Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey has highlighted the continued biosecurity efforts by Iowa turkey, egg and broiler farmers and the preparations undertaken on the state and federal level following the confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Tennessee and low pathogenicity avian influenza in Tennessee and Wisconsin in the past week. Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus strains are extremely infectious, often fatal to domestic poultry, and can spread rapidly from flock-to-flock.
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Hospitals worry about caring for newly uninsured in GOP plan
When Colorado expanded Medicaid coverage under former President Barack Obama’s health care law, the largest provider in the Denver region hired more than 250 employees and built a $27 million primary care clinic and two new school-based clinics. Emergency rooms visits stayed flat as Denver Health Medical Center directed many of the nearly 80,000 newly insured patients into one of its 10 community health centers, where newly hired social workers and mental health therapists provided services for some of the county’s poorest residents.
WaPo: “They are poor, sick and voted for Trump. What will…
Because of the ACA, Clyde’s visit is covered by Medicaid. Before the law, most West Virginians without children or disabilities could not qualify for Medicaid, no matter how poor they were.
Letter: Chaffetz blames working class for failed health care system
Rep. Jason Chaffetz said on CNN that Americans may have to choose between paying for an iPhone and paying for health insurance. Once again we have a Republican politician blaming the working class for our failed health-care system.
We can’t rest on substance abuse
Though they disagree strongly about many aspects of government spending, the vast majority of West Virginia legislators, both Republicans and Democrats, understand one thing: The state is broke. Any thought of new spending had better be based on real necessity.
American Medical Association calls Republican health care plan ‘critically flawed’
Dr. Andrew Gurman, president of the American Medical Association, explains the group’s opposition to the Republican Health Care Plan and the bill moving through the House of Representatives. Turning now to Congress.
How healthy are you? GOP bill would help employers find out
A bill in Congress could make it harder for workers to keep employers from getting access to their personal medical and genetic information and raise the financial penalties for those who opt out of workplace wellness programs. House Republicans are proposing legislation aimed at making it easier for companies to gather genetic data from workers and their families, including their children, when they collect it as part of a voluntary wellness program.
GOP plan less generous than Obamacare for older Americans
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, spoke with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. during a Tuesday news conference on health care, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Say a where’s the Democratic plan to fix ObamaCare, anyway?
Remember “mend it, don’t end it”? Democrats have floated that slogan for three years while trying to convince voters that their unhappiness with ObamaCare doesn’t mean throwing it out entirely. A year ago, Chelsea Clinton argued that the “crushing costs” of the ACA needed immediate attention, but not repeal.
Hill Republican leaders reject suggestion to move up Medicaid expansion sunset
Republican congressional leaders are rejecting Friday any hint from the White House that they should disrupt their carefully crafted bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. After CNN reported Thursday night that President Donald Trump was open to moving up the sunset of the Medicaid expansion up from 2020 to the end of this year, GOP leaders supporting the bill aren’t biting.
Republicans Just Made Trump’s Reelection a Whole Lot Tougher
President Donald Trump has thrown his full weight behind the House Republicans’ plan to overturn Obamacare. But he might end up regretting that move in 2020.
Politics fire up late-night
Not even two months into Donald J. Trump’s presidency, and it’s clear his administration and the conservative tilt in Washington has fired up the monologues of late-night television. On Tuesday, for example, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took a jab at the just-unveiled and much-anticipated health-care plan by House Republicans: “This is the one that’s supposed to replace Obamacare, they’re calling it the American Health Care Act.
Trump Pushes Health Bill, But Ryan Owns It
Republican lawmakers don’t want to cross the President, especially since he could walk away and leave the House holding the bag. House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis.
Trump tests dealmaker image to sell healthcare bill
President Donald Trump has launched a charm offensive of the type not seen before in his brief and chaotic tenure, forcefully rallying behind legislation to repeal the Obamacare healthcare law while trying to placate the bill’s opponents. U.S. President Donald Trump walks from Marine One as he returns to the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2017.
