South Texas Fights Tuberculosis One Blood Test At A Time

August 4, 2017 News

Texas has one of the highest rates of TB among U.S. states. A sweeping effort is underway, largely funded by Medicaid, to diagnose and treat people who don't know they harbor the lung infection.
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Interior Department watchdog to investigate threat to Alaska senator on healthcare

August 4, 2017 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Interior Department's inspector general said it would investigate a reported threat by the agency's head, Ryan Zinke, against Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski's state of Alaska last week over her opposition to her party's efforts to repeal Obamacare.
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Interior Department investigating Zinke for reportedly threatening senators over Trumpcare votes

August 4, 2017 climate, health care, News, politics, Trump administration

The Interior Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has launched a “preliminary investigation” over reports that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke threatened to pull funding from Alaskan energy projects if Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) didn’t vote in support of President Donald Trump’s health care proposal.

“The OIG is undertaking a preliminary investigation into this matter,” Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall sai...

Trump turns on GOP Congress

August 4, 2017 News

President Trump is firing pointed criticism at the GOP Congress, ripping lawmakers for sending him a Russian sanctions bill he hates while failing to negotiate an ObamaCare repeal bill.

Recess just started for Congress, and it’s not going to be much fun for Republicans

August 4, 2017 News

The Senate headed home with Obamacare still around, a tax overhaul stalled and a GOP left with no major legislative accomplishments to show constituents.

Military figures are taking over Trump’s administration

August 3, 2017 Donald Trump, News, politics, World

As players within President Donald Trump’s administration have come and gone, one institution has benefited perhaps more than any other — the military.

On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions named Gen. Mark S. Inch as the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), days after Gen. John Kelly moved from his position as secretary of Homeland Security to be White House Chief of Staff. Trump’s Cabinet at one point contained three generals —Kelly, Secretary of Defense Jame...

New Hampshire officials blast Trump’s ‘drug-infested den’ comment

August 3, 2017 News, topNews

(Reuters) - New Hampshire officials from both parties lashed out on Thursday after a report that U.S. President Donald Trump called their state a "drug-infested den," with several saying his push to repeal Obamacare would worsen the nation's opioid crisis.
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Bill Moyers On Working With LBJ To Pass Medicare 52 Years Ago

August 3, 2017 News

Journalist Bill Moyers once worked as the special assistant to President Johnson, where he witnessed first-hand the political maneuvering that resulted in the landmark health care legislation.

Tweet first, read later: Trump shares article blaming his policies for health care price increases

August 3, 2017 Donald Trump, health care, News, politics

On Thursday morning, President Trump retweeted a tweet from his favorite morning show about how “Insurers [are] seeking huge premium hikes on ObamaCare plans.” Had Trump read the article, however, he would’ve seen that the story Fox & Friends highlighted on its program actually blamed him for those rate hikes.

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Trump harshly attacks Republican Congress, echoing criticism of Russian prime minister

August 3, 2017 News

President Donald Trump parroted Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Thursday morning, blaming Congress for what he called a “very dangerous low” in U.S. Russia relations.

Trump signed new sanctions, which passed Congress with a veto-proof majority, into law Wednesday. The White House lobbied against the sanctions after the bill passed the Senate, and when Trump signed the bill into law, he released a statement expressing his concerns with the legislation.

The law both impo...