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HHS Nominee Tom Price Targeted Panel That Urged Fewer Cancer Screenings

If the last few years are any guide, one group that may find itself in the crosshairs of Rep. Tom Price, President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is an influential panel of medical experts. The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, a group of mostly physician and academics from top universities, reviews medical practices to see whether they are supported by research and evidence.

Reality show comparisons in Trump announcement inescapable

President Donald Trump’s past life as a television showman provided an irresistible comparison for the media covering his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump’s announcement from the White House on Tuesday had a prime-time slot with broadcast and cable news networks all on hand, genuine suspense over the choice and, finally, the big reveal when Gorsuch and his wife, Louise, emerged from a doorway at the host’s – make that the president’s – request.

Uncertain future for Californiaa s anti-smog efforts: Thomas Elias

Cases of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are down about three percent over the last 40 years in California, even as state population is up by well over one-third, better than 15 million, and far more smog-belching vehicles than ever clog the roads. This is a major public health achievement, and the single biggest reason behind it is the 45-year-old federal Clean Air Act and its provisions for California waivers.

Commentary: Trump and Obama’s legacy

… to go down in history. Obamacare was passed into law to give some 20 million Americans the opportunity to purchase health Insurance through private Insurance companies subsidized by the Federal government. But from the start it wasn’t presented …

Rep. Doggett encouraging people to sign up for healthcare

In an effort to get people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Congressman Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, stopped by the Foundation Communities office in Central Austin Monday to spread the word. While at the center, Doggett talked about the future of the ACA now that Republicans have vowed to repeal it.

Is it still worth signing up for Obamacare?

Chief among them is that the last day to enroll for health care insurance in 2017 is Tuesday, Jan. 31. Second, despite the confusion about Obamacare’s future, people who sign up before the deadline will lock in coverage for the year, as well their tax subsidies. What happens to the law into 2018 remains unclear, however.

Obamacare enrollment deadline Tuesday

… boost in enrollment this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports. In mid-December, enrollment in health exchange plans was up 3 percent from the same time period the previous year. U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, proposed a …

Guess Who Can’t Wait for Trumpcare?

… hasn’t been a particularly popular law since its passage in March 2010. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll, which has been conducted on a near-monthly basis since Obamacare’s passage, just a handful of months have …

John Stoehr: How free are we in the shadow of monopoly?

I had planned to write a column about the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, and how Connecticut should not wait around for Washington to act. President Donald Trump , on his first day in office, signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to “waive, defer, grant exceptions from or delay” any part of the health care law that imposes “financial or regulatory burdens” on anyone subject to it.

Banned from the U.S.: ‘You need to go back to your country’

Hameed Khalid Darweesh, center, a former interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq, speaks after his release from detention during a protest outside John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Jan. 28, 2017. Reactions were divided after President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday banning refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.

Everything you need to know about Trump’s executive actions so far

President Trump has been in office for a week and has taken advantage of his executive powers by beginning to craft and impose his administration’s policies. Seven days into his first term, Mr. Trump has issued more than a dozen executive actions, which include a government-wide freeze on new and pending regulations, the reinstatement of a policy that bars U.S. funding to health providers abroad that discuss abortion as an option and a call for the construction of a physical wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Obamacare Repeal Could Threaten Provisions That Help Older Adults

Republican lawmakers meeting in Philadelphia this week say they want their replacement of Obamacare to be done by spring. There is no consensus on a plan yet, but several Republicans in Congress have already circulated proposals that could reduce or eliminate features of the federal health law that have benefited older Americans.

NORC Poll: Broad worries about potentiala

Though “Obamacare” still divides Americans, a majority worry that many will lose coverage if the 2010 law is repealed in the nation’s long-running political standoff over health care. AP-NORC Poll: Broad worries about potential health care loss WASHINGTON – Though “Obamacare” still divides Americans, a majority worry that many will lose coverage if the 2010 law is repealed in the nation’s long-running political standoff over health care.

Republicans Are Starting to Worry About ‘Trumpcare’

The Save My Care Rally on the steps of New York City Hall, Make the Road New York issues “Safeguarding Immigrant Coverage” a report on benefits of health insurance for immigrants and joins national effort to oppose repeal of the Affordable Care Act. That was the phrase used in a closed-door meeting among House Republicans to discuss concern that the yet-to-be-legislated Obamacare replacement could create political liabilities in the 2018 election if voters lose their health insurance or if the repeal destabilizes the health care market.

Guest opinion: Repeal and replac…

… status quos; but rather a new approach that puts you – the patient – first, and brings choice and competition to health insurance. Patients, doctors, and businesses have been dealing with the failures of Obamacare since it was enacted. Millions of …

Affordable Care Act enrollment ongoing, despite Trump pulling ads

Despite the Trump administration recently pulling the plug on all advertisements and marketing for the Affordable Care Act’s current open enrollment period, anyone can still sign up for health care insurance under the law through the end of the month. Erin Knot, the Michigan director for Enroll America, doesn’t expect anyone would lose their coverage immediately if Republican lawmakers carry out their promise to repeal Obamacare this year.

politicsGOP Admits There Will Be No ACA Replacementa oeThere’s no single …

The history of the development of the Republican alternative to Obamacare since the beginning of the health-care debate, in 2009, has been an endless loop of loud promises that a full plan will be announced soon, followed by quiet admissions that it will not. Seventeen days ago , Donald Trump promised a vote to repeal the law “probably some time next week” with a vote for a replacement “very quickly or simultaneously, very shortly thereafter.”

Majority of primary care docs oppose repeal of Obamacare: Survey

A majority of primary care doctors oppose full repeal of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine . Researchers polled 426 internal medicine physicians, pediatricians, geriatricians and family doctors and found that only 15 percent agree with a complete dismantling of the controversial health reform law known as Obamacare.

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Event organizer Bud Porter delivers a speech Wednesday on his support for affordable health care before delivering a written statement to U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess’ Lake Dallas office. About 40 people piled into the office of U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess in Lake Dallas on Wednesday to deliver written statements and demand a meeting with the congressman to discuss the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Fight against Alzheimera s must be kept up

… 2014; in 2015, Congress passed a $350 million increase for Alzheimer’s disease research at the National Institutes of Health. Importantly, a $400 million increase was pending before the 114th Congress for FY17, and will now need action by the 115th …

Fight against Alzheimera s must be kept up

… 2014; in 2015, Congress passed a $350 million increase for Alzheimer’s disease research at the National Institutes of Health. Importantly, a $400 million increase was pending before the 114th Congress for FY17, and will now need action by the 115th …