Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma on Sunday announced that the Trump administration would begin requiring nursing homes to report confirmed coronavirus cases to the Centers for Dis...
Month: April 2020
Coronavirus has destroyed the myth of the deficit | Yeva Nersisyan and L Randall Wray
No, federal government spending doesn’t have to be ‘paid for’. The crisis shows providing for our society is not a financial issue
Only a month ago, a stimulus bill of $2tn would have been unthinkable. Indignant deficit scolds would have asked how one planned to pay for it, and complained about burdening our grandchildren with debt and bankrupting our country. Bernie Sanders bent over backwards to explain how he was going to pay for a Green New Deal or Medicare for All. These program...
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DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has extended the city’s stay-at-home order through at least May 15, ordering sc...
Sanders Campaign Director: Biden ‘has to work for’ progressives’ support
Former Bernie Sanders 2020 Campaign Director Faiz Shakir joins Ayman Mohyeldin after Senator Sanders endorsed Former Vice President Joe Biden. Faiz credits Sanders' campaign with pushing Biden to the left on issues from medicare to education.
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Coronavirus antibody testing must be covered free, feds say
Tests to detect antibodies to the virus must be covered free of charge under health insurance plans and Medicaid, according to new guidance issued by the federal government.
Federal gov’t isn’t tracking nursing home virus-related deaths
There have been outbreaks of coronavirus in nursing homes across the country, yet the federal government is not tracking them. Joining Katy Tur to discuss is Former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt.
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12 governors press Trump for special ObamaCare enrollment period amid coronavirus pandemic
A dozen Democratic U.S. governors are calling on the Trump administration to open a special ObamaCare enrollment period amid the coronavirus pandemic. The governors stressed the necessity of heal...
Biden’s Health Play In A COVID-19 Economy: Lower Medicare’s Eligibility Age To 60
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposes letting 60-year-olds enroll in Medicare. He'd pay for the expansion out of general tax revenue, he says, not the Medicare fund.
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So merch for all that: how Bernie Sanders became politics’ least likely style icon
Never has one man in inexpensive rumpled suits been so loved by the style set - but Sanders’ clothes signal an authenticity other politicians can only dream of
Of all the things we’ll miss about Bernie Sanders, now that he has dropped out of the Democratic race, his style should be the least of it. Not only because his politics are so right on – this is the man who believes in free education and Medicare for all and who has had many Americans, who until recently felt disenfranchised ...
Trump admin ignoring dire COVID-19 situation in US nursing homes
Andy Slavitt, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, talks with Rachel Maddow about the threat of COVID-19 to U.S. nursing homes and log term care facilities and what steps the federal government should be taking to
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