Two whistleblowers are claiming that they were virtually run out of a Veterans Affairs hospital in Jennings, Louisiana, after they reported widespread corruption.
Trump Plans to Undo Obama Rule Letting Unions Skim Dues From Medicaid Payments
Written by Michael Tennant
The Trump administration has proposed doing away with an Obama-era rule allowing states to withhold union dues from Medicaid payments to home healthcare providers.
Trump Allows More Small Businesses to Join Forces to Get Health Insurance
Written by Michael Tennant
More small businesses will be able to join together to seek low-cost health insurance under new rules issued by the Trump administration.
Vermont will require all residents to have health insurance by 2020, despite the national backlash against ObamaCare's individual mandate that demanded the same requirement of all Americans. Just days after Vermont signed its individual mandate into law, New Jersey followed suit. The two states now join Massachusetts, which has had a similar mandate in place for years. The laws prove that the federal government is not the only government capable of overreach.
Nancy Pelosi seems blind to the news that Medicare faces bankruptcy in eight years, as she puts "Medicare for All" on the legislative agenda should Democrats regain the House in November.
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New Jersey recently passed a law reinstating the repealed ObamaCare individual mandate for its residents.
President Trump signed into law legislation that gives terminally ill patients the right to try experimental treatments that have not yet been approved by the FDA.
A group of think tanks wants Congress to pursue their version of ObamaCare repeal this year, but Congress seems unlikely to do so.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar says the Trump administration's plan to reduce prescription-drug prices is "market-based." But is it?
Iowa set a groundbreaking precedent on Friday as the “fetal heartbeat” bill was signed into law. Surrounded by cheers and a crowd of supporters that included mothers and children, Governor Kim Reynolds proudly attached her name to the historic and controversial Senate File 359. Described by many in the mainstream media as “the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban,” this new law requires an ultrasound for a woman seeking an abortion and then prohibits the abortion if the baby’s heartbeat is detected, which can be as early as six weeks. This bill was passed on the same day that a similar bill in South Carolina, banning nearly all abortions, was sent back to committee after a Democratic filibuster.
Expecting premiums on the ObamaCare insurance exchanges to rise sharply in the wake of the repeal of the individual mandate, states are scrambling to find ways to blunt this “sticker shock."