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Congressional Republicans, anticipating confrontations with angry Affordable Care Act supporters during the upcoming February recess, have been given talking points by party leaders to counter and deflect the growing public rancor. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday provided an outline of the ACA repeal legislation that Republicans will introduce after Congress returns on Feb. 27. But former Obama administration health advisers said the document and its strategy recommendations for GOP lawmakers couldn't hide the fact that Republicans still hadn't produced a definitive plan to replace Obamacare.
President Donald Trump's pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana's governor, a post she maintained amid a web of business arrangements - including one that ethics experts say conflicted with her public duties. A review by The Associated Press found Seema Verma and her small Indianapolis-based firm made millions through consulting agreements with at least nine states while also working under contract for Hewlett Packard.
From Pennsylvania to Tennessee to California, hundreds of protests of varying size against Planned Parenthood and counterprotests in support of the nonprofit health organization took place across the country Saturday. #ProtestPP, a national coalition opposed to abortion rights that seeks to end any public funding for Planned Parenthood, said more than 200 rallies were planned in 45 states.
A Republican congressman's town hall erupted into fights over "death panels" as pro-Obamacare attendees shouted down claims of their existence, the latest site for contentious meetings between lawmakers and their constituents this week. Rep. Gus Bilirakis was the next lawmaker to face constituents outraged by the GOP's efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price has officially taken the helm of his department. The former congressman and orthopedic surgeon will soon find that our healthcare system today is a very sick patient.
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.
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In a corner of the U.S. Department of Commerce website cluttered with millions of statistics and data sits a series of numbers that paint a stark reality of Obamacare. Most notably, just how much damage one tax created by this onerous law has wielded on U.S. manufacturers across the country.
The destructive toll of Donald Trump's presidency is beginning to emerge, foreshadowing what's likely to come as the White House and congressional Republicans begin to reverse, repeal and replace federal laws and regulations and downsize agencies. While Trump's red-state supporters may be cheering now, they'll soon feel the consequences.
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was not bothered by recent protests against dismantling Obamacare. U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said he was not bothered by recent protests against dismantling Obamacare.
Once more, the Congressional Budget Office has warned that federal deficits will continue to rise until current laws are changed. But so far, President Donald Trump shows no signs of making the deficit a priority or of undertaking the hard bipartisan work that will be required to make the necessary changes.
A new $288 million high-security juvenile prison will be built and Melbourne's Parkville centre will be shut down after a series of riots sparked a crisis in the sector. Under a massive shake-up of youth justice, responsibility will be taken off the Department of Health and Human Services in April.
And with the defeat of many expansion opponents in last year's elections, there is a good chance a revenue-neutral bill could clear both chambers. But even if that happens, expansion still faces tough odds.
Gov. Eric Holcomb has requested the renewal of a federal waiver that allows Indiana's Healthy Indiana Plan 2.0 to serve hundreds of thousands of low-income Hoosiers. The request begins an eight-month process with the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that is expected to go smoothly under President Donald Trump's administration.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski leaves after a vote in an elevator at the Capitol February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. I am heartened by the opposition of Senators Murkowski and Collins to the appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.
OCTOBER 24: U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone speaks during a hearing on implementation of the Affordable Care Act before the House Energy and Commerce Committee October 24, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Developers who helped to build the website for people to buy health insurance under Obamacare testified before the panel on what had gone wrong to cause the technical difficulties in accessing the site.
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.
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.