The black and white clip , released Thursday, features the comic sitting at a table outside smoking a cigarette as remarks from the specials can be heard in the background. “I know I’ve been gone for a very long time,” Chappelle can be heard saying, a reference to how he has largely remained away from the public eye after he left Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show in 2005.
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Trump talks big, but making it happen is another thing
Like most presidential presentations, Donald Trump’s initial venture into the soaring chamber of the House of Representatives looked and sounded good, producing some positive reactions that could expand the embattled president’s short-term support. Trump’s hour-long address made solving massive national problems sound possible, from creating a more vibrant economy to revamping and expanding health care, if only both parties follow his lead.
Trump’s nominee to run Medicare and Medicaid advances
President Donald Trump ‘s nominee to run Medicare and Medicaid won committee approval Thursday, clearing her for a final floor vote in the Senate. Verma would head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an agency that oversees health insurance programs covering more than 130 million Americans.
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Recently my husband and I talked about what the next four years will bring, and the threat of nuclear annihilation – you know, lighthearted stuff. Like everyone else, the crappy place we’ve found ourselves in takes up a lot of my brain space.
Woman who credits Obamacare with saving her life hears Trump speech to Congress
Maleta Christian of Myrtle Creek, left, joined Sen. Ron Wyden, right, as his guest at President Donald Trump’s address to Congress Tuesday. Christian says Obamacare saved her life, and she’s worried about the new president’s health care plan.
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In a speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Donald Trump outlined five principles to guide lawmakers when repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. “Tonight I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower cost, and at the same time provide better health care,” the president said.
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Allowing insurers to market health care policies across state lines is one of President Donald Trump’s main ideas for bringing down costs. While supporters of the idea cast it as a way to make insurance policies more competitive, critics say it’s unlikely to result in more affordable plans and could undermine stronger consumer protections in states such as California and Hawaii.
President Trump Outlines Principles forCongress to Repeal and Replace Obamacare
In a speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, President Donald Trump outlined five principles to guide lawmakers when repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. “Tonight I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower cost, and at the same time provide better health care,” the president said.
Trump’s likely envoy to Canada: Political donor, philanthropist from coal family
A big-money political donor and philanthropist with personal ties to the coal industry and professional connections to the White House and the U.S. Senate is expected to be named Donald Trump’s ambassador to Canada. Expectations within government, as well as recent media speculation, point to the Trump administration submitting Kelly Knight Craft’s name for the approval of the Senate.
Nielsen: Nearly 48 million watch Trump’s address to nation
President Donald Trump’s first major address to the Congress and the nation was seen by an estimated 47.4 million people. The Nielsen company said Wednesday that Trump’s audience couldn’t quite match the first such speech by predecessor Barack Obama, who drew an audience of 52.4 million in 2009.
Democrats in speech rebuttal say Trump will ‘rip’ away care
In this Dec. 1, 2015 file photo, then-Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear speaks in Louisville, Ky. Beshear took a populist tenor in Democrats’ formal response to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, accusing him of planning to “rip affordable health insurance” from Americans and being “Wall Street’s champion.”
Democrats in speech rebuttal say Trump will ‘rip’ away care…
… formal response to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, accusing him of planning to “rip affordable health insurance” from Americans and being “Wall Street’s champion.” Seated at a diner in Lexington, Kentucky, Beshear assailed Trump for …
Sanders vows to ‘continue to fight’ after Trump’s Congress speech
Sen. Bernie Sanders ripped President Trump’s first speech before Congress in a point-by-point takedown that culminated in a call for continued resistance against the new administration. “Those of you who attended rallies or town hall meetings: Keep showing up, keep calling Congress, and continue to fight,” the Vermont senator said in a live stream uploaded to Facebook minutes after Trump concluded his Tuesday night speech.
President Donald Trump’s First Address to Congress A Grand Slam Home Run
Tonight in President Donald Trump’s first Address to Congress, he called for a “restart the engine of the American economy” through tax cuts, better trade deals, immigration enforcement and a $1 trillion infrastructure program, the repeal and replacement of Obamacare, historic tax reform for business and the middle class, an increase in military spending by $54 billion, while cutting other agency budgets by the same amount and leave entitlements like Medicare untouched.
Stem cell treatment changed the life of one guest at Trump’s speech
… congressional speech Tuesday night. She credits an experimental stem cell treatment with giving her new hope for her health and her future – a newfound hope that also caught attention of Republican Rep. Pete Olson. Olson, who represents Texas’ 22nd …
Trump Presses Priorities as Congress Seeks Clarity, Details
… fundamental change to how the government addresses the major issues facing the country. Details on matters such as health-care policy, taxes and the federal budget have been elusive so far, and his prime-time speech could determine whether voters …
US stock indexes edge lower in early trading; oil falls
… unchanged from an initial estimate. The increase in the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic health, represented a significant slowdown from 3.5 higher. Earlier in Asia, Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index trimmed strong earlier …
Trump looks to refocus his presidency in address to Congress
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with health insurance company executives, Monday, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. A presidential address to Congress is always part policy speech, part political theater.
Trump looks to refocus his presidency in address to Congress
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with health insurance company executives, Monday, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. A presidential address to Congress is always part policy speech, part political theater.
John Oliver explains why the GOP is having so much trouble repealing and replacing Obamacare
… to keep their doctors, despite the fact that he must have known it was a promise he couldn’t keep. Premiums on many health insurance plans have also increased since Obamacare passed, putting a strain on many Americans who were already struggling. …
Pressure on GOP to revamp health law grows, along with rifts
President Donald Trump declared Monday that “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Yet the opposite has long been painfully obvious for top congressional Republicans, who face mounting pressure to scrap the law even as problems grow longer and knottier.
