Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump meets with Republican leaders including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , center, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy at the White House. In other words, those who know anything about health care hate it.
Category: Illinois
Local reaction to GOP health care bill: ‘Very ugly’
It’s “very ugly.” It would leave many in Illinois without health coverage, and it stands to end Medicaid as America knows it, according to some of the reactions to the House Republican bill to replace Obamacare.
Courtesy: AFSCME Council 31
… means the Governor cannot impose his terms on them, which include a 100-percent increase in employee costs for health care that would cost the average state worker $10,000, and an end to basic safeguards against privatization plans. The court …
Gov. Rauner wants more Medicaid clients on managed care
… evidence of success. Illinois began moving Medicaid patients to managed care in 2011. Managed care pays insurers and health networks fixed per-patient fees instead of paying separately for each treatment or test.
Hultgren’s turn to draw heat as constituents seek town hall meeting
… ire has centered on a Republican efforts to repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which allowed more people access to health care insurance. “The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out …
Millions expected to lose health insurance with repeal
More than 20 million people are expected to lose their health insurance coverage within a year following President Donald Trump’s executive order to repeal the Affordable Care Act Jan. 20. According to a report conducted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , the uninsured rate had fallen to the lowest level on record since the ACA was passed in 2010. In addition, millions of Americans with employer, Medicaid, Medicare or individual market coverage benefited from the protections of the act.
Trump gives Illinois man $10,000 to help pay for dad’s cancer treatment
STONINGTON – A 24-year-old single dad from Illinois not only got front row seats to Donald Trump’s inauguration eve concert, he got some “extra fight” for his cancer-stricken father. Shane Bouvet, a Trump campaign volunteer from Stonington, met Trump before a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after the Secret Service escorted him backstage.
Ambition isn’t always blind
On a fairly regular basis back in the day, state Sen. Barack Obama would walk up to the Senate press box and bum cigarettes off me. That was when people could smoke in the Senate chambers and back when both of us smoked.
Land Between the Lakes Bison Auction to be held January 28th
Land Between the Lakes, KY/TN – A public auction to reduce the size of bison herds in Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area will be held on Saturday, January 28th. The sale will begin at 9:00am CST at the Elk & Bison Prairie corral.