It could mean less coverage in non-expansion states.
Month: July 2018
White House economists say federal programs helped end poverty. Now they want to end the programs
“Based on historical standards of material wellbeing and the terms of engagement, our War on Poverty is largely over and a success,” wrote the White House’s Council of Economic Advisors in a report relea...
Protests against Pittsburgh hospital expansion highlight city’s growing racial health disparities
More than 100 activists and employees took turns speaking at a packed Pittsburgh City Council hearing Tuesday on the proposed $2 billion expansion of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. They were there to demand that the health care giant agree to higher wages and unionization for workers before it moves forward with expansion.
Prior to the hearing, opponents of the plan marched to the city council building and held a rally, asking f...
Medicaid Under The Influence: How Drugmakers Sway Medication Options For Patients
Drug companies have infiltrated nearly every part of the process that determines how their drugs will be covered by Medicaid, an investigation by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity finds.
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Legal groups intervene in Republican’s lawsuit over counting undocumented in census
A coalition led by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and Democracy Forward filed a motion on Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit brought by Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), who decided to sue the U.S. Bureau of the Census for counting undocumented immigrants in the decennial census.
The legal groups decided to get involved because they didn’t trust the Department of Justice (DOJ) — led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, known for his hardline immigration policies ...
Insurers And Government Are Slow To Cover Expensive CAR-T Cancer Therapy
Treatment costs for the immunotherapy can run to more than $1 million. Some state Medicaid programs aren't paying for the treatment, and Medicare's complicated payment rates have hospitals worried.
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Hospitals Challenge Medicare Payments, With Help From Judge Kavanaugh
A ruling allowing more hospitals to seek more money was based on evidence that the government had been using faulty data to calculate costs for decades.
Morrisey hits Manchin over Supreme Court, ‘liberal’ record
Morrisey criticizes Manchin for his voting record on ObamaCare repeal and the GOP's tax overhaul.
Record number of Muslim Americans running for office
A record number of American Muslims are running for Congress, state, and local office this election cycle, motivated into action in large part by President Donald Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric and policies, a new report by the Associated Press found.
More than 100 candidates ran for office over the past year, more than ever since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to Jetpac, a 501(c)(3) organization working to increase American Muslim civic engagement. Roughly 40 of th...
Bernie Sanders will be live-streaming his town hall to shame CEOs
Bernie Sanders is holding a get-together tonight (July 16), but he’s still waiting for a few RSVPs.
Sanders, the relentless independent and leftist senator from Vermont, and a former presidential candidate who is expected to run again in the 20...
