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Executive Director of the Lackey Free Clinic, Carol Sale, gestures during an interview at the Lackey Free Clinic in Yorktown, Va., Thursday, March 1, 2018. Virginia lawmakers aren't going to pass a budget on schedule this year, the second time in four years that disagreements over Medicaid expansion have led to a stalemate.
H.R. 1409, co-sponsored by Representative Leonard Lance and Representative Brian Higgins ensures that any health plan covering cancer care offer patients the same level of cost-sharing for all forms of cancer medicine. "Bipartisan support for the Cancer Drug Parity Act has grown to 136 cosponsors, reflecting the strong momentum in Congress to pass this piece of meaningful cancer treatment legislation, said Congressman Lance.
Republicans in Congress spent much of 2017 seeking to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. After repeated attempts failed, they celebrated a victory with the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
On the heels of closing Memorial Hospital in December -- laying off 800 plus employees, Care New England's Women & Infants is now closing its Woonsocket office. "We are turning into as medical colony.
West Virginia teachers, school staff, and allies gather at the capitol grounds for a candlelight vigil. West Virginia teachers continued their strike for a third day on Monday.
Republican leaders in the state legislature last week unveiled their long-awaited proposal to continue the expansion of Medicaid in New Hampshire, hoping to continue government-funded health insurance for the 50,000 or so Granite Staters who've come on board since eligibility was expanded as part of Obamacare.
On a warm December day in 1995, I traveled to the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham to hear then-first lady Hillary Clinton speak. After hopping on a shuttle bus, I struck up a conversation with the woman seated next to me, a smart, vibrant and young state senator.
A political melee over Medicaid issues unfolded during today's meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee. Bills backed by the House GOP leadership that were supposed to be part of larger deal to advance tax proposals in this special session were unexpectedly deferred by their legislative sponsors.
The Texas Federation of Teachers held a protest rally in front of the Stafford office of Congressman Tom DeLay in 2003, wanting a bill granting teachers full Social Security spousal and family benefits in addition to their Texas Teachers' Retirement System benefits. That didn't come true and now rising insurance premiums are eating into their TRS benefits.
James Knable, left, and Jeffrey Freeland, right, help to unpack copies of the President's FY19 Budget after it arrived at the House Budget Committee office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. James Knable, left, and Jeffrey Freeland, right, help to unpack copies of the President's FY19 Budget after it arrived at the House Budget Committee office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018.
The Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations today announced that Mohamed Al-Bitar, a Syrian grandfather suffering from eye cancer, has arrived in Atlanta for medical treatment after receiving a waiver to the Trump administration's "Muslim Ban." On Saturday, February 9, Al-Bitar and his wife arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where they were reunited with their Georgia-based family members, including a daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren.
President Donald Trump shares a laugh with Ms.Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Secretary Tom Price, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Vice President Mike Pence on... President Donald Trump introduces Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach of Ireland, to Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, in the West Wing Lobby on Thursday, March 16, 2017, upon the Prime Minister's arrival to the White House.
Lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states are considering ways to reduce prescription drug costs, including importing them from Canada, as they strive to balance budgets without knowing for sure what their governments' tabs will be. A total of 87 bills in 34 states of all political stripes seek to save money on prescription drugs, according to the nonpartisan National Academy for State Health Policy.
In a twist on Washington's truism about presidential budgets being D.O.A., President Donald Trump's 2019 fiscal plan due Monday is dead before it gets there. The original plan was for Trump's new budget to slash domestic agencies even further than last year's proposal, but instead it will land in Congress three days after he signed a two-year budget agreement that wholly rewrites both plans.
In this Friday, July 8, 2016, file photo, a pharmacy technician fills a prescription at a pharmacy, in Sacramento, Calif. Lawmakers in almost half the states are considering ways in 2018 to reduce prescription drug costs, including importing them from Canada.
By BILL BARROW, Associated Press NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa. - In southwest Pennsylvania, Democratic congressional hopeful Conor Lamb hammers the new Republican tax law as a gift to corporations and the wealthy that will add to the national debt and give the GOP-led Congress an excuse to gut Social Security and Medicare.
Joining the growing list of Democrats and Republicans jumping into the race for Rep. Darrell's Issa's Congressional seat since he announced his retirement is Navy veteran and businessman Paul Kerr. Kerr says he's running for office because he's faced the struggles many Americans are going through today, including not having health care, working a minimum wage job and transitioning from the military to civilian life.
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President Donald Trump will propose lowering prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries by allowing them to share in rebates that drug companies pay to insurers and middlemen, an administration official said Thursday. A senior administration official outlined the plan on condition of anonymity ahead of the release of Trump's 2019 budget plan next week.
West Virginia's Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Tuesday proposed a five-point strategy to rein in opioids abuse in his hard-hit corner of Appalachia, from an "enforcement surge" of 150 state troopers to limiting certain fills of pain pills to just three days. The legislative package would shield prescribers who decline to prescribe opioids - so doctors don't put economic incentives over safe care - tighten up prescribing practices under the state Medicaid program and force doctors to crosscheck a prescribing database every time they write a script for opioids, instead of just once a year.