A year ago today, Republican Sen. John McCain shocked fellow lawmakers by casting the decisive vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act.
Month: July 2018
‘A different level of intensity’: Collins and Murkowski find pressure over Supreme Court lacks emotional pleas on health care
Liberals are targeting the two moderate GOP senators who stopped the repeal of the Affordable Care Act last year, hoping they will break ranks and defeat Kavanaugh.
Arizona Governor Takes Steps To Blunt Industry Influence On Medicaid
After an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR into conflicts of interest in Medicaid decisions about drugs, Arizona's governor added new transparency rules.
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Trump’s push to make city cops into stooges for ICE suffers strange, messy courtroom defeat
Cities and states can refuse to answer questions from federal immigration officials, a federal judge ruled Friday in a decision that boosts resistance to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump’s crusade against immigrants — and illustrates the contortionist flexibility of the law.
The ruling is another setback for the Trump-Sessions war on undocumented migrants that was central to the president’s campaign message. The City of Chicago’s 2012...
The Stealth Campaign to Kill Off Obamacare
How the country’s largest lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry is using “dark money” to support an advocacy group’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
When is tech in the health sector extremely dangerous? Too many times.
The pharmaceutical industry has recently come under intense scrutiny for driving the opioid epidemic, insurance companies and hospitals are faulted for rising health care costs, and even the insurance “middlemen” (pharmacy benefit managers) recently got called out by President Donald Trump for their role in high drug prices. But a new documentary premiering Friday on Netflix asks audiences to pay attention to a health sector they otherwise wouldn’t: the medical device industry.
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The Health 202: Trump administration ‘undeterred’ by court ruling against Medicaid work requirements
Azar speaks out for the first time about them.
A conservative scholar questions whether the US really has an inequality problem
Scott Winship started his career as a moderate Democrat, believing in progressive solutions to the US’s economic issues. After college, he worked at the liberal community organizing-group ACORN on a campaign to increase in ...
Some Doctors, Patients Balk At Medicare’s ‘Flat Fee’ Payment Proposal
The Trump administration says its plan to overhaul the way Medicare pays doctors will save physicians time and paperwork. But critics worry the changes will hurt patients' care and doctors' income.
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Government watchdog: DOE violated federal law with anti-Obamacare tweet
Official DOE Twitter account tweeted Sec. Rick Perry's column on Cleveland.com calling for the repeal of Obamacare.