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May 17 2014
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Obama Administration Paves Way for Obamacare Bailout
A 436-page stack of regulations released on Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) paved the way for the Obama administration to bailout health insurers who lost money on Obamacare. Originally, the Obama administration promised its so-called "risk corridors"--a program to shift money from profit-making insurers to underperforming insurers to keep down premiums--would be
Breitbart NewsJun 26 2020
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Trump signs executive order aimed at improving foster care system
President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order intended to improve the child welfare system, seeking to strengthen foster care and adoption programs amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The order, which Trump signed in the Oval Office without media present, aims to improve transparency and oversight and increase collaboration between public, private and faith-based groups that focus
The HillFeb 10 2022
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Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ‘Racial Equity’
The Biden administration is set to fund the distribution of crack pipes to drug addicts as part of its plan to advance "racial equity."
The $30 million grant program, which closed applications Monday and will begin in May, will provide funds to nonprofits and local governments to help make drug use safer for addicts. Included in the grant, which is overseen by the Department of Health
Washington Free BeaconSep 25 2021
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Covid Hospitalizations Dip, But More Than Half Of States Have Almost No ICU Beds Open
A slight decline in Covid-19 cases nationwide has masked spikes in infections and hospitalizations that have hit mostly Southern states in recent weeks, filling their intensive care units to dangerously near full capacity.
Nationally, 80.1% of ICU beds are occupied, and 27.18% of all ICU beds are filled with Covid-19 patients, according to data from the Department of Health & Human
ForbesDec 23 2021
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First doses of Paxlovid, Pfizer's new COVID pill, are released to states
A federal agency has released the first allocations of Paxlovid, the new COVID-19 treatment from Pfizer, to states and territories. The federal government has a contract for 10 million courses of the treatment and is providing the medicine free to state and territorial health departments.
The government acknowledges that supplies will be tight to start.
"An initial 65,000 courses
NPR (Online News)May 09 2014
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Obamacare?s huge turning point: How a nomination hearing signals GOP epiphany
New HHS Secretary's nomination hearing was once expected to be a lambasting for Dems. Heres why it didn't happen.
SalonJul 08 2022
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Biden Signs Executive Order Aimed At Protecting Access To Abortion, Contraception
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at “protecting access to reproductive health,” the White House announced.
The “Executive Order Protecting Access to Reproductive Health Care Services” is the Biden administration’s latest response to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. That decision, decried by Biden as a “tragic error,” has reportedly
The Daily CallerApr 08 2020
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Congressional Black Caucus calls on CDC to report racial data
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to report racial data in updates on the coronavirus outbreak after figures reported by certain states and counties showed black Americans are disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
The group sent a letter to the CDC on Tuesday requesting the data after sending a separate letter
The HillJan 29 2021
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Cuomo blames nursing home scandal on 'political attack' by Trump admin
In his first public comments since a scathing attorney general report finding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration undercounted nursing home deaths, the governor on Friday argued criticisms of him were a "political attack" that began with the Trump administration.
"That was mean," Cuomo said when the federal government blamed New York and other states for the nursing home COVID-
Fox News (Online News)Jun 24 2020
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Trump administration ending support for drive-thru testing sites
The federal government is ending its support for 13 drive-thru coronavirus testing sites on June 30, urging states to take over their operations — even as cases spike in several parts of the country.
The sites, which HHS says are spread across five states, are the remnants of a larger federal testing program established early in the pandemic. Seven sites are in Texas, which is
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