Federal Judge Blocks Medicaid Work Requirements In Kentucky

June 29, 2018 News

Federal court rejects GOP governor’s…

June 29, 2018 News

The Trump administration approved Kentucky's plan for new restrictions on Medicaid beneficiaries -- but a federal court didn't.
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Trump administration loses first court test of Medicaid work requirements

June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 News

A federal judge ruled Friday that Kentucky cannot require certain Medicaid recipients to get jobs. <...

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirements

June 29, 2018 health, medicaid, News, obamacare, politics

A federal judge blocked Kentucky’s work requirement waiver Friday, meaning tens of thousands of low-income residents will not need to report working or volunteering at least 20 hours of work a week to keep their health care coverage.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee, was to consider whether a slew of changes to Medicaid — work requirements, premiums, lockouts, a whole package of restrictions — should go into effect on Sunday, July 1. He decide...

Judge blocks Kentucky Medicaid work requirements

June 29, 2018 News

A federal judge has blocked a controversial Medicaid waiver in Kentucky that was set to go into effect Sunday and would have imposed work requirements on beneficiaries.U.S. District Judge James B...

Rural American women don’t get enough healthcare. This “shithole” country has a solution

June 29, 2018 News, rural america

When it comes to healthcare, the US can learn a lot from Haiti, a nation that US president Donald Trump once derided as a “shithole” country.

Haiti’s extreme poverty has prompted ingenious new strategies for maternal care, an area in which the US lags badly behind other develo...

America is running out of OB/GYNs

June 29, 2018 class, health, health care, medicine, News, Research, US HEalth Care

There aren’t enough Ob-GYNs in America, and soon there will be even fewer. Half the counties in the US don’t have any practicing OB-GYNs. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) puts the current shortage at 6,000 to 9,000 OB-GYNs countrywide, a numb...

Obama: I told Trump to just rename Obamacare and take credit for it

June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 News

President Barack Obama told donors on Thursday in Los Angeles that he told then-incoming President Donald Trump that he should rename Obamacare and take credit for its successes, instead of repealing it.

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The Hill’s Morning Report — Sponsored by Better Medicare Alliance — Expensive and brutal: Inside the Supreme Court fight ahead

June 29, 2018 News

Internal watchdog will investigate Zinke’s Montana land deal tied to Halliburton

June 28, 2018 climate, News, politics

The Interior Department’s internal watchdog will probe Secretary Ryan Zinke’s role in a land deal backed by the chairman of one of the world’s largest oil field companies. The announcement follows a week of growing demands from Democrats calling for an investigation into Zinke’s involvement with the deal.

In a letter released Thursday by House Democrats, Interior Deputy Inspector General Mary L. Kendall wrote that the department’s watchdog office would ...