Some HIV-positive patients in Missouri will lose critical health coverage in 2018, thanks to high costs and little marketplace competition. Many of the affected individuals live in rural areas, where access to health care is already limited.
According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, about 95 patients in 51 counties will lose coverage starting January 1. The state has begun notifying the patients of this change, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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Month: December 2017
House set to pass tax bill as Trump awaits first big legislative victory
Bill that would add more than $1tn to deficit, end key element of Obamacare, and open Alaska wildlife reserve to drilling would then head to Senate
House Republicans are poised to pass a major tax bill on Tuesday, which would set the stage for Donald Trump to achieve his first major legislative success in office.
The legislation, finalized in a conference report last week, would lower the top rate on families and individuals to 37% and the top rate on corporations to 21%.
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GOP senator says must-pass funding bill to include ObamaCare fix
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) says that his bipartisan ObamaCare insurer fix will be added to a government funding bill this week, potentially setting up a showdown with House conservatives who oppose the measure....
Alabama is first state to freeze enrollment to Children’s Health Insurance Program
Alabama is the latest state to bear bad news to recipients of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), warning families Monday that it will no longer enroll children starting Jan. 1, 2018 and will terminate the program entirely on Feb. 1, 2018 if Congress fails to act.
Congressional lawmakers have yet to renew federal funding for CHIP since the program expired on Sept. 30. Since then, state officials have had to relay devastating news of funding shortages to families of...
The Trump administration’s Orwellian plan to gut Roe v. Wade
Two women, known by the pseudonyms “Jane Roe” and “Jane Poe,” are being held at federal facilities for undocumented minors who enter the country without an adult guardian. They are pregnant and want abortions. Yet they cannot obtain one because the Trump administration will not let them leave the facility to obtain the medical care they seek.
If this scenario sounds familiar, it should. Last October, the Trump administration made a similar attempt to hold a w...
These are the obscure Trump staffers who are systematically dismantling the federal government
In August 2016, a day after then-presidential candidate Donald Trump announced some of his economic plans, he called in to Fox Business Network to discuss those plans with host Maria Bartiromo. In their conversation, Trump insisted his assault on government programs would not have any negative ramifications. “We’re going to be doing smart budget cuts, budget cuts that will make it just as good or better than it is right now but for a lot less money,” he vowed.
Congress has no...
Canada as Single-Payer Exemplar for Universal Health Care in the United States
In this Viewpoint, David Naylor reviews the many differences between the United States and Canada that preclude the Canadian single-payer system from being a useful exemplar for US health reform.
Virginia’s new governor campaigned on Medicaid expansion, but now is sending mixed signals
Months before Virginia Gov.-elect Ralph Northam rode a massive Democratic wave of progressive support into victory in November, he ran on a platform that specifically championed expanding Medicaid, which offers health insurance to low-income people. Northam, whose campaign website currently shows him providing medical care to a child and whose logo features heart monitor imagery, campaigned on the issue by pointing to a June 2016 speech in which he argued for Medicaid expansion on moral an...
Weighing The Impact Of Repealing The Health Insurance Mandate
The tax bill being considered by Congress includes a repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News talks to guest host Ray Suarez about how that could affect the health insurance market.