FLINT, MI – Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has charged five water officials — including a member of Gov. Rick Snyder’s cabinet and a former emergency manager — with manslaughter related to their alleged failure to act in during the Flint Water Crisis. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon, former Flint […]
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Jeff Sessions Asked Congress To Allow Him To Prosecute In Medical Marijuana States
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is asking congressional leaders to undo federal medical marijuana protections that have been in place since 2014, according to a May letter that became public Monday. The protections, known as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, prohibit the Justice Department from using federal funds to prevent certain states “from implementing their own State laws […]
Alzheimer Deaths Continue To Soar, Up 55 %
Deaths from Alzheimer’s disease have risen dramatically in recent years, new government health data shows, and more Americans are dying from the illness at home. Over a 16-year period, between 1999 and 2014, death rates from Alzheimer’s disease increased almost 55 percent, according to findings published Thursday in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and […]
Trump Budget Has Huge $2 Trillion Dollar Math Error
“A New Foundation for American Greatness” was built on quicksand, and the president’s defenders are happy to keep shoveling it. President Donald Trump’s newly unveiled budget contains a massive accounting error that uses the same money twice for two different purposes. Based on its supersized projections of 3 percent GDP, the president’s budget forecasts about […]
Trump To Propose $800B Cut To Medicaid Over Next 10 Years
President Donald Trump will unveil a proposed budget this week that would slash Medicaid by $800 billion over a decade and cut food stamps by 25 per cent. Mr Trump’s blueprint for the 2018 budget year comes out Tuesday. It includes reductions to benefit programmess such as Medicaid, the government insurance programme for the poorest and […]
Fox News Poll Shows Only 34% Of Americans Approve Of Trump Care
Half of American voters agree with the Republican charge that ObamaCare will collapse if it’s left as is. At the same time, most give positive marks to their health insurance and over half oppose the GOP plan to replace the current health care law. Those are some of the findings from the latest national Fox […]
Trump Says Obama Care Was A Lie
President Trump went on Twitter Sunday to blast Obamacare, days after the House passed a bill to overhaul health care. He tweeted, “Republican Senators will not let the American people down! ObamaCare premiums and deductibles are way up – it was a lie and it is dead!” On Friday, he targeted the media, tweeting, “Wow, […]
Obama Pleads With Congress To Save Obamacare
http://video.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/05/08/600183790975862960/1024x576_MP4_600183790975862960.mp4 Former president Barack Obama has vigorously defended Obamacare as he called on members of Congress to show courage in the debate over the future of health care in America. Obama was careful not to mention Donald Trump by name in Boston on Sunday night as he referenced the current administration’s efforts to dismantle much […]
Buffet Says New Health Care Plan Is Just A Tax Cut For The Rich
Billionaire Warren Buffett on Saturday criticized the Republican healthcare plan, passed through the House last week, as a “huge tax cut for guys like me” and bad news for the less fortunate. “When there’s a tax cut, either the deficit goes up or they get the taxes from somebody else,” Buffet told shareholders at Berkshire […]
Under New Health Care Plan, Major Cuts To Medicaid Coming
The House Republican health care bill’s massive cuts to Medicaid, often skimmed over in the last-minute drama over pre-existing conditions, are fast emerging as a critical source of opposition in the Senate. President Donald Trump said in his speech announcing his 2016 campaign that he would not cut Medicaid and bragged on Twitter that he […]
Planned Parenthood One Step Closer To Losing Funding
The health-care bill passed by the House brought Republicans closer to their goal of erasing Obamacare from the books. But it also revived another long- cherished aspiration: cutting off the flow of federal funds to Planned Parenthood. A provision in the bill temporarily blocks the 100-year-old nonprofit women’s health organization and abortion provider from participating […]
House Votes To Repeal/Replace Obamacare
WASHINGTON – House Republicans will take another crack at repealing Obamacare on Thursday in a high-stakes vote on legislation that would dramatically revamp the health care system and will serve as a major test for the GOP Congress and the Trump administration. The Republican bill, hotly contested and highly controversial, was the subject of 11th-hour […]