Senators grill Trump’s HHS pick on drug prices, Medicaid

January 9, 2018 News

President Donald Trump's choice for Health and Human Services secretary sought to convince lawmakers Tuesday that he would work to lower prescription drug prices even though he used to lead a major US pharmaceutical company.
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Booking Barack Obama for David Letterman’s new show might be Netflix’s biggest coup yet

January 8, 2018 Entertainment, media, News, Obama, politics

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Trump health care nominee reportedly padded his resume then blamed it on a tornado

January 7, 2018 healthcare, News

Robert Weaver, the Trump administration’s nominee to head the Indian Health Service, may have misrepresented his employment at a Missouri hospital, according to a report Friday in The Wall Street Journal.

Weaver, 39, is a member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma. The White House announced his nomination last October, saying he would bring “nearly two decades of experience in hospital, mental health administration, and entrepreneurship” to IHS.

Weaver reportedl...

Medical Research? Congress Cheers. Medical Care? Congress Brawls.

January 6, 2018January 6, 2018 Health Insurance and Managed Care, House of Representatives, Law and Legislation, News, Research, Senate, United States Politics and Government

Lawmakers are pushing for billions in new funding for biomedical research, but sparring over health insurance and almost everything else related to the Affordable Care Act.

CHIP Funding Could Run Out On Jan. 19 For Some States

January 5, 2018 News

Idaho governor signs order seeking to roll back ObamaCare rules

January 5, 2018 News

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter (R) says states should take action on their own regarding the health law.

Dear American right-wing media, ‘socialism’ isn’t to blame for the NHS crisis. Austerity is.

January 5, 2018 health, health care, News, World

Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis.

The publicly-funded healthcare system, which has been part-and-parcel of British life since its foundation in 1948, has faced its worst winter crisis in more than 30 years. A combination of a severe flu outbreak, cold weather, an aging population, and high levels of respiratory disease has left the system near breaking point.

Patients have spoken of 12-hour waits at emergency rooms, ambulances have been left queuing outsid...

Hospitals Nationally Hit Hard By Medicare’s Safety Penalties

January 5, 2018 News

Seven states saw a third or more of their hospitals punished under the federal heath law's campaign against hospital-acquired conditions. Critics accuse some unscathed hospitals of gaming the system.
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Trump’s big health plan will be disastrous for people with pre-existing conditions

January 4, 2018 health care, News, obamacare

On Thursday, the Trump administration proposed to change current health law by permitting millions of small businesses and self-employed individuals to purchase plans that don’t play by Obamacare rules.

“People have no idea how big that is,” President Donald Trump said of association health plans (AHP) in a recent New York Times interview. He’s right.

Thanks to the new proposed rule, people can exit the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace and purchas...

Trump administration rule would let more Americans drop Obamacare

January 4, 2018 News, topNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday proposed a rule to allow Americans who are self-employed or work for small businesses to buy health insurance that does not comply with all Obamacare requirements in an effort to unwind the 2010 healthcare law.
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