon Royce, who has reportedly emerged “as a pivotal player” at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), previously suggested that so-called conversion therapy was an antidote to marriage equality and worked for anti-LGBTQ hate groups that have promoted the dangerous and widely discredited practice. Politico reported on January 22 that Royce, the director […]
January 24, 2018
Policies
Study: Obamacare Helps Poor Families the Most
Poor families have benefited the most from Obamacare, spending less on both out-of-pocket care and health insurance premiums, a new study shows. On the other hand, higher-income families have seen their out-of-pocket costs decline but their premiums increase, the researchers found. Read More
January 24, 2018
Policies
Medicaid Changes May Lead More States to Extend Care
In an ironic twist, the Trump administration’s embrace of work requirements for low-income people on Medicaid is prompting lawmakers in some conservative states to resurrect plans to expand health care for the poor. Trump’s move has been widely criticized as threatening the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. But if states follow through, more Americans could […]
January 24, 2018
Policies
How Would Hospitals Swamped by Flu Handle a Pandemic
A tsunami of sick people has swamped hospitals in many parts of the country in recent weeks as a severe flu season has taken hold. In Rhode Island, hospitals diverted ambulances for a period because they were overcome with patients. In San Diego, a hospital erected a tent outside its emergency room to manage an […]
January 17, 2018
Policies
Number of Americans Without Insurance Grew in 2017
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans without health coverage, which declined for years after passage of the Affordable Care Act, shot up in President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to data from a new national survey. At the end of 2017, 12.2 percent of U.S. adults lacked health insurance, up from 10.9 percent […]
January 17, 2018
Policies
Court to Review Ruling Barring Medical Marijuana on Campuses
PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court’s ruling that Arizona colleges and universities can prohibit medical marijuana on campuses, but the state Legislature can’t make it a crime. The medical marijuana law approved by Arizona voters in 2010 allowed cardholders to possess small amounts of marijuana but it prohibited […]
January 16, 2018
Policies
Trump Signs Order to Improve Mental Health Care for Vets
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday afternoon paving the way for servicemembers to be enrolled automatically with the Department of Veterans Affairs for mental health care when they leave the military – an attempt to eliminate barriers for transitioning troops to get treatment during their first year after service. The order, titled “Supporting […]
January 16, 2018
Policies
Book: To Avoid “Obese” BMI, Trump Exaggerates Height
A new book claims that President Trump has been lying about his height in order to avoid being categorized as obese. “An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese), he personally found healthcare and […]
January 11, 2018
Policies
Trump to Act on Medicaid Work Rules
The Trump administration is preparing to release guidelines soon for requiring Medicaid recipients to work, according to sources familiar with the plans, a major shift in the 50-year-old program. The guidelines will set the conditions for allowing states to add work requirements to their Medicaid programs for the first time, putting a conservative twist on […]
January 11, 2018
Policies
Experts: Social Media Contacts Could Hold Key to Stopping Disease Spread
Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak in its tracks, researchers said Wednesday. Such people would be “central” in their social networks, and thus likelier to spread disease-causing germs from one group to another. Assuming there is an outbreak, and not enough […]
January 8, 2018
Policies
Trump Rule Could Let More People Drop Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration proposed a rule on Thursday to allow Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses to buy health insurance that does not comply with all Obamacare requirements in an effort to unwind the 2010 healthcare law. The rule, put forward by the Department of Labor, would allow individuals […]
January 8, 2018
Policies
Snopes: Hurricane Maria and the IV Bag Shortage in U.S.
On 28 December 2017, a tweet from a man in California focused attention on one of less-reported aftereffects of the damage caused by the massive Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017. Ben Boyer’s post criticized the Trump administration’s response to the disaster while describing a recent hospital visit: My wife’s nurse […]
January 8, 2018
Policies
Recreational Market Clouds Picture for California Medical Marijuana
LOS ANGELES — When Elias Zaldivar was an 18-year-old college freshman and decided he was in the market for marijuana, he knew just how to get it, and it didn’t involve canvassing the corridors of his campus in search of that stoned-out dude who sold pot from his dorm room. Instead, he went straight to […]
January 3, 2018
Policies
WHO: Too Much Video Gaming? It’s an Illness
It was only a matter of time before health officials diagnosed video game characters such as Mario and Super Mario as addictive, as the World Health Organization basically will do when it adds “gaming disorder” to its disease list next year. The decision is cause for celebration in mental-health circles, with La Crosse therapist Jeff […]
January 3, 2018
Policies
“Food Swamps” Pose Threats to Health
The term “food desert” conjures the image of a forlorn citizen, wandering through a barren landscape for miles and miles (or, by definition, for more than a mile) to reach the nearest fresh-food market. Populating food deserts with grocery stores is a favored cause among nutrition advocates, but the concept became controversial after some recent […]
January 3, 2018
Policies
Tax on Medical Devices Resumes
The device industry has long pushed for repeal of the excise tax, recruiting unconventional allies including Democratic lawmakers from states with big industry in Massachusetts and Minnesota. The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the industry’s main trade association, has argued the tax hurts research and development and cost 29,000 medtech jobs during the three years […]
January 3, 2018
Policies
Top Health Care Stories of 2017
This past year has been chaotic, especially in the world of health care. From multiple attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with the American Health Care Act, to the expanding opioid epidemic, experts from both sides of the political aisle had their opinions on these controversial health topics: Read More
January 3, 2018
Policies
The Price of Hope: $750,000
It would have been just another midsummer day of activities and camaraderie at church camp, except that Colin English hadn’t felt right since he rolled out of his bunk bed. His legs had felt weak, and at first he couldn’t move them. Only with the help of campmates did the 12-year-old make his way to […]
December 21, 2017
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