Feds finalize $465M Mylan settlement for EpiPen overcharges

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 News

Agreement means drugmaker will pay higher rebates to the Medicaid program on

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Alabama Democrat says he can win Sessions’ seat because his opponents won’t challenge white supremacy

August 17, 2017 Donald Trump, News, politics, Senate

Alabama Republicans Luther Strange and Roy Moore are preparing to battle for Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat in a primary run-off that will pit President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s support and money against a solidly evangelical base. Meanwhile, Doug Jones is sitting back easy.

Jones, the Democratic nominee, won Tuesday’s primary with over 50 percent of the vote, meaning that he avoids a run-off and can now focus his efforts on the December gener...

People who get Medicaid are made to feel powerless. That pushes them out of politics and toward fatalism.

August 17, 2017 News

They say that they're treated like ‘stupid animals,’ made to feel like they were ‘nothing,’ and ‘looked down upon’ for needing help.

White House says Obamacare payments will be made for August

August 17, 2017 News

These payments are made to health insurers to help low-income people enrolled under the health care law with out-of-pocket expenses

Federal Appeals Court Says Arkansas Can Block Medicaid Payments To Planned Parenthood

August 16, 2017 News

It reversed earlier injunctions that forbade the state from suspending payments to the medical provider over a controversial leaked video of Planned Parenthood staff.
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Pauline Hanson wears black burqa in Senate chamber – politics live

August 16, 2017August 17, 2017 News, World news

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young suggests Barnaby Joyce unfit for office as government introduces bill to raise Medicare levy to fund NDIS. Follow the day live …
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Brandis gets a standing ovation from Labor and the Greens.
Strangely, he doesn’t get the standing ovation from his own side.
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George Brandis says:
No we will not be banning the burqa.
I am not going to ignore the stunt of arriving in this chamber...
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Alabama senator says he can’t criticize Trump’s press conference because he was too busy to watch it

August 16, 2017 News, politics

Appointed Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), who came in second in Tuesday’s GOP primary, went on Fox News Wednesday to explain how he plans to win next month’s primary runoff against opponent and former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. But if he was expecting an easy interview from host Trish Regan, he was mistaken; Regan grilled him about his response to the president’s botched comments on the violent Charlottesville white nationalist protests, causing Strange to stumble...

Even the Marines couldn’t prepare John Kelly for what he’ll have to do for Donald Trump

August 16, 2017 Ideas, News, politics, trump

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Trump agrees to pay key Obamacare subsidies, extending its lifeline

August 16, 2017 Donald Trump, health, health care, News, obamacare, politics

Everyone and their doctor has asked President Donald Trump to continue funding Obamacare cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. After flirting with eliminating these payments to insurance companies, he finally agreed to pay them for the month of August. A White House spokesman told multiple news sources on Wednesday that the Trump administration will make the payment.

CONFIRMED: Trump administration will make the August CSR Obamacare payments, a WH spokesman tel...

White House to pressure McConnell on ObamaCare

August 16, 2017 News

White House officials are exploring ways to pressure Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to return to the controversial issue of ObamaCare repeal when the Senate returns to work in September.President Tr...