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Health care has emerged as the top issue for voters headed into the midterm elections, but fewer than half of them say they are hearing ...
Read More »Health Care Tops Guns, Economy As Voters’ Top Issue In Midterm Elections
AMA Salutes Congress for Passing VA Health Care Bill
Senate passage today of legislation reforming VA Choice is a victory for our veterans – continuing our commitment to honor their service and providing them ...
Read More »Need A Medical Procedure? Pick The Right Provider And Get Cash Back
Laurie Cook went shopping recently for a mammogram near her home in New Hampshire. Using an online tool provided through her insurer, she plugged in ...
Read More »Obamacare Shopping Is Trickier Than Ever. Here’s A Cheat Sheet.
Health care is complicated. Shopping for an individual health plan just got even more so, with President Donald Trump’s decision last month to block $7 ...
Read More »Republicans Fail, Again, To Repeal Obamacare
By Alan Lyndon Many of the nation’s medical associations were glad to see the end of the Graham-Cassidy health care legislation, which sought to repeal and ...
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 »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 »Doctors hail reintroduction of Medicare-for-all bill
A national physicians group today hailed the reintroduction of a federal bill that would upgrade the Medicare program and swiftly expand it to cover the ...
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