Overnight Healthcare: Key GOP centrists open to ending Medicaid…

GOP moderates in the Senate are open to ending federal funding for ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, but want a longer deadline for ending the additional funding than their leadership has proposed. Fractured Republicans weigh options Key GOP centrists open to ending Medicaid expansion Trump 'regulatory czar': Two-for-one rule can work MORE have proposed a seven-year phase out of federal funding for the Medicaid expansion, beginning in 2020 and ending in 2027.

Swiss stocks – Factors to watch on June 7

The Swiss adhesives maker's fight with family shareholders Schenker-Winkler Holding AG over the sale of their stake to France's Saint Gobain continued on Tuesday, with Schenker-Winkler lodging a legal challenge to the re-election of board members including Chairman Paul Haelg. The World Health Organization said the Swiss drugmaker's well-known flu drug Tamiflu may be removed from the global group's "essential medicines list" unless new information supports its use in seasonal and pandemic influenza outbreaks.

Kentucky supplier recalls more than 22,000 pounds of beef

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Patient-death lawsuit reinstated against drugmaker

A federal appeals court has reinstated litigation against a pharmaceutical company in a young man's death, ruling a lower court had improperly excluded experts' testimony. Maxx Wendell, who died at age 21 in 2007 of hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma, a very rare and aggressive cancer, had been treated for many years previously with a combination of drugs for inflammatory bowel disease, according to Friday's ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in Stephen Wendell; Lisa Wendell et al. v.

Obamacare Repeal Sinks Into Tedious Talking Points

In defending the unpopular and flawed House bill to replace Obamacare, a common Republican refrain is that it fully protects health-insurance coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. "Under this bill, no matter what, you cannot be denied coverage if you have a pre-existing condition," insisted House Speaker Paul Ryan, a talking point echoed by President Donald Trump.

In Georgia, a Democratic upset depends on a balancing act

Watch Atlanta television long enough and you're bound to see a young congressional candidate pledging to cut "wasteful spending" and make "both parties in Washington" be "accountable to you." Yet follow Jon Ossoff in Georgia's 6th Congressional District and you'll see the 30-year-old Democrat joining fellow millennials for happy hour, convening a group of women's health advocates and hosting specific minority groups across Atlanta's northern suburbs.

Millennial View: Catherine Rampell – Trump’s snowflakery is infecting the GOP

Perhaps the worst sports in America, White House officials refuse to accept that their health-care plan is a huge, stinking, hopeless failure. A month ago, House Republicans - at the White House's urging - shoved a terrible health-care bill through to a vote.

GOP focus on lowering health premiums may undermine benefits

Republicans trying to dismantle former President Barack Obama's health care law have run into the same problem that bedeviled him: Quality health insurance doesn't come cheap, especially if it protects people in poor health, older adults not yet eligible for Medicare, and the poor. Now, the GOP's laser focus on lowering premiums could undermine comprehensive coverage that consumers also value, such as the current guarantees that people with medical problems can get health insurance, or that plans will cover costly conditions such as substance abuse.

Thousands in north country risk losing financial assistance under Trump budget

As it stands, President Donald J. Trump's proposed federal budget is poised to take away health care and financial assistance from thousands in the north country. Earlier this week, President Trump released a proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year that includes massive health care and entitlement program cuts while increasing defense spending.

23 million more uninsured with GOP health bill, analysts say

The health care bill Republicans recently pushed through the House would leave 23 million more Americans without insurance and confront others who have costly medical conditions with coverage that could prove unaffordable, Congress' official budget analysts said Wednesday.

OnPolitics Today: Trumpcare could leave 23 million without health insurance

OnPolitics Today: Trumpcare could leave 23 million without health insurance Use it before you maybe lose it. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2qY2STh The Republican healthcare plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act that passed the House in early May would decrease the deficit but increase the number of uninsured people, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The three numbers you need to understand the CBO report on Republicans’ health-care bill

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events The CBO's analysis of the American Health Care Act has been politicized by all sides. Two former directors of the non-partisan agency give their perspective on why the report matters.

Budget office to gauge health bill effect on coverage, cost

Congressional Republicans are about to learn more about whether their drive to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law has been worth the political pain they've been experiencing. The Congressional Budget Office planned to release its estimate Wednesday of what impact the GOP's House-passed health care overhaul would have on coverage and premiums.

Poor and disabled big losers in Trump budget; military wins

Eric Ueland, Republican staff director, Senate Budget Committee holds a copy of President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget, before distributing them to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. less Eric Ueland, Republican staff director, Senate Budget Committee holds a copy of President Donald Trump's fiscal 2018 federal budget, before distributing them to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill in ... more Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks about President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal 2018 federal budget in the Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2017.

Cabinet members head to Capitol Hill to defend Trump budget

Top officials in President Donald Trump 's Cabinet are heading to Capitol Hill to defend his plans to cut domestic programs and parry Democratic criticism of his tax proposals. Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appears Wednesday before the House Budget panel while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will testify at the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee .