Jack Rasmus dissects the Republican/Ryan proposal of this past week to repeal and replace the Obamacare Act. The proposal is first and foremost a $500…
Medicaid
We’ve written regularly about the how death rates have been rising among some large segments of the US population. One troubling finding was the Case-Deaton…
Medicaid, the nation's healthcare program for the poor and disabled, is on the chopping block under President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress—and it will…
Five years ago, when Lankenau Medical Center was confronted with evidence that it was serving the unhealthiest county in Pennsylvania, the hospital decided to embrace…
Leading hospital groups teamed up to warn President-elect Trump this week that repealing the Affordable Care Act could spark an “unprecedented public health crisis,” and…
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), the chairman of the budget committee, told reporters on Thursday that Republicans are eyeing major changes to Medicare in 2017. Price,…
It seems obvious to me that there is no way that we can deal with the enormous economic, social, and environmental problems facing this country…
Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, became law six years ago. The intention was to ensure that nearly all Americans have health insurance, while controlling…
It's been more than two years since the Affordable Care Act, which you probably know better as Obamacare, went into full effect for individual consumers,…
Efforts to gut the federal False Claims Act backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce got a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday. The federal push…
Politics in the U.S. has long been accepted as dirty business, especially when it comes to U.S. relations with Latin America. But a new standard…
Consumption of broccoli has increased in the United States over the last few decades as scientists have reported that eating the vegetable three to five…