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Section: Policies
Policies
Bill Would Let Pharmacists “Prescribe” Narcan
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s law to allow access to overdose-reversing medicine without a medical provider’s prescription is missing a key phrase that would actually allow the reform, according to the state’s attorney general’s office and mental health and addiction groups. The Senate, on Monday, and the House, last week, approved passage of a bill adding […]
June 14, 2017
Policies
47 Counties Won’t Have Obamacare
Forty-seven counties are projected to have no Obamacare insurers next year and 1,200 could have only one, according to a new federal report. The map released Tuesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined a county-by-county map of projected insurer participation in Obamacare. The report comes as the Senate is trying to work […]
June 14, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Groups Petition High Court on Travel Ban
A second U.S. Appeals Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, and already healthcare organizations are asking the Supreme Court not to issue a stay of the injunctions against it. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Monday to uphold a freeze on the travel ban, saying […]
June 14, 2017
Policies
Trump to Appoint UNC Doctor to Cancer Institute
The director of the University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center could be headed to Washington, D.C., to lead the National Cancer Institute. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he intends to appoint Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless, 50, to head the federal agency in charge of cancer research. Sharpless, a Greensboro native, has been […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
Key Republican Demands Action to Shore Up Insurance Markets
A senior House Republican on Thursday called for immediate action to stabilize shaky health insurance markets around the country, amid concerns that the GOP could get blamed for rising premiums and dwindling choices next year. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said the government should keep paying billions of dollars in “cost-sharing” […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
Skirmish Unfolding Over Healthcare
The drama over James B. Comey’s testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee isn’t the only excitement playing out on Capitol Hill today. A lower-profile fight involving the House health-care bill and whether it can go over to the Senate is not exactly Comey vs. Trump on charges of Russian election interference. But it is […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
N.E. Journal: Trump’s Making Us Mentally Ill
A new review paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that a growing body of empirical evidence shows how presidential elections can have effects on physical and mental health, and can influence behavior. Specifically, they found evidence that suggests that the campaign and subsequent election of Donald Trump has had a negative […]
June 12, 2017
Policies
Scientist: Trumpcare Presents Threat to Research
A facet of the Republican-led American Health Care Act would “cripple” the advances made in using genomic and big data sets to bolster medicine, the nation’s first federal chief data scientist says. DJ Patil, U.S. chief data scientist in the latter years of Barack Obama’s presidency, wrote on Medium that Trumpcare, as the AHCA is […]
June 7, 2017
Policies
Lawmakers Approve UNLV Med School
CARSON CITY, Nev. — In the works for years, a new medical school is finally going to become a reality at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Nevada Legislature gave final approval Monday night to a bill that includes $25 million in state money to build the UNLV School of Medicine. It’s been a […]
June 7, 2017
Policies
Senate Juggles Competing Healthcare Demands
WASHINGTON — For Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, writing a Republican-only health care bill that can pass the Senate boils down to this question: How do you solve a problem like Dean, Lisa, Patrick, Ted, Rand and Susan? Those are some GOP senators whose clashing demands McConnell, R-Ky., must resolve. Facing solid Democratic opposition to demolishing […]
June 5, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Plan Presents Financial Dilemma
Trump’s “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” and the Proposed American Health Care Policy may Crush Most of the Americans under a Huge Financial Dilemma. Since he took the office, President Mr. Donald Trump has been in a constant effort to completely wipe out any signs of the Obama regime from the United States of America. He […]
June 5, 2017
Policies
Opioid Crisis Devastates Rural Maryland
DENTON, Md. — If there is one hopeful thing about Maryland’s opioid crisis, it’s that no one is denying the obvious. “Very honestly nothing is working,” said Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins. “It’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen.” For rural areas where communities are small and the stigma is large, opioids can be particularly insidious. […]
June 5, 2017
Policies
Poll: Only 8% Think Senate Should Pass House Health Bill
President Donald Trump has called the House-passed health care bill a “great plan,” but a new poll finds that 3 out of 4 people in the United States do not believe it fulfills most of his promises. The poll out Wednesday from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation also found a growing share of the public […]
May 31, 2017
Policies
Trump Budget Threatens Children’s Health
The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has been a vital part of America’s health care safety net since its creation in the 1990s. Last year, it provided coverage for almost 9 million children. CHIP is traditionally considered a bipartisan success story and has played a critical role—together with Medicaid and the private market reforms in […]
May 31, 2017
Policies
Senate Staffers Will Draft Healthcare Bill
Maybe, in the end, the safest stance for beleaguered House Republicans would be emulate the aggressive truth-defying approach of Trump himself: “What health care bill?” “That means the House has to come back with a new bill and vote again”, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from NY, said Wednesday. Additionally the bill would […]
May 30, 2017
Policies
Trump Tweet Contradicts His Budget
President Trump urged spending more on health care, in a tweet Sunday night — to “make it the best anywhere” — even as his administration’s budget proposal last week called for broad cuts to health programs, including Medicaid, public health, and medical research funding. It’s unclear what, if anything, Trump’s tweet means for his administration’s […]
May 30, 2017
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9 Healthcare Issues in Trump Budget
President Donald Trump’s first full budget proposal will include $3.6 trillion in spending cuts to balance the budget in the next decade. Although the full $4.1 trillion budget plan, titled “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” will be released Tuesday, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney briefed White House reporters Monday on the […]
May 24, 2017
Policies
GOP Rallies Behind Plan to End Care for Poor
On Tuesday, the White House is expected to roll out a budget that includes hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicaid — proposing cuts on top of the ones included in the Trumpcare bill that passed the House a few weeks ago. Trump’s budget blueprint seeks to dismantle the social safety net in dramatic ways. When it […]
May 24, 2017
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