By Julie Rovner As Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tries to negotiate his way to a health bill that can win at least 50 Republican ...
Read More »The McConnell Health Plan: Repeal Obamacare, But Hide the Pain
By Michael McAuliff Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is well aware of the political peril of taking health benefits away from millions of voters. He also ...
Read More »AMA Says GOP’s Health Care Bill Violates ‘First, Do No Harm’
The American Medical Association (AMA) today, in a letter to Senate leaders, outlined its opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act. Throughout the health system ...
Read More »AARP Wants Senate to Reject Health Care Bill
By Nancy LeaMond This new Senate bill was crafted in secrecy behind closed doors without a single hearing or open debate—and it shows. The Senate ...
Read More »Senate Health Care Bill is Awful for Children
By Fernando Stein, MD The U.S. Senate’s health care legislation, at last unveiled today, fails to meet children’s needs. The bill fails children by dismantling ...
Read More »AMA helps doctors, med students prevent and manage obesity
Recognizing that obesity remains a primary health concern impacting an increasing number of Americans, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy during its Annual Meeting ...
Read More »In interviews, Trump sounds like he does not understand health care
By Julie Rovner Lost in all the coverage of the firing of FBI Director James Comey last week were a pair of in-depth interviews President ...
Read More »New health care law could entirely depend on Planned Parenthood
By Julie Rovner If there’s anything congressional Republicans want to do more than “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act it’s defund Planned Parenthood, which ...
Read More »Congressional Budget Office says 23 million will lose health care under GOP plan
The new health care bill passed last month by the House would decrease the number of insured Americans by 23 million over 10 years if ...
Read More »Trump extends deadline for states to meet Medicaid standards
By Phil Galewitz The Trump administration has given states three extra years to carry out plans for helping elderly and disabled people receive Medicaid services ...
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