Add Medicaid expansion to the list of Obama-era health care provisions that Americans want to keep. A new poll finds that 8 in 10 say lawmakers should preserve federal funding that has allowed states to add coverage for some 11 million low-income people.
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Health law created winners and losers when buying insurance
Michael Schwarz is a self-employed business owner who buys his own health insurance. Subsidized coverage through “Obamacare” offers protection from life’s unpredictable changes and freedom to pursue his vocation, he says.
Slammed by the flu, U.S. businesses scramble to get work done
… seven, gets an influenza vaccine injection from nurse Maya Kahn-Woods during a flu shot clinic at Dorchester House, a health care clinic in Boston, Jan. 12, 2013. REUTERS/Brian Snyder NEW YORK (AP) – The flu season has slammed many small businesses, …
Support for Obamacare repeal has dipped since Donald Trump took office: Poll
… Action Network said it is spending $2.2 million on ads featuring a California mom who lost her doctor and preferred health plan under Obamacare. It builds on a previously announced, $5.2-million ad buy to promote the GOP’s repeal and replace …
Ap Fact Check: Trump’s view at odds with events of the week
… coming off. In his first month, Obama signed a $787 billion stimulus package into law, as well as a law expanding health care for children and the Lilly Ledbetter bill on equal pay for women. Trump has vigorously produced executive orders, which …
A night at the Rescue Mission of the Mahoning Valley
Now, for the first time in its 85 year history, the Mission’s building needs help. So, they’ve launched a campaign to move their facility.
U.S. uninsured rate hit record low last year
The nation’s uninsured rate tumbled further last year, hitting the lowest rate on record, according to new government data that underscored what is at stake in the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the first nine months of 2016, just 8.8 percent of Americans lacked health coverage, survey data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.
In defense of how Democrats have reacted to Trump as president
I’ve decided to take up smoking. By golly, I know it’s bad for me, but everybody has been so mean to those poor tobacco companies.
Ap Fact Check: The audacity of hype
… coming off. In his first month, Obama signed a $787 billion stimulus package into law, as well as a law expanding health care for children and the Lilly Ledbetter bill on equal pay for women. Trump has vigorously produced executive orders, which …
Why Donald Trump and the GOP Can’t Repeal Obamacare
After Donald Trump campaigned for the presidency on the promise to repeal and replace Obamacare with ” something terrific ,” his administration has just released a set of tweaks to the health care law-and those tweaks all favor the insurance industry over ordinary Americans. The Affordable Care Act , which the GOP gleefully dubbed Obamacare, is clearly not good enough to serve all Americans well.
Trump’s Timeline with Russia: Stranger Than Fiction
Dan Rather recently remarked about the current Russia scandal rocking Washington, “If a scriptwriter had approached Hollywood with what we are witnessing, he or she would probably have been told it was way too far-fetched for even a summer blockbuster.” 1987 -Donald Trump meets with then-U.S.S.R. communist government officials in Moscow to discuss a joint partnership deal to build a hotel in the city.
Health Highlights: Feb. 17, 2017
More deadly heat waves, catastrophic food shortages, and the rapid spread of some infectious diseases are all in the world’s future due to climate change, experts warned Thursday at the Climate & Health Meeting. The meeting, held at the Carter Center in Atlanta, was organized to replace a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention climate change conference that was canceled in January, ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, CNN reported.
As Our Leaders Live Longer, Calls for Presidential Dementia Testing Grow Louder
… a quarter of American adults, Trump is on a statin for high cholesterol. He also takes a daily baby aspirin for heart health, an occasional antibiotic for rosacea , a skin condition, and Propecia , a pill to promote hair growth. Bornstein also told …
The Latest: Mulvaney says health law made care unaffordable
White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney says it’s unfair to compare how many people would have health insurance under the new Republican plan to “Obamacare.”
Trump nominee has decried Medicaid for fostering dependency
In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Seema Verma, left, then President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, gets on an elevator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Verma, the businesswoman selected by President Donald Trump to oversee Medicaid, the health care program for 74 million low-income Americans, has said the program is structurally flawed at its core by policies that burden states and foster dependency in the poor.
This Week in Quotes
… because the institution accepted $100 million – the largest gift in its history, being put to purely philanthropic health-care purposes – from someone whose political views are at odds with your own. Imagine what it must be like to feel that doing …
Fact Check: Trump’s messy case that he inheriteda
… the promise of tax and regulatory cuts. When Trump assumed office last month, a greater percentage of the country had health insurance, incomes were rising and the country was adding jobs. The Trump administration has noted that a smaller proportion …
Trump names Acosta Labor nominee; Mulvaney sworn in as OMB chief
… presidency on mixed loyalties in the White House. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the government’s major health insurance programs says maternity coverage should be optional for patients. President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the government’s …
US uninsured rate hit record low last year
The nation’s uninsured rate tumbled further last year, hitting the lowest rate on record, according to new government data that underscored what is at stake in the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the first nine months of 2016, just 8.8 percent of Americans lacked health coverage, survey data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.
