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…
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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”…
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…
It’s getting pretty obvious that when the Democrats passed health care reform, it was like a fly landing in the Replican’s perceived ointment of success. I commented previously on Rep. Paul Ryan’s ‘Roadmap for America‘…
In May 2009, I wrote an article about the Patent Office and its practice of allowing the patent of human genes, specifically, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The Patent…
If you have health care insurance, you probably know how much you pay annually for those premiums. And, you can tally up what you have to pay providers in addition to those costs … for…
I’ve been reading the Senate Health Care Reform bill (HR3590). While there is no specific mention of mammogram screening, check out the wording relative to recommendations made by the US Preventive Services Task Force on…
This has not been a good year for women. Before President Obama could be sworn into office, the Bush administration enacted their ‘conscience’ regulation which elevated anyone else’s conscientious decisions over that of any woman…