… if you think of the problem as though Trump has rigged firebombs to destroy the Constitution in one location and health insurance for 20 million people in another, and opponents face the diabolical question of choosing which one to save: But the …
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LIVE: Obama’s farewell address
… president touted the results of his presidency, noting the lower unemployment rate, and millions of new recipients of health insurance covered under the Affordable Care Act. But Obama warned of the foreign and domestic threats to American democracy, …
Kennedy Jr tapped to head vaccine review
… e, who advises the federal panel that sets US vaccine policy, said the Kennedy news reinforces the concerns of public health officials, pediatricians and family doctors.
Act quickly on Obamacare: Trump
… rid of it. The law, popularly known as Obamacare, has enabled millions of previously uninsured Americans to obtain health insurance, but Republicans condemn it as a government overreach. With Trump set to succeed Obama on January 20, Republicans, …
Trump asks vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. to lead commission on ‘vaccine safety’
Donald Trump met Tuesday with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent skeptic of vaccines for children, and asked him to chair a new commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity, suggesting that the president-elect continues to believe a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Speaking to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, Kennedy said that Trump called him to request the meeting, and he accepted the position on the new commission.
RKF Jr., known for anti-vaccine views, named to Trump panel, he says
… cause autism ” is the title of a web page summing up that research. Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Georgia Congressman and orthopedist Tom Price, has not spoken about vaccines. However, he has spoken in …
Trump asks vaccine skeptic RFK Jr. to lead study on vaccine safety
… Kennedy, has promoted a documentary film linking autism to the vaccine preservative thimerosal and criticizing public health officials who dispute that claim. “They can put anything they want in that vaccine and they have no accountability for it,” …
Donald Trump asks vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. to lead…
Donald Trump met Tuesday with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent skeptic of vaccines for children, and asked him to chair a new commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity, suggesting that the president-elect continues to believe a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. Speaking to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday, Kennedy said that Trump called him to request the meeting, and he accepted the position on the new commission.
The Latest: Trump meets with Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic…
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The Latest: Trump meets with Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic
President-elect Donald Trump is meeting Tuesday with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, a vocal vaccination skeptic, about immunizations and vaccinations. Kennedy, son of former Attorney General and New York Sen. Robert Kennedy, is an environmental activist and heads the Waterkeeper group to protect rivers.
Trump meets with vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr.
Trump meets with vaccine skeptic Robert Kennedy Jr. President-elect has also suggested that vaccines can cause autism. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jqZmtA Donald Trump meets Tuesday with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the president-elect and longtime environmental activist will discuss what many regard as a public health conspiracy theory: vaccines.
The battles over Obama’s legacy begin
… has the power to repeal ACA, but political realities dictate that they can’t cut off millions from access to health insurance without replacing it with something comparable – or, as Trump vaguely has promised, “something terrific.” A lot of people …
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… WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress is poised to complete its initial step toward dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Republicans divided over how to replace it face pressure from Donald Trump for quick action. “We have a responsibility …
Obama: Calling it ‘TrumpCare’ fine; health law will survive GOP assault
President Obama said Sunday that he’s OK with Republicans making changes to his Affordable Care Act and even changing its name from “ObamaCare” to “TrumpCare.” Obama suggested that ObamaCare will survive Republicans’ efforts to repeal and replace his signature health care law.
Reince Priebus: Trump Will Keep Campaign Promise, Won’t ‘Meddle’ With Medicare, Social Security
President-elect Donald Trump won’t “meddle” with Medicare or Social Security, the incoming White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said Sunday. In an interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation,” the former head of the Republican National Committee said Trump is standing by his campaign vow on the two entitlement programs.
Trump Policies Will Likely Affect the Elderly and Special Needs Populations
… he plans to make this happen is something that has younger generations worried about the preservation of the fiscal health. For those who rely on Medicaid, block grants could go into effect, which could create profound changes for individual states, …
The Boobytrapped Presidency
… happen. Obamacare is an unpopular program that has become progressively more unpopular as its effects-more expensive health insurance and fewer choices-have become apparent. Yet the GOP, many of whose Representatives and Senators were elected …
Republicans Take Upper Hand in Fight to Defund Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, joined by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., right, and others, speaks during a news conference discussing women’s health care, Jan. 5, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The day after Thanksgiving, president-elect Donald Trump left Marjorie Dannenfelser a voicemail thanking her for the efforts of her volunteers, who knocked on more than one million doors on his behalf this election.
How will Congress act?
Well, folks, in the last day or two we got a glimpse of what we can look forward to with a Republican-controlled Congress emboldened by Donald Trump’s election: overreach and arrogance. The first thing they try to do is weaken oversight of ethics violations in the House.
President Obama gives preview of farewell address in weekly address
… up to half of Americans who have a preexisting condition, and secured new rights and protections for everybody with health insurance. Together, we’ve brought home most of our brave troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and took bin Laden and thousands …
The Latest: Obama calls for Trump to ‘get to work’ on Russia
More than 1,300 people in the Cadillac area lost power Tuesday night due to winter storm conditions. Consumers Energy representative Terry DeDoes said strong w… President Barack Obama says he hopes President-elect Donald Trump will “get to work” trying to prevent Russia from interfering again in a U.S. election.