Trump Promises `Something Special’ on Health Care Before Speech
President Donald Trump said his address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday will offer “something special” on his health-care overhaul efforts, as his administration gets increasingly involved with Republican plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. “We’re going to be talking about it tomorrow night during the speech,” Trump said during a meeting with top U.S. health insurance CEOs Monday at the White House.
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President Donald Trump warned Monday that the nation’s health care system was in danger of imploding and said Congress must make fundamental changes to the sweeping health law passed by his predecessor. Trump said at a White House meeting with dozens of governors that he hoped to overhaul the American tax system but that was a “tiny little ant” compared to what he would need to do to remake the so-called Obamacare law.
Trump warns health care system will “implode” unless fixed
President Donald Trump warned Monday that the nation’s health care system was in danger of imploding and said Congress must make fundamental changes to the sweeping health law passed by his predecessor.
Trump urges insurers to work together to a save Americans from Obamacarea
Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini listen to U.S. President Donald Trump speak during a meeting with health insurance company CEOs. President Trump met with major health insurers Monday morning, in the midst of intensifying public pressure to preserve the law political divisions over how to best dismantle and replace President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement, the Affordable Care Act.
Trump calls for replacement of Obamacare
… 27, 2017, at the White House in Washington. WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump warned Monday that the nation’s health care system was in danger of imploding and said Congress must make fundamental changes to the sweeping health law passed by …
Trump budget plan boosts Pentagon, trims State Dept., EPA
The White House will send federal departments a budget proposal on Monday containing the defense spending increase President Donald Trump promised, financed partly by cuts to the U.S. State Department, Environmental Protection Agency and other non-defense programs, two officials familiar with the proposal said. One of the officials said Trump’s request for the Pentagon included more money for shipbuilding, military aircraft and establishing “a more robust presence in key international waterways and chokepoints” such as the Strait of Hormuz and South China Sea.
Details emerge of Republicansa plans to replace Obamacare
… President Barack Obama. Still to be worked out are details including the future of Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor that was expanded in more than 30 states under Obamacare, and how a new healthcare law would be funded. …
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The president is one to overreach for superlatives, whether describing the state of things as he found them or what he plans to do about them The president is one to overreach for superlatives, whether describing the state of things as he found them or what he plans to do about them Congress is facing tough decisions on health care and the Supreme Court that may help determine the course of Donald Trump’s presidency. Congress is facing tough decisions on health care and the Supreme Court that may help determine the course of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Latest ban on U.S. global health funding ignores science, researchers say
In a commentary published Feb. 22 in The New England Journal of Medicine , two School of Medicine scientists make a case for lifting the ban on U.S. aid to international groups that support abortion-related activities, saying the policy harms women and ultimately could hurt the country’s economic and security interests abroad. They argue that scientific evidence, not ideology, should guide policymaking in global health.
U.S. cigar lovers stock up on Cuba visits, fearing clampdown
A photographer takes a photograph of cigars on display at the 19th Habanos Festival in Havana, Cuba, February 27, 2017. Puffing on a cigar at Cuba’s annual Habanos cigar festival, American aficionado Paul Segal said he would buy as many boxes of cigars as he could carry home in case U.S. President Donald Trump tightens regulations on visitors to the communist-run island again.
Trump to lay out healthcare revamp details in speech to Congress
… want to repeal it completely. Still to be worked out are details including the future of Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor that was expanded in more than 30 states under Obamacare, and how a new healthcare law would be …
Trump budget plan boosts Pentagon, trims State Dept, EPA: officials
The White House on Monday will send federal departments a budget proposal containing the defense spending increase President Donald Trump promised, financed partly by cuts to the U.S. State Department, Environmental Protection Agency and other non-defense programs, two officials familiar with the proposal said. One of the officials said Trump’s request for the Pentagon included more money for shipbuilding, military aircraft and establishing “a more robust presence in key international waterways and chokepoints” such as the Strait of Hormuz and South China Sea.
Trump to Address Taxes, Health Care in Speech to Congress
President Donald Trump’s first budget will seek a sizable increase in military funding but won’t make changes to the largest future drivers of government spending: Social Security and Medicare.
Bill Paxton’s Death Showcases Dangers, Lessons for Heart Patients
… can occur at several steps along the way that could set the stage for a stroke, says Crandall, author of the Heart Health Report . One danger point occurs at the start of the surgery, when the heart’s aorta, which is the major cardiac vessel, is …
Social welfare to be spared in tax cuts
US President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal will spare big social welfare programmes such as Social Security and Medicare from any cuts, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says. Mnuchin said on Sunday that Trump would also use a major policy speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night to preview some elements of his sweeping plans to cut taxes for the middle class, simplify the tax system and make American companies more globally competitive with lower rates and changes to encourage US manufacturing.
Trump budget won’t cut welfare, Medicare
US President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal will not seek cuts in Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement federal benefits programs, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says. Mnuchin was asked on Fox News Channel’s Sunday Morning Futures program whether the Trump administration needed cuts in those areas.
Shannen Doherty playing ‘waiting game’ in cancer fight
Shannen Doherty has said she has finished chemotherapy and is playing the “waiting game” to see if she has beaten breast cancer. The former Beverly Hills, 90210 actress was diagnosed with the illness in 2015 and has been documenting her fight on social media.
The question for elected officials: Does it help working families?
… Mississippians deserve better, just like each and every American. Although the president claims he wants to extend health insurance to everyone and lower deductibles, his administration issued a regulation that will raise the cost of premiums, …
ACA replacement a growing concern
As Republicans try to unite around a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, one of the most popular parts of the law will be among the most difficult to replace: the guarantee of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.