A California federal district court judge halted the Trump administration's weakening of Obamacare's contraceptive mandate Sunday, a day before the new rules were to take effect.
Month: January 2019
Trump officials consider allowing Medicaid block grants for states
The Trump administration is considering moving forward with a major conservative change to Medicaid
Native health contractors vote to work without pay to care for their own community during shutdown
The partial government shutdown forced employees with Native American Lifelines (NAL), a nonprofit contracted by the Indian Health Service (IHS), to make an impossible decision: work without pay or be laid off. The majority of staff chose the former.
NAL employees, who provide a host of health services to Native Americans, are likely to miss a paycheck next Friday because the president won’t sign a budget deal that doesn’t include money for a border wall he said Mexico w...
The Health 202: It’s not just drugmakers criticizing Trump’s effort to lower Medicare drug spending
Writing regulations is proving tricky.
Trump’s rollback of birth control mandate could go into effect next week unless courts block it
The cost-free birth control of thousands is at risk unless Democratic attorneys general prevail in court this week. The Trump’s administration’s rollback of the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate is scheduled to go into effect on Monday, unless a federal judge blocks it.
The administration chipped away at the mandate by significantly broadening an employer’s ability to seek an exemption and choose not provide employees contraceptive coverage. In Nove...
The first case Brett Kavanaugh could use to kill Roe v. Wade is before the Supreme Court right now
In 2016, then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a law whose main purpose appears to be trolling the libs. Just over two years later, this law could provide the Republican-controlled Supreme Court with the vehicle it needs to kill Roe v. Wade — and the Court could decide to hear a challenge to this law as soon as Friday.
The case is Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.
The Indiana law requires abortion clinics to treat aborted fetuses as if t...
Dems put GOP in bind with additional House vote on ObamaCare lawsuit
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution backing the chamber's recent move to defend ObamaCare against a lawsuit filed by GOP states, giving Democrats another opportunity to hit Republicans on health care.Three R...
Rich people are lowering cancer death rates in the US
The good news is, over the past quarter of a century, cancer deaths have been on the decline in the US. The bad news is, not everyone benefited equally.
According a report published Tuesday (Jan. 8) by researchers at the Ameri...
