Month: October 2024
Harris will fight to protect health care for more than 4 million Hispanics
When my sister, Kimberly, was two years old, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. As she was fighting for her life, my parents were fighting to protect their family.
My mom and dad spent every dollar they had on Kimberly's medical expenses as she quickly maxed out her lifetime cap on health insurance.
Kimberly died at age 21, and my parents spent years trying to pay off the debt incurred from her medical expenses. No parent should have to grieve th...
Fact check: Does Donald Trump want to do away with the Affordable Care Act?
Kamala Harris’s campaign claims that he does.
[Correspondence] The politics of reform of NHS dentistry
Not since the birth of the National Health Service (NHS) has dentistry received so much attention from politicians. The NHS is mentioned in manifestos and discussed on the doorstep. A recent Comment by Richard G Watt and colleagues1 criticised the English Government's recovery plan as out of scale with the velocity and extent to which the system is failing. The Comment called for “bold and ambitious” reform,1 including replacing the NHS dental contract and increasing funding (estimating that ...
Five takeaways from a fiery Wisconsin Senate debate
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Republican challenger Eric Hovde squared off on a debate stage Friday evening in Madison in a fiery exchange of attacks that showed how intense this race has become after largely flying under the radar for months.
Hovde wasn’t as highly touted a Senate Republican candidate as some others trying to knock off Democratic incumbents, but the race in Wisconsin has become extremely tight in recent weeks, mirroring the small margin of difference betwee...
Congress wants telemedicine flexibilities to stay
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More than 1,500 physicians call on Trump to release health care plan
More than 1,500 physicians around the country are calling on former President Trump to release his health care plan with three weeks until election day.
In the new letter authored by the Committee to Protect Health Care PAC, which has endorsed Vice President Harris, more than 1,500 physicians urge the GOP nominee to clarify his plans for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) following his remarks on the topic during his debate against Harris last month.
“I have concepts of a...
Mormon voters set to play critical role in swing states
Mormon voters are increasingly seen as a crucial swing vote in the presidential election, with both Vice President Harris and former President Trump stepping up their outreach to the demographic in multiple battleground states.
The Harris and Trump teams have launched coalitions and deployed surrogates to engage with members of the community, formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Arizona and Nevada — home to more than 600,000 members combined, i...
House Republican fights for his political life in Arizona swing district
Rep. Dave Schweikert (R-Ariz.) is fighting for his political life in a key Arizona swing district, in what observers say will likely be the most competitive race of his years-long career.
Schweikert, who has represented parts of Phoenix and Scottsdale for over a decade, is running against Democrat Amish Shah as he looks to secure his eighth term representing a district that has come to be seen as an important bellwether due to the area’s high percentage of college-educated sub...
Meghan McCain on Harris invoking her father: ‘Democrats want to reinvent history’
Meghan McCain, the daughter of late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), pushed back against Vice President Harris's mention of her father at a rally earlier this week, claiming Democrats are trying to "reinvent history."
"Now, I know democrats want to reinvent history and turn my Dad into any illusion you guys need him to be depending on the political moment you need to bastardize his memory for…" Meghan McCain wrote in a post on social platform X.
"But please don’t make me ...