Category: Donald Trump

Medicaid takes center stage as Democrats grill Tom Price

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump was emphatic that it is the government’s responsibility to ensure that poor Americans can get the health care they need. But in Trump’s first days as president, it is becoming increasingly clear that he and his administration are open to making drastic changes to Medicaid – a move that could make it difficult for Trump to fulfill his impassioned campaign promise to take care of the poor.

Trump expands anti-abortion ban to all US global health aid

President Donald Trump has massively expanded the ban on providing federal money to international groups that perform abortions, or provide abortion information, to all organizations receiving U.S. global health assistance. Trump’s memorandum reinstituting anti-abortion requirements on family planning groups directs top U.S. officials for the first time to extend those requirements “to global health assistance furnished by all departments or agencies.”

HIGHLIGHTS-The Trump presidency on Jan. 24

… and heads of the commerce, housing and transportation departments. Representative Tom Price, Trump’s nominee for health secretary, tells a Senate panel he wants to ensure people with pre-existing conditions have access to insurance and does not …

Official confident Trump could clear Kansas Medicaid program

Susan Mosier, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, speaks to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, responding to a report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that Kansas’ Medicaid program is “substantively out of compliance” with U.S. law. less Susan Mosier, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, speaks to the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, responding to a report from the Centers for Medicare … more TOPEKA, Kan.

WashU Experts: The First 100 Days

… have recognized that environmental protection benefits all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, and that the health risks posed by pollution threaten us all. With respect to climate change, we cannot afford to tread water or retrench. …

Facing skeptical lawmakers, state officials strike at critical KanCare report

The agency that oversees KanCare on Monday called a scathing federal report against the Medicaid program incomplete and criticized the quality of its analysis under intense questioning by lawmakers. Susan Mosier, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, defended the program and its employees in a tense appearance before the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee.

President Trump’s top six targets

… Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care on Friday. Picture: Evan Vucci/AP During an appearance on Fox News Sunday , Priebus also said that Trump was feeling the …

Trump looks to steady ship after fraught start

… actions designed to get back to Trump’s agenda. Already there have been moves to roll-back President Barack Obama’s health care reforms and freeze some regulations in the pipeline. A pledge to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem …

With executive order, Trump tosses a “bomb” into fragile health insurance markets

President Donald Trump’s new executive order instructing federal agencies to grant relief to constituencies affected by the Affordable Care Act has begun to reverberate throughout the nation’s health-care system, injecting further uncertainty into an already unsettled insurance landscape. The political signal of the order, which Trump signed Friday just hours after being sworn into office, was clear: Even before the Republican-led Congress acts to repeal the 2010 law, the new administration will move swiftly to unwind as many elements as it can on its own – elements that have changed how 20 million Americans get health coverage and what benefits insurers must offer some of their customers.

Freedom Of Choice

No more mandate: Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said President Donald Trump “may stop enforcing the individual mandate.” Separately, on CBS’ “Face the Nation” show, she reiterated Republican promises that no one would lose their health insurance under Obamacare while a replacement is being developed.

With executive order, Trump tosses a ‘bomb’ into fragile health insurance markets

The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as “Obamacare”, outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on Oct. 4, 2013. President Donald Trump’s new executive order instructing federal agencies to grant relief to constituencies affected by the Affordable Care Act has begun to reverberate throughout the nation’s health care system, injecting further uncertainty into an already unsettled insurance landscape.

The Damage Done: A Media Addiction

… I voted for Donald Trump because I wanted to see change in our country. One change I didn’t want to see was access to health care at Planned Parenthood blocked. But Republican congressional leaders have already promised to do just that, with a …

Trump Adviser Kellyanne Conway Says Obamacare – Penalty’ Will End

Kellyanne Conway, a key adviser to President Donald Trump, said the new administration plans to end the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most people have health insurance, a step that could destabilize the law’s markets. Conway, in an interview airing Sunday on NBC News’ “Sunday Today With Willie Geist,” appeared to indicate that the law’s requirement that most employers offer coverage to their full-time workers would also end.

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As President Donald Trump steps into the Oval Office, a number of issues loom large, but one may stand out head and shoulders above the pack: the United States’ growing national debt. According to the USDebtClock.org, the national debt is rapidly closing in on $20 trillion, which works out to more than $61,300 for every man, woman, and child in the U.S. and nearly $167,000 for every taxpayer in the country.

Trump order paves way for agencies to weaken health law

Cathey Park of Cambridge, Massachusetts wears a cast for her broken wrist with “I Love Obamacare” written upon it prior to U.S. President Barack Obama’s arrival to speak about health insurance at Faneuil Hall in Boston October 30, 2013. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque President Donald Trump is ordering federal agencies to undermine Obamacare through regulatory action, a move that could weaken enforcement of the requirement for Americans to buy health coverage and give insurers leeway to drop some benefits.

How Trump’s executive order impacts future of ‘Obamacare’

President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care, Friday, Jan, 20, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. less President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care, Friday, Jan, 20, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in … more WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump ‘s f irs t executive order targets the sweeping “Obamacare” law by giving federal agencies broad leeway to chip away at the measure.

Trump opponents decry ‘Klansman’ at rally

As protesters Saturday juxtaposed the new commander-in-chief with Hitler, and passed literature that described him as “a suit-and-tie Klansman,” a clearly agitated motorist rolled down his car window and told the group to “Let it go.” The driver was speaking about demonstrations throughout the country opposing President Donald Trump, whose tenure in the Oval Office was just one day old.

Trump opens first full day on job at church

… under the Affordable Care Act , which might include enforcement of the penalty for people who fail to carry the health insurance that the law requires of most Americans. President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Friday giving federal …

Trump signs executive order that could gut Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate

President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Friday giving federal agencies broad powers to unwind regulations created under the Affordable Care Act, which might include enforcement of the penalty for people who fail to carry the health insurance that the law requires of most Americans. The executive order, signed in the Oval Office as one of the new president’s first actions, directs agencies to grant relief to all constituencies affected by the sprawling 2010 health care law: consumers, insurers, hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, states and others.

#DonaldTrump signs first order on Obamacare

… programs while developing “a free and open market in interstate commerce for the offering of healthcare services and health insurance.” Health experts had speculated that Trump could expand exemptions from the so-called individual mandate, which …

WNBA players starting to invest in food industry

With their big three all back in the fold, the La Marque Cougars got off to fast start and never let up in an 84-47 win against the Hitchcock Bulldogs in front of an electric home crowd Friday. A vote this week by a majority of the county commissioners court to hold off on implementing new rules governing game rooms was a wise move.