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Section: Other News
Policies
Trump Makes Appeal for Obamacare ‘Repeal Only”
President Donald Trump is making a weekend push to get a Republican Senate bill to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law “across the finish line,” Trump’s top legislative aide said Sunday, maintaining that a repeal-only option also remained in play if Republicans can’t reach agreement. Marc Short, the White House’s legislative […]
July 5, 2017
Disparities
4 Reasons We Need More Minority Male Doctors
The North Carolina Medical Journal has reported that the proportion of minorities in the healthcare system is not improving, despite efforts from the government. What this means is that it is far more likely that a black male will be seen by a female or non-minority doctor than his counterpart would. Read More
July 5, 2017
Disparities
When You Show Up in E.R. with Sickle Cell
“You’re too pretty to have a disease,” declared the nurse in the emergency department (ED) dismissing Constance Benson’s reports of unbearable pain, a byproduct of her sickle cell disease (SCD). Constance, who is in her late twenties, is a professional actress and model living in Kennesaw, GA. It wasn’t until Constance’s blood tests came back […]
June 28, 2017
Policies
Obamacare Experts: Just Fix What’s Broken
As Senate Republicans struggle to find the votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the architects of Obamacare have an idea to try if they fail. Just fix it. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday delayed the vote planned for this week on the Republican health care plan as complaints from competing wings of […]
June 28, 2017
Policies
Senate Support for Health Bill Slips
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their health care bill as opposition continued to build inside and outside Congress, and as several Republican senators questioned whether it would be approved this week. President Trump expressed confidence that the bill to repeal the guts of the Affordable Care Act would pass. […]
June 26, 2017
Disparities
Rutgers Dean Seeks to Remove Health Disparities
The gay men’s health crisis is sill with us. HIV/AIDS are now treatable, but not yet curable. One of the pre-eminent AIDS/HIV researchers into the disease and advocate for those it has infected is the incoming Dean of Rutgers School of Public Health, Dr. Perry Halkitis. He joins Correspondent Brenda Flanagan. Flanagan: Your identity is […]
June 21, 2017
Other News
Trump: Republican Plan Too “Cold-Hearted”
President Trump has described a health care plan draft that the Republicans have been working on as ‘cold-hearted’ and ‘mean’. The Republicans have been drafting the proposal in secret and not much is known about it at all. All that the proposal makers will reveal is that they are overhauling the existing system completely, which […]
June 19, 2017
Policies
At First Trump Opioid Summit, Advocates Plea for Medicaid Funds
WASHINGTON — Health advocates on Friday used the first meeting of President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis to criticize a bill that would slash future Medicaid spending and deregulate the health insurance market, arguing that the legislation would undermine whatever progress the panel could make. “Medicaid is the largest national payer for addiction and […]
June 19, 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
Disparities
Study: Racial, Ethnic Minority People Get Less Care
America is a melting pot of diversity. Having the ability to meet people from any part of the world is one of America’s biggest assets and one that has made it into the country it is today. It is estimated that racial and ethnic minorities represent 28 percent of Americans, but according to a new […]
June 14, 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
Disparities
Rural America Braces for Alzheimer’s Crisis
June Aman no longer laughs when her husband teases her, which he does fairly often. When she complains about how long it takes Dave to fix something, he says she never told him she was in a hurry. When she says he has no one else to pick on, he responds, “You poor thing.” Sometimes, […]
June 7, 2017
Other News
Trump Plans Overhaul of VA Records
The Trump administration announced Monday that it is taking a multibillion-dollar step to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic medical records system to make it compatible with the Defense Department’s records. “This is one of the biggest wins for our veterans in decades,” President Trump said at the White House. Read More
June 7, 2017
Other News
Single-Payer Healthcare Advances in California
A proposal to adopt a single-payer healthcare system for California took an initial step forward Thursday when the state Senate approved a bare-bones bill that lacks a method for paying the $400-billion cost of the plan. The proposal was made by legislators led by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) at the same time President Trump […]
June 7, 2017
Other News
Children’s Hospitals Caught in Crosshairs by Funding Cuts
Republican plans targeting federal funding for health coverage have drawn ire from Americans in all corners of the country, but some of the loudest voices are coming from parents. They have cornered members of Congress at town halls to ask how the slashed budgets will affect some of society’s most vulnerable. Suggested cuts to Medicaid […]
June 7, 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
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