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Consumer Reporter Lynda Baquero helps a Long Island man after he changed his healthcare provider but the bills then came to him! From a return to higher premiums based on gender, to gaps in coverage for birth control and breast pumps, experts say women could end up paying more for less if the Obama-era health care law is repealed. The 2010 law ended a common industry practice of charging women more than men for policies purchased directly from an insurer.
Panasonic Corp said on Thursday its avionics unit is being investigated by U.S. authorities under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and that it had replaced the long-time head of the business. In a stock exchange filing, the Japanese electronics maker said Panasonic Avionics Corp, a major supplier of inflight entertainment systems, is being probed by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission .
The jury's still out on Donald Trump and LGBT issues, but so far he has defied Republican anti-gay orthodoxy Donald Trump hasn't yet been president for two weeks, but already he has taken numerous actions to fulfill promises he made as a presidential candidate. He has set the repeal of Obamacare in motion, implemented a ban on immigrants and travelers from certain Muslim-majority countries and worked closely with a conservative legal affairs group to nominate a Supreme Court justice.
Big Dairy is making another effort to suppress non-dairy alternatives, with a new bill before Congress that would order the FDA to punish companies that use terms such as "milk," "cheese," or "yogurt" on products not made with cow's milk. The new bill is just the latest salvo in a fight that the dairy industry has been waging for years, ever since sales of dairy started to fall in favor of alternative products.
Republicans have yet to agree on how they want to replace the Affordable Care Act, but they're hearing that they might not have much time. Insurance companies need some details by the end of March as they develop health coverage packages for 2018, panelists suggested at a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
Almost every business has to face some kind of regulations from government agencies in order to do business in the U.S. or elsewhere. Many of those regulations are designed to protect consumers or spur competition.
In early 2015, the MacArthur Foundation launched a grant program that would award millions of dollars to help local governments pursue criminal justice reform. Two years and almost 200 applications later, the nonprofit is still doling out money to municipalities seeking to reduce the number of people they jail.
JANUARY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Gorsuch would fill the seat left vacant with the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.
He has said he was putting finishing touches on a plan that would provide "insurance for everybody" and would submit a proposal as soon as his nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services is confirmed. But according to Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, a key player in the GOP's efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, there may not be a Trump Obamacare plan.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he won't roll back federal workplace protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer people, giving a rare nod of approval to President Barack Obama's work on the issue. In a statement released early morning, the White House said Obama's 2014 executive order prohibiting LGBTQ workplace discrimination would remain intact "at the direction" of Trump.
Demonstrators that include mostly medical students protest a proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act in New York, U.S., January 30, 2017. Demonstrators that include mostly medical students protest a proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act in New York, U.S., January 30, 2017.
Jay Gonzalez, the former budget chief for former Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, announced Monday that he plans to challenge the popular incumbent. Gonzalez said Massachusetts needs a governor who will stand up to Republican President Donald Trump and defend the state's values.
Two Congressional committees are reviewing a lawsuit seeking to stop the city from destroying municipal-ID card records , sources told The Post. Officials with the Senate Homeland Security's Subcommittee on Investigations and the House Committee on Homeland Security have received copies of a suit seeking to preserve such records and are discussing whether to investigate Mayor de Blasio's policy that seeks to destroy them, sources said.
The night before Donald Trump's inauguration, five environmental lawyers filed a federal court brief defending an Obama administration clean-water rule that the new president and his Republican allies have targeted for elimination, considering it burdensome to landowners. The move served as a warning that environmentalists, facing a hostile administration and a Republican-dominated Congress, are prepared to battle in court against what they fear will be a wave of "It's going to be all-out war," said Vermont Law School Professor Patrick Parenteau.
Republican lawmakers are fearful about the potential political fallout if their eventual replacement of President Barack Obama 's health law doesn't deliver, and they didn't hold back at their recent policy conference. "We'd better be sure that we're prepared to live with the market we've created," Rep. Tom McClintock , R-Calif., was quoted as saying in Saturday's Washington Post, one of the media organizations that obtained an audio recording of a private session at last week's GOP strategy retreat in Philadelphia, "That's going to be called 'Trumpcare.'
W/R: U.S. Attorney no stranger to Muncie The Walker/Roysdon Report looks at local politics and government. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: http://tspne.ws/2jHJB25 This is hardly a revelation to those who know or grew up with him, but U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler, whose office is likely calling the shots in that ongoing federal investigation of Muncie city government, is a native of - you guessed it - Muncie.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Friday it would be "illegal" for President Donald J. Trump's administration to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities under an executive order issued Wednesday. "Cutting off funding to Hartford or any town or city in Connecticut would be illegal," Blumenthal said.
Several of President Donald Trump's key nominees have been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Even a few about whom partisan bickering was strident have been approved.
A question for those who voted for Donald Trump and Elise Stefanik. Did you expect them to take away the Affordable Care Act, condemning 6,796 people just in Warren County to no health care insurance? Or destroying Social Security and Medicare ? That is exactly what congressional extremists led by Speaker Paul Ryan intend.
In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, police officers watch protesters as smoke fills the streets in Ferguson, Mo. Clark Ervin, a Washington lawyer monitoring the consent decree involving the St. Louis suburb that has been under Justice Department scrutiny since the fatal 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown, said Ferguson missed deadlines in crafting new policies and procedures on basic policing practices.