GOP’s Obamacare Replacement May Reduce Bureaucracy, but Not Bureaucrats
Republicans have spoken for years of the need to remove government from individual health care decisions. And in touting their new American Health Care Act, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said the “most important thing it does” is “it takes the power out of the bureaucracy and puts it back to the doctors and patients where it belongs.”
Thanks to Trump and the GOP, a California single-payer healthcare system is now possible
Republican proposals for Medicaid block grants unintentionally would remove a key obstacle to California creating its own single-payer insurance system. Republican proposals for Medicaid block grants unintentionally would remove a key obstacle to California creating its own single-payer insurance system.
Meadows Pushes Changes in Obamacare Repeal Bill
Despite increasing pressure from the White House and congressional leaders, Rep. Mark Meadows isn’t backing down from his opposition to House Republicans’ legislation repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, seeking significant changes to bring conservatives on board. Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, and conservative colleagues in both the House and Senate have raised major objections in the days following the release of the long-awaited health care replacement, putting in question Republicans’ ability to pass the legislation.
These are the issues with GOP’s plan to replace Obamacare
House Speaker Paul Ryan holds up a copy of the American Health Care Act – legislation to replace Obamacare – during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. As the sure to be heated legislative fight over the replacement of Obamacare gets under way, both Democrats and Republicans have expressed concerns about the bill.
Repair, don’t repeal
After years of demanding a nix and a fix of President Obama’s signature legislation on health insurance, a Republican president and Congress are finally getting their chance. House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Vice president touts choice in Obamacare replacement bill
Vice President Mike Pence says a bill put forth by congressional Republicans earlier this week is “the beginning of the end of Obamacare.” “When you think about the burden that Obamacare has placed on American families and American businesses since it was signed into law in 2010, this represents a historic opportunity for President Trump, our administration and the Congress to keep a promise to the American people,” the vice president said Wednesday as he spoke live with WOOD-TV political reporter Rick Albin from Washington, D.C. Pence said the plan would “lower the cost of health insurance by giving the American people more choices, including buying health insurance across state lines.”
Trump, Democrats Look For Common Ground On Drug Prices
For years, congressional Democrats have tried to pass legislation to allow Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices for millions of beneficiaries. On Wednesday, U.S. Reps.
Conservative are railing against the GOP’s healthcare bill as…
Conservative Republicans, groups, and media outlets are not happy with the House GOP leadership’s plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. The right-leaning entities have dubbed the new plan – officially named the American Health Care Act – “Obamacare-lite” because it preserves what they consider to be objectionable parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Ryan: ‘We Will Have 218 Votes’ to Pass Our Repeal-and-Replace Plan
House Speaker Paul Ryan talks about the Republican leadership’s repeal and replace plan at a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. House committees will begin marking up the Republican leadership’s repeal-and-replace plan on Wednesday, and then it will head to the Budget and Rules Committees next week.
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Republican governors complain that a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama’s health care law would force millions of lower-income earners off insurance rolls or stick states with the cost of keeping them covered. Governors, especially those from political battleground states, were generally cool to the bill put forth in the Republican-controlled U.S. House.
Trump riding herd on Congress to pass Obamacare repeal
The House health care bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act , is taking heat from all sides, perhaps a sign that the House Republicans who wrote the plan are in the area of the target. Repeal the mandates but add a one-time 30% premium surcharge for those who had previously failed to buy insurance.
Columbus reacts to potential healthcare changes as GOP promises to replace ACA
As Congress prepares to debate over this potential health care replacement, we talked to concerned citizens, getting their thoughts on what should stay or go on their health insurance. The question on their minds is how and when will the new bill affect them, considering this new bill could potentially affect 20 million people nationwide who now have health insurance with aid from the Affordable Care Act.
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Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Republicans’ new health-care bill is a mass transfer of wealth that cuts taxes for the wealthiest Americans while cutting federal benefits for the middle and working class. Just two provisions in the Republican plan would allow the richest households to pay an average of nearly $200,000 less under the Republican plan, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
House Republican plan would create Obamacare cliff for 2020 presidential election
House Republicans on Monday released their long-awaited healthcare bill, but the plan would only repeal major parts of Obamacare starting in 2020 – when the political world will be engulfed in the next presidential election. This implementation timeline raises major questions about whether, if Republicans were able to overcome the current legislative hurdles and pass this plan into law, its version of repeal would actually ever go into effect.
