• WASHINGTON, D.C. - After spending $30 million in 1999 on ads intended to undermine support for an outpatient prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients, two spokesman for the prescription drug industry's main trade group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), recently told The New York Times that they would accept legislation to provide Medicare drug benefits this year ("Drug Makers Drop Their Opposition to Medicare Plan," Jan. 14). (citizen.org)
  • Marilyn Tavenner, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, became chief executive of America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry's main lobbying group, which is known as AHIP. (propublica.org)
  • However, just five days after the article was published, on Jan. 19, PhRMA s "Public Affairs Section" held a strategy meeting with industry allies to detail plans that appear designed to undermine support for a Medicare prescription drug bill. (citizen.org)
  • The activities include releasing reports, conducting a major grassroots public relations and lobbying campaign, initiating state media tours to challenge increased publicity about how much cheaper drugs are in Canada, and opposing the "Allen" bill (H.R. 664/S. 731), which is the most popular Medicare prescription drug bill pending in Congress. (citizen.org)
  • A major insurance company has pulled out of a deal to administer New York City's new Medicare Advantage Plan - the latest setback in the city's effort to shift roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers onto the controversial health coverage. (joanpelzermedia.com)
  • The feeling of ill will is mutual: Lieberman said during the health care debate that one reason he opposed a Medicare buy-in compromise was that progressives were embracing it. (docudharma.com)
  • METHODS: In this observationsl study, we describe overall long-term outcomes for patients from the national Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival linked to Medicare files to create the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival: Mortality, Events, and Costs for Cardiac Arrest survivors dataset. (cdc.gov)
  • We have made a number of proposals, including a substantial one in recent weeks,' State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on December 5. (rferl.org)
  • State of Denial: Arizona' is the "first stop" in the series and will premiere on December 20, 2023. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • Gov. Otter's spokesman says one of the administration's main goals for the next legislative session is to pass a third-consecutive year of tax cuts. (npr.org)
  • Empire's exit is the latest hiccup in the Adams administration's push to implement the Advantage plan, which is supposed to save the city hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars annually thanks to the partnership with a private insurance provider. (joanpelzermedia.com)
  • Members of Biden's administration also are fanning out over the next few weeks around the anniversary of the landmark climate change and health care legislation to extol the administration's successes as the Democratic president seeks reelection in 2024. (ktar.com)
  • WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday was poised to pass an $8.3 billion bill aimed at controlling the spread of the coronavirus and help develop vaccines, as some of the Trump administration's top health officials briefed members of the House of Representatives on the crisis. (jimbakkershow.com)
  • Under the country's 1995 National Health Insurance (NHI) law, Israelis can choose one of four, nonprofit health plans. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • The Ministry of Health operates about half of the country's hospital beds. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • Empire BlueCross BlueShield, one of the country's largest health insurance providers, notified Mayor Adams' office that it's not going to help roll out the Advantage plan after the city failed to provide a start date and benefit specifics as requested by July 15, the company said in a statement Tuesday. (joanpelzermedia.com)
  • Their health care is free and universal and has been since the formation of the country's National Health Service in 1948. (cnn.com)
  • Holding the Democrats accountable today, tomorrow. (iowapresidentialwatch.com)
  • That view was held by 89% of Republicans and, notably, 69% of Democrats. (news10.com)
  • Friday's union victory has the labor movement thinking big as the federal money continues to flow, and that could be good for Mr. Biden and other Democrats, especially in the pivotal state of Georgia. (dishbytrish.com)
  • Thursday's briefing by U.S. health officials in the Capitol came a day after Vice President Mike Pence held separate meetings with House Democrats and Republicans to discuss plans for responding to any coronavirus outbreak. (jimbakkershow.com)
  • After insurers helped to torpedo Hillary Clinton's 1993 health care reform, its lobby sought influence among Democrats through a new kind of Washington firm with ties to the Clintons. (propublica.org)
  • As the latest of a half-dozen prominent architects and overseers of Obamacare to move into the health industry, her move signified growing ties between health insurers and Democrats despite battles over the Affordable Care Act. (propublica.org)
  • He added that the visit "is connected" to "the words that the Pope has said in support of the position of the bishops of the United States in the speech to President Obama and also in the speech to the bishops. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • It was March 5, 2009, and I was channel surfing for some news about the health care reform summit that President Obama was holding at the White House that day. (alternet.org)
  • 2016 - Medical Mutual acquires HealthSpan insurance from Mercy Health. (wikipedia.org)
  • Though this year's races are often drowned out by the circus surrounding the 2016 presidential candidates, the growing role of independent political groups in state races tells a broader tale of their influence up and down the ballot, from governors' races to state senate elections. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Just two weeks ago, for instance, the Environmental Protection Agency, which administers the Clean School Bus Program, pushed a demand on all recipients of federal subsidies to detail the health insurance, paid leave, retirement and other benefits they were offering their workers. (dishbytrish.com)
  • His frequently repeated promise that if Americans liked their existing health care plans or doctors they could keep them under the new law meanwhile has been discredited. (nationalmemo.com)
  • The United States says Russia rejected a new proposal to free two detained Americans, Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan. (rferl.org)
  • I had quit my job as head of public relations at CIGNA-a job that had paid me deep into six figures-because I could no longer serve in good conscience as a spokesman for an industry whose routine practices amount to a death sentence for thousands of Americans every year. (alternet.org)
