Category: Donald Trump

Trump can surprise world by using hard and soft power equally

Donald Trump Dems call Trump spokesman a ‘shill’ for Putin Trump can surprise world by using hard and soft power equally Trump: CNN ‘used worst cover photo of me’ for book MORE will be a president who will focus on “hard power” to underpin his foreign policy goals rather than focusing on “soft power,” which was Obama’s preference. Both approaches are one-sided, though, and both are wrong.

Bloomberg View: Dona t stop pushing on Medicare payment reform

The quest to create a more rational health-care system took a dispiriting turn this month, when the federal government abandoned an effort to motivate doctors to use the best available drugs, rather than the costliest ones. What’s worrisome is that this could be the start of a more general retreat from payment reform in health care as the White House changes hands.

Report cites gains from Ohio’s Medicaid expansion

With President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans planning to repeal Obamacare, Gov. John Kasich’s administration released a report Friday saying that Ohio’s 2014 Medicaid expansion has improved the health and reduced financial hardships for hundreds of thousands of poor Ohioans.

Obama, Democrats to Consider Ways to Save Affordable Care Act

President Barack Obama will meet with Democrats in Congress on Wednesday to discuss ways to protect his signature health care law, which Republicans have threatened to repeal. The president and Democratic lawmakers hope to devise a strategy to delay the Republican-controlled House and Senate from repealing much of the Affordable Care Act without providing a replacement plan.

With Trumpa s victory, Republicans hope to overhaul Medicaid

In this file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, joined by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., heads to a meeting of House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington. When President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, Republicans will have the opportunity to do something they have desired for years – overhaul Medicaid, the program that provides health care to millions of lower-income and disabled Americans.

With Trump’s victory, GOP hopes to overhaul Medicaid

When President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, Republicans will have the opportunity to pull off something they have wanted to do for years – overhaul Medicaid, the program that provides health care to tens of millions of lower-income and disabled Americans. Any changes to the $500 billion-plus program hold enormous consequences not only for recipients but also for the states, which share in the cost.

Sanders will lead Democratic drive to organize rallies in every state against Medicare/Medicaid cuts

Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according… Senate Republicans refused to give President Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia even the courtesy of a… Bernie Sanders doing the Democratic Party job of persuading congressional colleagues to help organize nationwide pre-inaugural protest rallies over potential cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as other health matters Republicans are likely to take up in Congress come January.

Following Trump’s Victory, GOP Hopes to Overhaul Medicaid

In this August 1, 2013, file photo, Republican congressmen Paul Ryan and Tom Price talk before a committee hearing on Capitol Hill. Now House Speaker and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of health and human services want to overhaul Medicaid by sending a fixed amount of money each year to U.S. states.

Study: Free Market Solutions Should Replace Obamacare

Republicans vow to repeal the Affordable Care Act once Donald Trump is in the White House. The question becomes, what will replace it? “You can do all the things that Obamacare claims to do – cover people with pre-existing conditions, cover the uninsured – but does it in a way that puts patients and consumers in charge of their own healthcare dollars instead of the government or insurance companies.”

As Others See It: Don’t stop pushing on Medicare payment reform

The quest to create a more rational health care system took a dispiriting turn this month, when the federal government abandoned an effort to motivate doctors to use the best available drugs, rather than the costliest ones. What’s worrisome is that this could be the start of a more general retreat from payment reform in health care as the White House changes hands.

The mainstream media lies about vaccines just like they lied about Donald Trump

One of the “mainstream” media’s narratives since President-elect Donald J. Trump “unexpectedly” defeated their chosen candidate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, has been that the former was aided by “fake news” supplied to hundreds of legitimate news websites by the Russian government. That massive lie has since been exposed as fake news in and of itself , as Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, noted this week when he pointed out that the Washington Post , which originally published the story, has now backed away from the allegations.

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… is more commonly known as Obamacare, has been a polarizing law since Day One. The Kaiser Family Foundation’s (KFF) Health Tracking Poll, which has been taken nearly every month since the ACA was signed into law in March 2010, often finds more people …

Trump key economic adviser has stake in Momentive’s striking…

Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman among billionaires with major stakes in facility where management seeks further cuts to union workers, retirees Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman is interviewed in 2014 by Maria Bartiromo during her “Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo” program, on the Fox Business Network, in New York. President-elect Donald Trump on Dec. 2 announced the formation of an advisory group, led by Schwarzman, of more than a dozen CEOs and business leaders who will offer input on how to create jobs and speed economic growth.

Trump ally sparks outrage for wishing for Obama’s death

A Donald Trump ally has ignited widespread outrage after wishing for US President Barack Obama’s death and making racially charged comments about the first lady. Carl Paladino-a businessman who served as a co-chairman of the president-elect’s New York State election campaign-made the incendiary jabs in a year-end feature published on Friday in Artvoice, a weekly newspaper in upstate New York.

BC-US-Obama Legacy,ADVISORY, US

Few presidents have entered the White House carrying as many expectations as Barack Obama. The first black president and the first of his generation, Obama arrived promising to end wars, restore economic stability, improve health care, expand equality, reimagine our politics and, yes, bring new hope and change.

Mental health malfeasance

The 21st Century Cures Act signed by President Barack Obama contains smart, well-designed mental-health provisions. But unless President-elect Donald Trump and Tom Price, his nominee for secretary of health and human services, “drain the swamp” at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Center for Mental Health Services, many of the new law’s useful provisions could be negated or undone by the permanent bureaucracy.

Populism, real and phony

… Trump’s Cabinet choices show which way the wind is blowing. Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare. His choice as labor secretary is a …

Populism, real and phony

… Trump’s Cabinet choices show which way the wind is blowing. Both his pick as budget director and his choice to head Health and Human Services want to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and privatize Medicare. His choice as labor secretary is a …

Trump to meet with Boeing, Lockheed Martin CEOs on Wednesday

Dec 21 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was set to meet on Wednesday with Dennis Muilenburg, the chief executive of Boeing Co, and Marillyn Hewson, the CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp, two defense contractors he has questioned over project costs, a transition official said. Dec 21 A U.S. jury in Ohio on Wednesday ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from one of the company’s plants, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer Robert Bilott.

Activists Defend ACA, March To Republican Party Headquarters

A small but boisterous group marched from Capital Community College to the Connecticut Republican Party headquarters on Pratt Street Tuesday afternoon, chanting, singing and protesting what they called “President-elect Donald Trump and his allies’ massive attack on every aspect of our families’ health care.” Once they arrived at the statewide GOP headquarters about 5:30 p.m., organizer Dan Durso rang the bell to the GOP office several times, but no one answered.

A fiscal hawk to OMB

President-elect Donald Trump has named Rep. Mick Mulvaney as his director of the Office of Management and Budget, signaling his intent to slash spending and address the deficit as president. Mulvaney, 49, was elected to Congress in 2010 in the wave that brought a cohort of younger, staunchly conservative members into the House.