Fox, New Regency Use Fake News to Promote Upcoming Thriller…
According to Buzzfeed News , the campaign used five fake local news sites to promote the film directed by Gore Verbinski. While inserting references to the film into hoax stories, the fake news sites also hosted ads for the film and promoted a fake water brand linked to the film.
Anti-abortion activists, counter-protesters rally around US
… pink signs that read, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.” “They do a lot of work to help women with reproductive health – not just abortions, obviously – but they help with birth control and cancer screenings and counseling and a whole variety of …
AARP lays down marker on Medicare
Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly vowed to protect Medicare because so many older Americans depend on the federal program to help cover their health-care costs. One of the most influential senior lobbying groups wants to remind Trump of his promise.
What are Republicans going to do about Obamacare? ‘No idea.’
… Bill O’Reilly, Trump said that “maybe it’ll take till sometime into next year” for his administration to unveil a new health care plan. It is, the president said, “very complicated.” So complicated, in fact, that he apparently wants nothing to do …
GOP lawmakers face angry constituents at town halls
The voter identified himself as a cancer survivor, and he had something to say to Republican Rep. Justin Amash : “I am scared to death that I will not have health insurance in the future.” The comment earned 61-year-old retiree Paul Bonis a standing ovation from the crowd packed into a school auditorium in Amash’s Michigan district Thursday night.
Anti-abortion activists, counter-protesters rally around US
… read, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.” “They do a lot of work to help women with reproductive health – not just abortions, obviously – but they help with birth control and cancer screenings and counseling and a whole variety …
Anti-abortion activists, counter-protesters rally around U.S.
… pink signs that read, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.” “They do a lot of work to help women with reproductive health – not just abortions, obviously – but they help with birth control and cancer screenings and counseling and a whole variety of …
Sanders, Schumer call on senators to lead nationwide health care rallies
… said in a joint statement Saturday. “The American people increasingly understand that throwing 20 million people off health insurance, privatizing Medicare, raising prescription drug costs for seniors and doing away with life-and-death patient …
Activists on both sides of abortion issue protest across the US
Antiabortion groups have called demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the women’s health provider of federal funding. Antiabortion activists have said they were energized by the election of Republican Trump, who selected their long-time ally Mike Pence as vice president and nominated conservative jurist Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Democrats Can Win White Working Class Voters Without Sacrificing Social Justice
… $40K-50K a year in small town Americapeople who make too much for even expanded Medicaid but not enough to afford health insurance, whose children can’t win need-based scholarships but don’t have the grades to earn merit-based ones, and whose towns …
Activists on both sides of abortion issue to protest across U.S
Anti-abortion groups have called demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the women’s health provider of federal funding. Anti-abortion activists have said they were energized by the election of Republican Trump, who selected their long-time ally Mike Pence as vice president and nominated conservative jurist Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
It’s time to light up a new federal tobacco policy
… but ultimately misguided Obama-era policies. The key is to embrace a “harm-reduction” approach to public health policy. Tobacco harm reduction recognizes that some folks find quitting their addiction to nicotine nearly impossible. But the emergence …
Without health law, addicts could have the most to lose
A patient gets a check up at at the Manchester Community Health Center in Manchester, N.H., Feb. 8, 2017. As the debate over the fate of the health law intensifies, proponents have focused on the lifesaving care it has brought to people in mental health and addiction treatment, vastly expanding access to those services by designating them as “essential benefits.”
Activists on both sides of abortion issue to protest across US
Anti-abortion groups have called demonstrations at more than 200 Planned Parenthood locations throughout the United States on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the women’s health provider of federal funding. Pro-life and pro-choice activists gather at the Supreme Court for the National March for Life rally in Washington January 27, 2017.
‘This guy lies all of the time!’: Bernie Sanders rails…
… cabinet who want to see such programs cut. When asked about Democrats who have questioned whether Trump has mental health issues , Sanders said that he’s never attacked Trump for being mentally ill. “I called him delusional when he claimed there …
Protests erupt across the United States over Planned Parenthood funding
… pink signs that read, “I stand with Planned Parenthood.” “They do a lot of work to help women with reproductive health – not just abortions, obviously – but they help with birth control and cancer screenings and counselling and a whole variety of …
Thanking Justice Roberts
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case which held that the “penalty” for not buying health insurance was actually a “tax” and therefore constitutional.
Price nears Senate confirmation as Trump health secretary
Republicans are ready to overpower Democrats and push another of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees through the Senate, the man who will help lead the GOP drive to erase and replace the health care law.
US officials stop vetting Nauru refugees for resettlement
In this Sept. 21, 2001, file photo, men shave, brush their teeth and prepare for the day at a refugee camp on the Island of Nauru.
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… Act during a 90-minute primetime debate on CNN Tuesday. President Donald Trump has promised to repeal and replace the health care law, often referred to as Obamacare, while Democrats have vowed to defend former President Barack Obama’s landmark …
Cruz, Sanders face off on Obamacare
Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders — two senators with diametrically opposed views of government’s role in health care — are facing off at a CNN town hall debate over the future of Obamacare. The event, moderated by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, is certain to highlight the many challenges surrounding efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act — a sweeping health care law that covers some 20 million Americans.