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Might Republicans make job-based health insurance taxable? And how can you fight an insurance denial for lung-cancer screening? Also, can pharmacists prescribe drugs? Here are answers to some recent questions from readers. Q: I've heard that Republicans plan to change the system so that I'd have to pay income taxes on my health insurance benefits.
Just three weeks into her new job as House Budget Committee chair-and 20 months before an election that could be pivotal to her political future-Diane Black already faces a tricky balancing act. The Tennessee Republican, whose foray into leadership came unexpectedly when Tom Price was tapped for the Cabinet last January, will now oversee the budget reconciliation process expected to serve as a vehicle for both Obamacare repeal and tax reform this year.
Republican U.S. lawmakers expect to unveil this week the text of long-awaited legislation to repeal and replace the Obamacare healthcare law, one of President Donald Trump's top legislative priorities, a senior Republican congressional aide said on Sunday. Since taking office in January, Trump has pressed his fellow Republicans who control Congress to act quickly to dismantle former Democratic President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act and pass a plan to replace it, but lawmakers in the party have differed on the specifics.
In the next few months, Georgia and Montana will hold special elections to fill newly vacant House seats, and what happens in those races may tell us a lot about the broader state of the Democratic and Republican parties in the distant 2018 midterms.
Democrats have a long way to go to rebuild their party after brutal losses across the board last November. But they're seeing glimmers of hope in recent and upcoming special elections where they argue the backlash to President Trump is resulting in change at the ballot box.
Californians join health care workers at a rally to save the Affordable Care Act across the country outside LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, Jan. 15, 2017. Affordable Care Act supporter Lucero Mesa holds a sign reading "Obamacare Saves Lives" during an ACA support rally at the South Carolina Governor's Mansion.
It's hard to overstate how much is on House Speaker Paul Ryan's plate right now. He presides over a restive group of Republicans who deposed his predecessor.
Planned Parenthood South Austin Health Center is seen in Austin, Texas, U.S. on June 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ilana Panich-Linsman/File Photo A federal judge on Tuesday ruled Texas officials cannot cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, allowing the organization to continue providing reimbursed services - at least temporarily - to the 12,500 Texas Medicaid patients who rely on it.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events A woman holding an Obamacare sign in front of a medical center in Miami on Nov. 27, 2016. One of the biggest early surprises under the Trump administration is that the long-standing Republican campaign against Obamacare seems to be shifting from "demolish it" to "fix it ."
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday denied that he or his colleagues in Congress have misled the public about how quickly Obamacare would be repealed and replaced. "I heard everything from Obamacare will be done on day one, to the spring, to the summer, to the - by the end of the year.
President Donald Trump's new health secretary took office Friday after becoming the latest Cabinet nominee to eke out a confirmation victory in the bitterly divided Senate. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office to Tom Price, of Georgia, at the White House hours after the Senate confirmed him 52-47 in a party-line vote.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have rallied behind the case that the Affordable Care Act needs to be amended and not repealed, using the prospects of coverage disappearing as a cudgel against Republicans, including newly installed Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. But the real action has been in the districts, where constituents and activists alike have overwhelmed phone lines and town halls demanding that Republicans put the brakes on their repeal efforts.
Rep. Tom Price, President Donald Trump's choice to be health secretary, is the latest of a handful of Cabinet nominees to eke out a confirmation victory in a bitterly divided Senate. Following the pattern of strictly party-line votes on two previous nominees - Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions and Betsy DeVos for Education secretary - the Georgia congressman was approved early Friday on a 52-47 vote.
The legal fight over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations could shift to the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump's choice for health secretary, Rep. Tom Price, is the latest of a handful of Cabinet nominees to squeeze through to confirmation by a bitterly-divided, partisan U.S. Senate.
The Senate confirmed Rep. Tom Price to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services during a 2 a.m. vote Friday. No Democratic senator supported Price in the 52-47 vote.
"The American people are ... still waiting for that one tweet which says: I will keep my promise. I will not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and if Republicans give me legislation to do that, I will veto that legislation," Sanders said from the Senate floor on Thursday night.
Elizabeth Warren Senate confirms Trump's Health chief Warren blasts Price in first Senate speech since being silenced Senate poised for more late-night votes on Trump nominees MORE slammed Rep. Tom Price ahead a final vote on his nomination to lead the Health and Human Services Department, her first remarks on the Senate floor since she was temporarily barred from speaking. "He wants to destroy fundamental protections that millions of Americans depend on for their health and economic security," she said from the Senate floor.
The Senate is expected to confirm Rep. Tom Price to be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services during a middle of the night vote. Democrats opposed Price, a Republican from Georgia, because he is a key architect of undoing the Affordable Care Act and has advocated making major changes to Medicare.
With Senate confirmation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, President Donald Trump filled another important post in his new government. Only 685 to go.