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Feb 03 2020
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Michigan ER doctor confronts Mike Pence over Medicaid cuts, video goes viral
A video capturing the interaction between a west Michigan doctor pushing Mike Pence on health care cuts has gone viral.
Emergency room physician Rob Davidson — who made a failed run for Congress in 2018 as a Democrat — was eating at a diner in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 30 when Pence came in.
As the vice president was making the rounds through the restaurant and approached
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May 18 2024
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Proposal would spend tax money on assisted suicide
[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Live Action News.] A new bill has quietly been introduced which would allow federal funding for assisted suicide. Rep. Brittany Pettersen has sponsored HR 8137, which would “provide for an exception to the restrictions described in the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 with respect to certain States.” Should the bill pass,
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May 16 2024
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The national debt still matters
Interest payments on the national debt have now surpassed, individually, military, Medicare and Medicaid spending, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. That’s based on the initial seven months of data for the current fiscal year. With the national debt now topping $34 trillion and high interest rates, greater and greater proportions of federal spending is
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Jan 06 2014
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Paul says Kentucky-run ObamaCare site also a mess, gave son Medicaid
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., poked a hole Sunday in the argument that the ObamaCare rollout is on the upswing and that Kentucky’s state-run program is a model of excellence, saying it mistakenly issued his son a Medicaid card.
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May 16 2024
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Lapse in payments by CarePoint to state program puts funding for other Hudson hospitals in jeopardy
CarePoint Health, the troubled operator of half of Hudson County’s six hospitals, has missed more payments worth millions of dollars, and this time the outstanding debt could hurt hospitals outside CarePoint’s network if left unpaid. CarePoint owes Hudson County $7.29 million for the past six months of the New Jersey County Option Hospital Fee Program, a program that connects hospitals with
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May 17 2024
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'Just horrible': Shocking stories emerge from Sarah Huckabee Sanders-run Arkansas
Dustin Maybee stopped letting his little girl accompany him to his coop because the starving chickens he'd refused to let Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' state workers smother to death were starting to eat each other, according to a new report. Jamie Andrews was fired from her job when her 6-year-old son, diagnosed with cerebral palsy and microcephaly, became one of tens of thousands of children
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Apr 16 2024
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HIV crisis in Atlanta made worse by racial disparities in treatment
“The larger political context matters,” Justin C. Smith, who directs the Campaign to End AIDS at Positive Impact Health Centers in the Atlanta area, told the AJC. “We know Medicaid matters a great deal for the effective provision of medical services. The fact that Georgia is still refusing to expand Medicaid harms us. There’s a correlation between the locations that have not expanded Medicaid
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Dec 26 2013
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The doctor won't see you? Analysts warn ObamaCare plans could resemble Medicaid
Those signing up for private health care coverage on the ObamaCare exchanges may be in for an unpleasant surprise -- they'll have insurance but they might have trouble getting the doctor to see them.
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May 15 2024
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Carper, Scott introduce legislation to extend hospital-at-home for five years
Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will introduce legislation Wednesday that would extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCAH) waiver program past its 2024 expiration date. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) introduced several waivers and flexibilities in 2020, allowing for various inpatient-level hospital services to be conducted
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Nov 25 2012
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Sen. Dick Durbin: Medicare, Medicaid Fair Game in Talks to Avoid Fiscal Cliff
“From my side of the table, bring entitlement reform into the conversation, Durbin said on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos. “Social Security  set aside ¦ doesnt add to the deficit. But when it comes to Medicare and Medicaid, protect the integrity of the program, but give it solvency for more and more years.
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