… today Lamar Alexander again expressed his opposition (he did so in November too). Alexander is the Chair of the key health care committee in the Senate. Then came Bob Corker saying not to repeal the Obamacare taxes before there was a replacement (a …
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BWW Review: Richard Nelson’s the Gabriels Comes to Kennedy Center By Way of the Public Theater
… theatrical experience. We see people just like us experiencing life-altering experiences just as we do (the declining health of a parent, the loss of a spouse, economic downturn etc.) set against the backdrop of a changing – and often mystifying – …
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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 …
Sanders’ weapon against GOP entitlement reform: Trump
Bernie Sanders Sunday called on President-elect Trump to promise to veto any GOP legislation to cut Medicare, Social Security, or Medicaid, using Trump’s position on retirement programs to try to blunt GOP entitlement reform. In a statement, the Vermont senator and former Democratic presidential candidate seized on the assertion that Trump doesn’t want to “meddle” with Medicare or Social Security, made earlier in the day by incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus.
Watch: Celebrities Bid Farewell to Obama in Emotional Tribute Video
… Affordable Care Act as the most memorable moment of Obama’s presidency: “Because I have relatives that can’t afford health insurance, so it was really a great thing to know that if something happened to them, they could get cared for.” “When I was …
Cut Dependence On Government
West Virginia’s U.S. senators, Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito, share one concern about proposals to repeal and replace the Obamacare program. It is that those who have become dependent on it not be cut off from health insurance.
GOP Tries to Bury Cost of Trillion-Dollar Obamacare Repeal
… thereon- (A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010; (B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and …
Planned Parenthood To Be DE-FUNDED After All
… has opposed past efforts. The vast majority of federal money that Planned Parenthood does receive funds preventive health care, birth control, pregnancy tests, breast cancer screening and other women’s health care services. Democrats also point out …
Medicare Failed To Recover Up To $125 Million In Overpayments From Private Insurers
A Medicare Advantage plan run by Independence Blue Cross, headquartered in Philadelphia, was among those audited for overcharging by the federal government. Six years ago, federal health officials were confident they could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually by auditing private Medicare Advantage insurance plans that allegedly overcharged the government for medical services.
Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch
Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to reporters about preserving the Affordable Care Act with fellow Democrats from both the House and Senate after a meeting with President Obama at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 4 in Washington, D.C. “Look, you can’t simply go around to wealthy people’s homes raising money and expect to win elections,” the Vermont senator, who gave Clinton a surprisingly strong run for the Democratic nomination, told NPR’s David Greene in an interview airing on Morning Edition. “You’ve got to go out and mix it up and be with ordinary people.”
Government by Faculty Lounge Subject to Repealby Michael…
… as his inferiors has not been his style. Nor has he ever seemed interested in the content of laws, even his trademark health-care legislation. His February 2010 decision to move forward on Obamacare despite the election of Republican senator Scott …
Ryan: GOP to ‘Defund’ Planned Parenthood in Obamacare Repeal
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Senate OKs first step to repeal Obamacare despite some GOP misgivings
The Senate early Thursday passed a measure to take the first step forward on dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law, responding to pressure to move quickly even as Republicans and President-elect Trump grapple with what the replace it with. The nearly party-line 51-48 vote came on a nonbinding Republican-backed budget measure that eases the way for action on subsequent repeal legislation as soon as next month.
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. …
What Obamacare could be replaced with under Trump
… not sitting well with some in Congress, particularly a few top GOP senators. Senator Lamar Alexander, who chairs the health committee, said if the process is rushed, harm may be done or mistakes made. These senators would like to wait until a more …
Darrell Issa Proposes ‘Tort Reform’ To Replace Obamacare
Rep. Darrell Issa asserted on Sunday that part of the solution for replacing President Barack Obama’s health care law is to give patients fewer rights when suing doctors for malpractice. During a panel discussion on CNN’s State of the Union , Delaware Democratic Representative-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester pointed out that many of her constituents relied on the Affordable Care Act.
Reopened Capitol, big to-do list await Minnesota Legislature
… and the Republican-controlled Legislature to do. First up: Extend some financial help to shoppers on the individual health insurance market who face massive premium increases. Rate hikes of as much as 67 percent for those who aren’t covered through …
US lawmakers press pharma firm on high prices for antibiotic
Two US lawmakers are questioning whether Heritage Pharmaceuticals misled them in response to a 2014 congressional inquiry about the rising price a common antibiotic, after 20 US states this week accused the company of price fixing. In a Dec. 16 letter to Heritage seen by Reuters, Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said they feared the company was “disingenuous at best” in October, 2014, when it told them it had not seen any significant price increases for its doxycycline hyclate product.
Rural New Mexico exports mentoring model for physicians
… opioids, while many prescription addicts have transitioned to cheaper heroin. Under the ECHO Act, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department – which oversees Medicare and Medicaid – will review the mentoring programs and look at ways they could …
Undaunted by GOP control, Dayton plots how to seal a legacy
… Press in an interview this week. “I don’t intend to fade quietly into the dusk.” The 69-year-old governor said his health is back on track after several hip and back surgeries throughout his time in office and a health scare this spring – a brief …
Prognosis for Rx in 2017: more painful drug-price hikes
… his campaign about allowing Medicare to negotiate directly for prices on prescription drugs, something the federal health care plan for seniors can’t currently engage in. He also said he wants to allow Americans to buy drugs from other countries, …
Drug prices expected to soar 12 percent in 2017
… his campaign about allowing Medicare to negotiate directly for prices on prescription drugs, something the federal health care plan for seniors can’t currently engage in. He also said he wants to allow Americans to buy drugs from other countries, …
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.
Letters on Cal Thomas, liberals, Medicaid expansion, national debt
As usual, columnist Cal Thomas supported Donald Trump and made light of anything that has to do with either Barack or Michelle Obama . He rebutted a statement Michelle Obama made to Oprah Winfrey about how “we are feeling what not having hope feels like.”
Consumer Confidential: Insulin price hikes aren’t sweet – Sun, 25 Dec 2016 PST
A key feature of Republican plans to replace Obamacare is allowing market forces to boost innovation and competition among health care providers. “Unleashing the power of choice and competition is the best way to lower health care costs and improve quality,” declares House Speaker Paul Ryan in his conservative manifesto “A Better Way.”
California’s regulations and high taxes hurt its health care rankings
… repealing and replacing it with a plan more to President-elect Donald Trump’s liking, is still very murky. But major health care policy changes are expected, and whatever emerges from Congress is probably going to put more responsibility on …
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.
Connecticut Senator urges airlines to ban e-cigarettes from planes
As travel picks up for the holiday season, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal is looking to keep e-cigarettes from being allowed on planes, according to a report from the Hill.
Repealing key parts of Obamacare could be easy, but replacing it might be a mess
The Republican-dominated Congress that starts its 2017 work Jan. 3 is determined to repeal Obamacare – and fast. Yet consumers may not notice any difference in their health care coverage for a long time.
Democrats
… cuts. Schumer promised “some heck of a hearing” for Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), President-elect Trump’s nominee to be Health and Human Services secretary. Schumer and Sanders both pointed out that while Trump campaigned on a promise to not touch …