Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News December 4, 2024 With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and Republicans taking full control of Congress in 2025, the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion is back on the…
Trump’s so-called “deficit-closing” budget foresees $1.1T deficits in 2019, 2020, and 2021, and a $1T deficit in 2022 and that’s after he cuts Medicare by $845B, $241B from Medicaid, demands another $8.6B for WALL, and…
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was created to fix a multitude of problems faced by American citizens Here are some of the reasons people were so upset about healthcare opportunities before the ACA (nicknamed “Obamacare”…
Over on Breitbart [the alt-right’s mis-information site] this morning, they’re announcing how the incoming president-elect and his favorite pillagers [healthcare industry CEOs] met on Wednesday to begin a “serious reform of the Department of Veterans Affairs.” He apparently put…
Nothing could define better the contrast between D.C. and the American citizenry than Mr. Trump’s picks to lead the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), and the HHS agency overseeing…
H.R. 2577 is a conglomeration of a number of bills (Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017) that the Senate needs to take action on failed a super-majority vote (60 votes) for…
For Immediate Release First Amendment Lawsuit Brought on Behalf of Academic Researchers and Journalists Who Fear Prosecution Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act WASHINGTON – A group of university professors and journalists filed a…
One of the central tenets of the Bernie Sanders campaign this election cycle is that we should scrap our current process of handling medical care for our nation’s citizens and instead implement a #Medicare4All handled…
‘President Obama has sold the American people a false bill of goods,’ says Friends of the Earth — by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for CommonDreams “Worse than anything we could’ve imagined.” “An act of climate…
I subscribe to way too many blogs and online magazines. Needless to say, as I go through my way too many email accounts, I click through and read a large number of articles each and…