The administration is poised to issue a rule making it easier for small businesses to band together and create insurance plans that skirt many requirements of the Affordable Care Act.
Month: June 2018
The Health 202: Congress tackles Medicaid rule in effort to dent opioid crisis
The 'IMD exclusion' gets its day on the Hill.
Wayne Swan wins Labor presidency – question time live
Swan will take over as ALP president from Mark Butler after counting was completed on Monday. All the day’s events, live
Turnbull loses 34th Newspoll running
Tim Storer pleads for tax relief for low paid
Bill Shorten has responded to Wayne Swan’s election as ALP president:
It’s a great pleasure to congratulate Wayne Swan on his election as President of the Australian Labor Party
Just further to the Mediscare bill, here is some of what Christian Porter had to say in that URGENT press conference:
I just wanted to make three comments about the significance of this bill. The first is that the integrity of the Australian democratic system absolutely relies on the proposition that we have a clear, statutory statement of principle that it is a criminal act to use modern mass communications to deceive Australian voters, and that’s what the Mediscare bill does today.
The second point about this is that the new offence, which will make it a criminal act for anyone to impersonate or contend that they are acting on behalf of a Commonwealth body, will apply to a very broad range of Commonwealth bodies, from Commonwealth departments like the department of attorney-general to Commonwealth corporations like the NBN, right through to critical service delivery agencies of the Commonwealth such as Medicare, Centrelink and the NDIS.
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Trump’s Plan to Lower Drug Prices Tests Limits of the Law
As drug prices rise to new heights, President Trump wants to require insurers to reduce out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries, but critics see his proposals as prohibited interference.
Key takeaways from lawsuit against Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirements
Attorneys for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R), began their legal fight Friday against a group of Kentucky activists who are suing the Trump administration o...
You’re less likely to stay overnight in the hospital for abortion than wisdom teeth removal
Although state lawmakers pushing new abortion restrictions often say they’re just looking out for patients’ health, new research shows those concerns may be unjustified.
An Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) study looking at national emergency room data from 2009 to 2013 found that it’s very rare for people to visit emergency rooms for abortion-related reasons. Only 0.01 percent of all those visits by women aged 15-49 were related to abortions....
The Republicans’ Jekyll And Hyde approach to denting the opioid crisis
This week, the House has been voting on dozens of opioid bills ranging from monitoring prescriptions better to money for recovery coaches — a culmination of lawmakers’ work over the last year and a half. But as Congress works to make a dent in a drug epidemic that kills 115 people daily on average, many of these same lawmakers endorse ideas that undermine how people access addiction treatment.
So how far can piecemeal bills go when the Trump administration and Republican...
The Health 202: Some of Obamacare’s loudest critics are now defending the law in court
The newest ACA case has created some strange bedfellows.
At ‘We the People’ forum, Democratic activists shift presidential hopefuls to the left
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) remarked on how what had once been called “radical ideas” — the $15 minimum wage, universal Medicare, and tuition-free public college — were now in the Democratic mainstream.
Pre-existing conditions coverage at risk for more than thought?
Experts say administration court move vs. Obamacare could endanger the coverage for people with employer plans, not just individual insurance buyers