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By Steven Findlay Tameka Henry takes care of her disabled husband, her 87-year-old grandfather and her four children, ages 10 to 16. Two of her ...
Read More »Paid Family And Medical Leave May Be The Idea That Transcends Politics
Who Knew Senate Health Bill Debate Could Be So Complicated?
By Julie Rovner So the Senate has voted to start debate on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act. Now what? Well, it gets ...
Read More »AMA Urges Congress to Reject Efforts to ‘Repeal and Replace’ Obamacare
The American Medical Association (AMA) today outlined its opposition to current efforts in the U.S. Senate aimed at replacing or repealing the Affordable Care Act, ...
Read More »Medicare Issues Update of Physician Fee Schedule
The American Medical Association (AMA) responded today to policies outlined last week in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) physician fee schedule proposed ...
Read More »Millions More Uninsured Could Impact Health Of Those With Insurance
By Julie Rovner Much has been written lately about how individuals’ health could suffer if they lose insurance under the health proposals circulating in the ...
Read More »Revised Senate Health Bill Not Much Better; Leaders Vow Vote Next Week
By Julie Rovner Senate Republican leaders Thursday released their revised bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, but they acknowledged that furious days ...
Read More »Current Health Care Debate Finds Veterans Supporting Obamacare
By Stephanie O’Neill Air Force veteran Billy Ramos, from Simi Valley, Calif., is 53 and gets health insurance for himself and for his family from Medicaid — ...
Read More »New policy aims to help doctors and medical students combat burnout
With increasing evidence that physicians and physicians-in-training are facing increased burnout, depression and suicide, the AMA adopted policy this week aimed at improving physician and ...
Read More »13 Men Wrote The Senate Health Care Bill; One Woman Could Stop It.
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 ...
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