We agree with Jim Reekers that the IMPERIAL trial,1 in both device concept and trial design, as well as in its outcome, was unique and important in the endovascular field. We also wholeheartedly support the use of supervised exercise training in peripheral arterial disease patients as a valuable primary and adjunctive tool to improve symptoms and functional capacity, and we are especially pleased at the decision in 2017 by the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Month: June 2019
Beto O’Rourke talks detention centers, universal health care
2020 hopeful Beto O’Rourke gives his speech in the middle of the crowd at the South Carolina Democratic Convention. O’Rourke talks about universal health care and wanting to embrace renewable energy technology.
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Michael Bennet: ‘We need an agenda that unites America’
Colorado Sen. and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bennet talks universal health care, climate change, and an education system for the 21st century at the South Carolina Democratic convention.
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The Health 202: Trump administration delays controversial Medicare index to lower drug prices
The president has vowed to lower the cost of medicines.
Realigning EMS Reimbursement to Support Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care
This Viewpoint reviews Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) model, a voluntary payment model that will reimburse emergency medical service (EMS) agencies for handling 911 calls with non–emergency department dispositions including on-scene or telemedicine treatment and transport to alternative sites (urgent care clinics, physician offices, behavioral health centers), and outlines the patient safety, quality, and regulatory issues that must be...
Senate votes to confirm man with anti-LGBTQ rights record for lifetime federal judgeship
On Wednesday, the Senate voted 52-46 to confirm as federal judge a man with a record opposing LGBTQ rights and reproductive rights. Matthew Kacsmaryk will sit on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. It is a lifetime federal judgeship.
Before his confirmation, 75 LGBTQ and allied groups signed a letter addressed to Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), ranking member of the committee, in opposition...
30,000 poor elderly, people with disabilities to lose Medicaid coverage in Georgia
Georgia state officials said Tuesday that 30,000 residents will lose their Medicaid coverage for failing to respond to renewal notices. But lawyers of many of the recipients affected say their clients were dropped from coverage without ever having received those notices.
The state Department of Community Health (DCH) had initially reported in early June that 17,000 poor elderly or people with disabilities, who are “dual eligibles” also receiving Medicare benefits, would lose their M...
Chris Murphy may oppose bipartisan health bill unless it addresses ObamaCare ‘sabotage’
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Wednesday he may vote against a bipartisan measure to lower health care costs next week unless it addresses a GOP "sabotage" of ObamaCare.Murphy told reporters he...
Joe Biden’s ignorance of Southern history could screw up his presidency
Oh, bless your heart, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden invoked two segregationist senators, James Eastland and Herman Talmadge, as he fondly recalled the “civility” of the Senate in the '70s and '80s https://t.co/DGJyIle7dH
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 19, 2019
There’s something inherently destructive about a politics that preferences “civility” among powerful white senators over the humanity of African Americans, ...