Biggest winners of an Obamacare repeal: The young, healthy and rich
In one of the latest rounds of government-by-tweet, Donald Trump has once again revealed that he doesn’t have a clue about the markets for health care and health insurance. “Also, deductibles are so high that it is practically useless,” wrote the president-elect on Wednesday about health insurance policies sold on the Obamacare exchanges.
HHS bureaucracy mushrooms from $103 billion to $1.1 trillion
… of highly motivated reformers, like Rep. Tom Price to head up the largest department in the federal government, Health and Human Services, we should feel hopeful. But history and experience should also keep us sober. Change in Washington is very …
How to Repeal Obamacareby The EditorsOn health care, congressional…
The president-elect may not be chock-full of ideas about health-care policy, but he has the right political instincts. He has said that should be replaced, that its beneficiaries should not simply be stripped of coverage, and that people with pre-existing conditions should be protected.
GOP Shouldn’t Be Intimidated by Democrats’ Threats in Obamacare…
… to fulfill promises Donald Trump made to repeal the law while keeping parts of it – including the requirement that health coverage be given to people with pre-existing conditions and the provision allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ …
N.Y. estimates $3.7 billion loss from Obamacare repeal
N.Y. estimates $3.7 billion loss from Obamacare repeal About 2.7 million New Yorkers would lose health insurance, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2hYHdp3 Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff, following the primaries in six states June 7, 2016.
Ryan: GOP to ‘defund’ Planned Parenthood in Obamacare repeal
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday Republicans would strip federal dollars for Planned Parenthood as part of the GOP effort to repeal the health care law, prompting an outcry from the century-old organization and Democrats promising to fight the move. Ryan spoke a day after a special House panel issued a report criticizing the organization, which provides birth control, abortions and various women’s health services, for its practices regarding providing tissue from aborted fetuses to researchers.
The Latest: House to rebuke UN over Israeli settlements
… have “awakened a sleeping giant” in their efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The groups say repealing the health insurance law will require millions of women to pay more for health care, particularly for contraception and cancer screenings. …
The ‘Delicate Dance’ of Replacing Obamacare
Although the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is considered the most significant and comprehensive overhaul of the American health care system since the 1960s, when Medicaid and Medicare were established, it has been the target of reform virtually since its enactment in 2010. Last year, the words “repeal and replace” became the mantra of Republican congressional leaders looking to dismantle the legislation and was a key talking point for Donald Trump while on the campaign trail.
Obamacare’ repeal would hurt millions in NY
… “The cost of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, to state and local budgets and to the New Yorkers who depend on its health care coverage, is simply too high to justify,” “Since its implementation, the Affordable Care Act has become a powerful tool …
Trump tweets – be careful’ as Fla. Obamacare sign-ups surge 5%
… than last year at this time, it is clear that Americans want and need this vital coverage,” said U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell. Schumer says repeal without a replacement plan risks booting up to 30 million …
Poll: Voters in battleground states want Dems to check Trump
… to slashing environmental regulations on business. Yet voters across the map registered vehement disapproval of health-care cuts floated by Trump’s Cabinet designees and Republican allies in Congress such as House Speaker Paul Ryan. “This election …
Fully repealing Obamacare will cost $350 billion
President-elect Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans love to say how unaffordable Obamacare is. But completely repealing the health reform law would be pretty costly to the federal budget.
Will The GOP Congress Try To Tackle Drug Prices?
… in the program’s drug coverage that Obamacare gradually closed. Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Health Research, additionally said that the only way to make health insurance more affordable is to lower the underlying price of …
GOP set to dismantle Obama’s legacy
… a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with congressional Democrats and discuss strategy for saving the health care law. Vice President-elect Mike Pence will meet with Republicans. The House will vote on Tuesday on a rules package that …
Republicans primed for push to dismantle Obamaa s policies
… a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to meet with congressional Democrats and discuss strategy for saving the health care law. Vice President-elect Mike Pence will meet with Republicans. The House will vote on Tuesday on a rules package that …
Medicare launches revamp for heart attacks, hip fractures
… It’s unclear whether Donald Trump as president will continue the pace of change, slow down or even hit pause. Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee, orthopedic-surgeon-turned-congressman Tom Price, has expressed general concern that the …
In Dem reply, former KY gov says Trump would ‘rip’ away care new
Former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear took a populist tenor in Democrats’ formal response to President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday, 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 also assailed Trump for “ignoring serious threats to our national security from Russia, who’s not our friend, while alienating our allies.”
Medicare revamps coverage for heart attacks, hip fractures
… It’s unclear whether Donald Trump as president will continue the pace of change, slow down or even hit pause. Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee, orthopedic-surgeon-turned-congressman Tom Price, has expressed general concern that the …
EpiPen price outrage could bring more changes under Donald Trump
… their own, saying Mr. Trump should follow through on his promise to slash drug prices by allowing the Department of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug prices under Medicare and speeding generics to the market, among other reforms. Until Mr. …