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Section: Health

What Cuba Can Teach Us

It was a rare moment in the health care debate. A Trump supporter, Drea Holbert of Kentucky, was explaining her opposition to Republican health care bills to an NPR reporter when she said this: “Hopefully, they can take a look at what Canada is doing, and even Cuba.” Inside the beltway, though, Canadian-style health care […]

September 20, 2017

Professor: Destigmatize Obesity

A University of Texas professor recently urged his colleagues to “remove the stigma associated with large body types.” Professor Robert Reece, who teaches sociology at the university, argued in a recent essay for Teaching Tolerance magazine that educators must fight against fat stigma because it causes “internalized stigma and destructive behaviors” among overweight people. Read […]

September 20, 2017

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Insurance Rates Drop 26% in Alaska

Alaskans buying health insurance on the individual market will see a decrease of 26.5 percent in rates next year, the sole insurer in the state announced Tuesday. Alaskans had been paying some of the highest premiums in the nation. Read More

September 20, 2017

Survey: Consumers and Congress Disagree on What’s “Affordable”

Consumers value health insurance but often have to make sacrifices to afford it. Consumers and lawmakers disagree about what exactly “affordable” healthcare means. And doctors favor a new model for how they’re paid. Those are just a few of the takeaways from a new survey the Texas Medical Center’s Health Policy Institute released today (Sept. […]

September 20, 2017

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Navy Removes Employees in Snapchat Incident

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Navy hospital in Florida has removed some employees from patient care after Snapchat photos showed a nurse giving the middle finger to a newborn with a caption that said, “How I currently feel about these “mini Satans.” Jeanne Casey, spokeswoman for the Naval Hospital Jacksonville, said in a statement released late […]

September 20, 2017

Kimmel Takes on Latest Healthcare Bill

Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel took aim Tuesday at Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s new co-authored health care bill that would undo central components of ObamaCare and replace it with block grants — or federal funds — to the states. The host of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” who delivered a memorable monologue in May when […]

September 20, 2017

Bipartisan Effort to Improve “Obamacare” Ends

A bipartisan attempt at shoring up the Affordable Care Act is officially over in the Senate. The development comes as the GOP has revived its partisan attack on “Obamacare,” with Senate leaders and President Donald Trump pushing repeal and replace legislation. GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, who chairs the Senate’s health committee and had been working […]

September 20, 2017

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Report: Obamacare Ads Work

When Trump administration officials slashed the advertising budget for healthcare.gov, the Affordable Care Act’s online marketplace, they said it was because of efficiency. Advertising, they said, was showing “diminishing returns” and was no longer an effective way to boost enrollment. But research that the Department of Health and Human Services conducted and then distributed internally […]

September 20, 2017

Push “Medicare for All”

Washington – The smartest, savviest people in Washington will tell you Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” idea is dead on arrival, a waste of time and energy. But since those same smart, savvy people told you Donald Trump didn’t have a prayer of becoming president, I’d advise keeping an open mind. What the Vermont senator’s […]

September 18, 2017

Sitting Too Long Can Kill You

In 1960, approximately 50 percent of U.S. jobs required heavy to moderate physical activity. Today, that number stands at just 20 percent, meaning approximately 80 percent of jobs are almost wholly sedentary or demand minimal physical exertion. The vast majority of us spend the bulk of our workdays being mostly immobile, glued to our chairs […]

September 18, 2017

Initiative Targets Disparities in Rural N.C.

A first-ever effort to marshal the combined resources of 12 ECU colleges and schools, 14 centers and institutes and university partners behind a single, coordinated campaign, the “Rural Prosperity Initiative,” was launched today by Chancellor Cecil P. Staton. East Carolina University is focusing its extensive research and engagement expertise on finding solutions to the extraordinary […]

September 18, 2017

Trump Was for Single-Payer Before

Donald Trump has heard about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) “Medicare for All” plan, and he turned to Twitter yesterday to assure Americans the progressive proposal isn’t going anywhere. “Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for a single payer healthcare plan – a curse on the U.S. & its people. I told Republicans to approve healthcare fast […]

September 18, 2017

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

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

Study: Some Disparities Remain Even With ACA

While the Affordable Care Act has helped to significantly reduce care and access disparities between socioeconomic groups, more work is needed to create true coverage equity, according to a new study from Oregon Health and Sciences University. Between 2012 and 2015, the rate of uninsured visits to community health centers (CHCs) decreased by 68 percent […]

September 18, 2017

Study: Premature Babies of Color Get Worse Care

Babies dubbed “very low birth weight infants” are born at less than three pounds five ounces—about the size of a cantaloupe. They’re typically many weeks premature, and usually have to spend around the first 50 days of their lives in a neonatal intensive care unit. These babies already start off behind the curve, and the […]

September 18, 2017

Time for a Plan

Republican candidates got a boost on the eve of last fall’s election when insurers announced big increases in Obamacare premiums for 2017. Unfortunately, the GOP seems intent on making next year’s premium increases even larger. According to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, the combination of decisions by President Donald Trump and uncertainty about what action […]

September 13, 2017

Student Who Questioned Training Wins Settlement

FLINT, Mich. — A Michigan college has been ordered to pay a woman’s nursing school tuition after she was dismissed for questioning lessons she says taught students to scare patients into vaccinations. Nichole Rolfe, 35, was awarded about $15,000 on September 11 in a lawsuit against Baker College, the Flint Journal reported. Rolfe sued the […]

September 13, 2017