Bipartisan push for Obamacare fix unravels in Senate over abortion, charges of politicking

March 25, 2018March 25, 2018 News

Democrats and Republicans blame each other after months of negotiations fail to reach a compromise to lower health insurance premiums.

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Pence secretly drafted Trump’s latest transgender military ban

March 25, 2018 Donald Trump, lgbtq, News, transgender

When President Trump announced a new ban on transgender people serving in the military late Friday, it was somewhat of a surprise — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had reportedly recommended in February that Trump allow transgender people to serve. It turns out that Vice President Pence and some of the country’s most prominent anti-LGBTQ activists had a role in reversing the outcome, which explains why the report explaining the decision is rife with anti-trans junk science.

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[World Report] Trump Administration’s new direction for Medicaid

March 24, 2018March 24, 2018 News

Medicaid work requirements would make the health insurance programme a pathway out of poverty, say top US health officials. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet's Washington correspondent, reports.

Kellyanne Conway on opioids: ‘Eat the ice cream, eat the french fry, don’t do the street drug’

March 22, 2018 health, kellyanne conway, News, politics

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway offered her advice to a group of millennials Thursday, encouraging them to just eat more junk food instead of turning to opioids.

“On our college campuses, your folks are reading the labels, they won’t put any sugar in their body, they don’t eat carbs anymore, and they’re very, very fastidious about what goes into their body,” Conway said at a meeting with young people at the White House. “And then you b...

Medical Research, Drug Treatment And Mental Health Are Winners In New Budget Bill

March 22, 2018 News

There's no sign of a plan to stabilize the Affordable Care Act marketplaces in the new budget bill, but the agreement does provide a lot more money for other things in health care.
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The Health 202: This abortion fight derailed a bipartisan Obamacare fix in spending bill

March 22, 2018 News

A massive $1.3 trillion spending deal was, politically speaking, probably the last chance this year for Congress to try to help stabilize the Obamacare marketplaces.

The 2,232 page omnibus spending bill, explained in less than 1000 words

March 22, 2018 guns, News, Russia

Late Wednesday evening, after a day of considerable debate between House Republicans and the White House, legislators released the text of the 2,232 page omnibus spending bill. Lawmakers in the House may be in for a long night of reading, as they may be casting votes on the omnibus as early as Thursday. If passed by midnight on Friday, the bill will fund the government through the end of September. Overall, the bill increases military spending by $78 billion and spending on domestic progra...

GOP lawmakers blast Dems for opposing ObamaCare fix

March 21, 2018 News

Republicans said Democrats were blocking a bill for political gain.

Paul Ryan bolsters Democratic concerns…

March 21, 2018 News

Democrats want to tell voters that the GOP tax plan represents a threat to Social Security and Medicare. Paul Ryan is helping prove Dems right.
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20,000 Republicans just voted for an actual Nazi

March 21, 2018 News, politics, republican-party

The former head of the American Nazi Party ran for the Republican nomination of Congress in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District. No Republican stepped up to oppose him.

On Tuesday, despite his vocal Holocaust denial, his anti-Semitic rhetoric, and his white supremacist views, 20,339 Illinois Republicans, according to preliminary totals, cast their ballots for Arthur Jones on Tuesday.

Jones’ Nazi-sympathies were not a secret going into election day. His campaign ...