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May 13 2020
Opinion
Fact-Checker Denies That Planned Parenthood Is an Abortion Business
Thanks to the Media Research Center, which has highlighted a recent fact-check from USA Today and the Green Bay Press-Gazette. In the article, local reporter Haley BeMiller considers the claim — made in a 2019 LifeNews.com article — that Wisconsin’s Democratic governor Tony Evers “wants to force residents to fund Planned Parenthood abortion business” and rates it “partly false.”
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National Review (News)Feb 18 2015
News
Obama Touts Phony Obamacare Numbers (Again)
Last year, the Obama administration announced to much fanfare that it cleared 8 million Obamacare enrollments but later admitted it inflated those figures by 1.3 million.
In the wake of the bogus numbers revelation, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell apologized for the “unacceptable mistake” and held meetings to solicit ideas on how to repair HHS’s tarnished image
Breitbart NewsDec 04 2014
News
Health Spending Rises Only Modestly
It was the fifth straight year of exceptionally small increases in the closely watched indicator. The data defied critics who had said such slow growth would not continue for long once the recession ended in mid-2009.
Health spending totaled $2.9 trillion last year, up 3.6 percent from 2012, the administration said. The share of the economy devoted to health care, which appeared to be
New York Times (News)Nov 12 2014
News
In Control, Republicans See Budget as Way to Push Agenda
Next year, House Republicans will try again to transform Medicare and Medicaid, repeal the Affordable Care Act, shrink domestic spending and substantially cut the highest tax rates through the budget process. Then they will leave it to the new Senate Republican majority to decide how far to press the party’s small-government vision, senior House aides said this week.
House Republican
New York Times (News)Nov 06 2014
Opinion
Libertarian message wasn’t the ticket to the GOP wave
No, the GOP brand does not “suck.” And the libertarian moment is a canard. The GOP does not have to be anti-interventionist, pro-drug legalization, anti-foreign aid, anti-police or very libertarian at all to win. Practical governors, hawkish senators and dependable establishment Republicans are heading into office. Maybe the GOP need not reinvent itself to target youth voters while spurning
Jennifer RubinOct 04 2014
News
Why is this GOP governor talking health care with Obama?
As soon as Air Force One touched down in Indiana on Friday, Gov. Mike Pence met President Barack Obama on the tarmac with a plea: Expand the state's access to government-sponsored health insurance. The catch: Pence wants to do it with a conservative twist. At least, that's how he's selling his proposal. And his political future could hinge on whether the first-term Republican can convince
CNN (Online News)Apr 09 2020
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Black People Are Dying From COVID-19 at Higher Rates Because Racism Is a Preexisting Condition
A few weeks ago, a thought woke Camara Jones up in the middle of the night. It was about the coronavirus. That’s commonplace these days, but Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where among other things she studied racial bias in the medical system. Her thoughts on a pandemic are anything but commonplace.
The
Mother JonesJul 11 2019
News
Trump Administration Drops Plan to Curb Drug Rebates
The Trump administration is dropping a plan to curb billions of dollars in annual rebates that drugmakers give middlemen in Medicare, a proposal it had said would drive down the prices consumers pay for prescription drugs.
The decision reflects months of tension between the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services over the proposal, which also spurred a backlash from
Wall Street Journal (News)Jun 12 2020
News
Trump Told Rallies May Give Fans COVID But He’s Still Demanding Jam-Packed Crowds
As President Donald Trump prepared to return to the campaign trail amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, administration officials and several close advisers warned him of the dangers that could come with packing a venue full of his political supporters.
He was not dissuaded.
“He’s been [gently] reminded of the concerns,” said a senior administration official, regarding the
Daily BeastNov 07 2013
News
Obama: Website Woes 'Drive Me Crazy'
President Barack Obama has admitted that the "website woes" of HealthCare.gov drive him "crazy."
Obama went to Texas to thank volunteers who have been helping sign people up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, his signature piece of legislation. He's also trying to pressure Texas Gov. Rick Perry to expand Medicaid.
"You've all heard about the website woes," Obama
Newsmax (News)