GOP Senators Cry Foul Over Medicaid Expansion Repeal
The House Republican plan to phase out the Obamacare Medicaid expansion by 2020 may be a nonstarter for some Senate Republicans-and could potentially threaten the larger repeal-and-replace process. Shortly before House lawmakers revealed a revamped version of their Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill Monday evening, four Republican senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying they would not support an earlier draft from Feb. 10 that repeals Medicaid expansion because it “does not meet the test of stability for individuals currently enrolled in the program.”
Bird flu found at commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, USDA says
A strain of bird flu has been found in a commercial chicken farm in Tennessee, the US Department of Agriculture and state government agencies said Sunday. The H7 strain of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, or HPAI, was found in a flock of 73,500 chickens in Lincoln County, in the central part of the state on the border with Alabama, the USDA said.
Sen. Portman, do not force devastating changes to Ohio’s Medicaid program: Paul Cain
Victoria Byrd, a medical student, protests last month in Cleveland, calling on Sen. Rob Portman to vote against Affordable Care Act repeal. Today, Paul Cain, who has the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 2, writes that Portman and other Republicans are irresponsible in rushing to repeal the act.
Dayton to spend 1 more day at Mayo after prostate surgery
In this Jan. 24, 2017 file photo, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton speaks in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota officials are bracing for billions of dollars in additional health care expenses if congressional Republicans enact a plan they’re discussing to replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a draft document obtained by The Associated Press.
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Nathan Moracco , assistant commissioner of Health Care at the Minnesota Department of Human Services, speaks as Head of the Lakes United Way president Matt Hunter and Sarah Wovcha with Children’s Health Services listens during a healthcare forum organized by the Head of the Lakes United Way in the Underground at the Depot in Duluth on Friday … (more)
40,000 Pounds of veal recalled due to possible E.coli contamination
Ohio Farms Packing Co. Ltd. has issued a recall of more than 40,000 pounds of veal products, the US Department of Agriculture announced Thursday.
Ohio company recalls more than 40,000 pounds of veal
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday that Ohio Farms Packing Co. is recalling several thousand boxes of boneless veal products for possible E. coli contamination.
GOP health bill: Less government; but what about coverage?
Health insurance tax credits, mandates, taxation of employer coverage, essential benefits. Mind-numbing health care jargon is flying around again as Republicans move to repeal and replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.
Democrats in speech rebuttal say Trump will ‘rip’ away care
In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, then-Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear speaks in Louisville, Ky. Beshear took a populist tenor in Democrats’ formal response to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, accusing him of planning to “rip affordable health insurance” from Americans and being “Wall Street’s champion.”
Trump pushes state Medicaid flexibility
President Trump said state governors need flexibility on Medicaid to “make sure that no one is left out” of healthcare coverage. During an address Tuesday before a joint session of Congress, Trump pushed for giving states more power to craft Medicaid, a nod to Republican plans to move federal funding toward a block grant program or per capita caps.
Trump throws down a huge challenge to the tea party
President Trump has thrown down a major challenge for the tea party and its congressional bloc, known as the Freedom Caucus. He is proposing to Congress a massive budget-busting plan that increases military spending by a whopping $54 billion, slashes domestic programs, and leaves Social Security and Medicare intact.
Obamacare plans’ drug spending rose faster than other plans in 2016: Express Scripts
Spending on prescription drugs for health plans created under the Affordable Care Act increased last year at a rate more than three times that of other commercial plans and most government-run plans managed by Express Scripts Holding Co. Express Scripts, the largest manager of prescription drug plans for U.S. employers, on Tuesday said year-over-year spending per person for individual insurance plans sold on the Obamacare exchanges where it manages the pharmacy benefit rose 14 percent in 2016, driven by higher drug prices and utilization.