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Section: Policies
Policies
Hiring Freeze Could Affect Indian Care
After a temporary federal hiring freeze, concerns have arisen over filling jobs at long-understaffed Native American health care facilities, although an official exemption for some hiring could be on the way. “Any freeze in hiring for Indian initiatives, whether temporary or permanent, threatens to make the challenges facing Indian Country worse,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., […]
February 6, 2017
Policies
Va. Senate OKs Wider Use of Marijuana Oil
RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate has approved a bill expanding the number of ailments that can be treated with two derivatives of the marijuana plant. The chamber voted January 26 on the measure that allows people with cancer, HIV, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis and a number of other diseases to access cannabidiol oil or […]
February 1, 2017
Policies
Trump Already Ruining Healthcare, Obama Chief Warns
WASHINGTON ― Andy Slavitt helped save Obamacare once already. He’s hoping he can do it again. Until Inauguration Day, Slavitt had been acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services since March 2015. That agency oversees the two health programs in its name along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program and the Affordable […]
February 1, 2017
Policies
Panel Sets Aside Rule to Forward HHS, Treasury Picks
The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday approved President Trump’s picks for Health and Treasury secretaries after Republicans decided to suspend the panel’s rules and vote without any Democrats present. The rule they suspended had required at least one Democrat to be present for votes. It was the latest escalation in partisan tensions in the new […]
February 1, 2017
Policies
Buzzwords: What ‘Repeal and Replace’ Means
President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers have yet to come up with a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. But in the meantime, there’s already a complicated vocabulary to describe the process and its goals. The terminology can be difficult to follow, starting with the now-ubiquitous phrase “repeal and replace.” Adding to […]
January 30, 2017
Policies
Most Doctors Who Voted for Trump Like Obamacare
Only 37.9% of doctors who reported voting for Donald Trump are in favor of completely repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), widely referred to as Obamacare, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The revelation of serious misgivings by the people on the front lines of healthcare, published yesterday in […]
January 30, 2017
Policies
GOP Doesn’t Have a ACA Plan
The history of the development of the Republican alternative to Obamacare since the beginning of the health-care debate, in 2009, has been an endless loop of loud promises that a full plan will be announced soon, followed by quiet admissions that it will not. Seventeen days ago, Donald Trump promised a vote to repeal the […]
January 30, 2017
Policies
Data Suggest VA Care Will Be Insufficient
New data compiled in the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) 2016 annual survey indicates that on its own, the Department of Veterans Affairs cannot sufficiently treat Post-9/11 injured service members. In one of the largest datasets collected on this generation of wounded service members, the survey suggests that now more than ever, veteran service organizations are […]
January 25, 2017
Policies
HHS Pick Belongs to Fringe Medical Group
Last week, the Senate Health Committee grilled Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on his plan to dismantle Obamacare and his extensive trading in medical stocks. But when senators on the finance committee question him on Tuesday before voting on his nomination, they […]
January 25, 2017
Policies
Trump Restores NGO Gag Rule on Abortion
President Donald Trump reinstated — and massively expanded — an executive order Monday barring US foreign aid from going to any nongovernmental organization (NGO) that either provides abortion services, or even discusses abortion with its patients as an option for family planning. Trump has promised to take sweeping actions against abortion, including appointing Supreme Court […]
January 25, 2017
Policies
2 Republicans Suggest Plan for States to Keep Obamacare
Two Republican senators said on Monday that U.S. states should be allowed to stay in the Obamacare medical insurance program if they like, with one also saying she was confused by President Donald Trump’s broad but unspecific executive order targeting the program. Trump and congressional Republicans campaigned on a promise to dismantle Obamacare, and they […]
January 25, 2017
Policies
Will Healthcare for Veterans Improve?
Last week, President-elect Donald Trump surprised many by tapping David Shulkin, an Obama administration official, as his nominee for secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Shulkin, a New York-area physician, and author, who is currently a VA undersecretary, is known for significantly improving care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York as […]
January 23, 2017
Policies
Trump Could Trigger Push for Drug Imports
President-elect Donald Trump’s vows to bring down drug prices and give consumers more options could give new momentum to the long fight to allow importations of prescription drugs into the U.S. Proponents of allowing U.S. residents to buy prescription drugs from other countries hope that having a supporter of the proposal in the White House […]
January 23, 2017
Policies
Poll: 4 in 10 List Healthcare Fix as Top Concern
WASHINGTON — Sylvia Douglas twice voted for President Barack Obama and last year cast a ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton. Yet when it comes to “Obamacare,” she now sounds like President-elect Donald Trump. This makes her chuckle amid the serious choices she faces every month between groceries, electricity and paying a health insurance bill that […]
January 23, 2017
Policies
March Highlights Health Concerns Under Trump
WASHINGTON — Among the masses that descended on the nation’s capital Saturday for the Women’s March was Katie MacMillan, a fourth-year medical student. “This isn’t all about ‘Not-Trump,’” said MacMillan, referring to Donald Trump, who was sworn in as the 45th president on Friday. An aspiring pediatrician at Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City, […]
January 23, 2017
Policies
Study: Health Coverage Has Other Economic Benefits
House and Senate lawmakers took the first step last week toward repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare. While there is no doubt of a major fight ahead over what happens next, researchers from the Brown School and Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis have given lawmakers something […]
January 18, 2017
Policies
18 M Will Be Uninsured If Obamacare Dies
WASHINGTON — Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul without a replacement, Congress’ budget analysts said Tuesday (January 17). Spotlighting potential perils for Republicans, the report immediately became a flashing hazard light for […]
January 18, 2017
Policies
Senators Grill HHS Pick on Care Act, Stock Trades
Rep. Tom Price—President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services—said “nobody is interested in pulling the rug out from anybody” as part of Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “It’s not our plan for people to lose coverage,” Price told members of the Senate Health, Education, […]
January 18, 2017
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