  • But it gradually became clear to me that the industry's duplicitous PR strategy was going to manipulate public opinion and likely shape health care reform in ways that would benefit insurance company executives and their Wall Street masters far more than most other Americans. (alternet.org)
  • What the Republican proposal (in the House) does is throw 23 million Americans off of health insurance," Sanders told host Chuck Todd . (politifact.com)
  • Adapting the findings of the 2012 study to a scenario in which 20 million Americans lost coverage -- which turned out to be lower than what the CBO found for the House bill -- Himmelstein and Woolhandler estimated that there would be 43,956 deaths annually due to the GOP's health policy changes. (politifact.com)
  • It also helps an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic. (ktar.com)
  • The report, by the Congressional Budget Office, offered fresh ammunition to gleeful Republicans who said it proved their long-held argument that Obamacare, which they have repeatedly tried to repeal, would "kill" jobs. (nationalmemo.com)
  • For years, Republicans have said that the president's health care law creates uncertainty for small businesses, hurts take-home pay, and makes it harder to invest in new workers," said House Speaker John Boehner. (nationalmemo.com)
  • But Republicans say the legislation represents an unacceptable government intrusion into the private health care market and have voted to repeal the law more than 40 times. (nationalmemo.com)
  • American democracy is in jeopardy, from the disastrous Citizens United ruling that flooded our politics with corporate cash to the immoral assault on voting rights. (citizen.org)
  • The door opened for such independent groups to spend more on election ads after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling and related cases said nonprofits, corporations and labor unions could spend unlimited sums to convince voters to elect candidates. (publicintegrity.org)
  • And several outside groups have been working to oppose McConnell or entice McGrath to run, including Ditch Mitch, a political action committee dedicated to unseating McConnell, as well as the liberal political action committees VoteVets and End Citizens United. (rollcall.com)
  • Today's coordinated action reflects our collective commitment to enforcing our sanctions and export controls, including holding accountable those who seek to evade these measures,' said Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson. (rferl.org)
  • The government took few steps to investigate, prosecute, punish, or otherwise hold accountable officials who committed these abuses, many of which were perpetrated as a matter of government policy. (state.gov)
  • The letter says Sepideh Rashno's 'forced confessions' on state television were a continuation of the government's systematic efforts to exclude women from public spaces over the past four decades. (rferl.org)
  • This "pod" and the option of a phone consultation aren't the norm for all general practitioners' facilities but Mowle - like any other GP in the United Kingdom - has a budget to spend on his practice each year, based on a capitation, an amount paid from the government's budget per patient registered. (cnn.com)
  • When the former head of the U.S. government's health insurance programs was hired in July to run a lobby that had spent tens of millions of dollars trying to derail Obamacare, it was more than just another spin of Washington's revolving door. (propublica.org)
  • 1945 - Medical Mutual of Cleveland formed to provide insurance for physicians' bills. (wikipedia.org)
  • And Himmelstein and Woolhandler are founders of Physicians for a National Health Program, a group that advocates for single-payer national health insurance -- a proposal that is even further to the left than the Affordable Care Act. (politifact.com)
  • The complaint states: "Brown scolded those same physicians when their patients cancelled their scans, thus depriving Brown [and Lahey] of revenue. (royalgazette.com)
  • It's about managing demand," said Dr. Steve Mowle, one of the nine physicians at the practice and a spokesman for the Royal College of General Practitioners . (cnn.com)
  • The rate is set by the Ministry of Health and Seniors after it assesses the claims history for everyone who has health insurance, ie, how many claims have been made by each person and for how much. (royalgazette.com)
  • The Legislature signed off on the state-run online insurance marketplace last month. (npr.org)
  • The Legislature held a special session in September to determine how to fill a $1.1 billion hole in the $71 billion state budget. (politifact.com)
  • The complaint states that approved changes to the rate "have an impact on the cost of premiums paid by the insured population", as well as the level of subsidies provided by the Government for certain Bermudians, such as children and seniors. (royalgazette.com)
  • A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. (state.gov)
  • Cabinet status would provide close and frequent contacts with the President and with other Cabinet officials and would make it possible for a representative presenting the point of view of health, education, and security to bring to the attention of the major executive departments of government plans regarding these problems so vital to them. (google.com.my)
  • But Trump's proposed budget declares that Postal Service employees and retirees should be under government-wide changes to health and pension plans. (linns.com)
  • this literally is a fast march toward socialism, where the government is bigger than the private sector in our country, and health care's the next major step, so we oughta all be worried about it. (alternet.org)
  • Mitt Romney caused quite a stir earlier this week when he applauded Israel for spending far less on health care than the United States but neglected to mention that the Israeli system depends on the kind of government regulation he has decried at home. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • Plus, as Sarah Kliff explained on the Washington Post's Wonkblog , researchers have attributed Israel's ability to hold down costs without skimping on quality to the "strong government influence" over the system. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • But independent streaks are sometimes tolerated in a state that would rather not be told what to do by the federal government. (npr.org)
  • His spokesman called the pledge "government by gimmickry. (ontheissues.org)
  • This amazing conspiracy theory is even more suspicious and bizarre in that it is the one proffered by the United States Government (USG) and the 9-11 Cover-Up Omission Commission . (fourwinds10.com)
  • At Dr Brown's two clinics, the rate of scanning of beneficiaries of public insurers - those on FutureCare, HIP or the government employee health plan - met or exceeded the national averages. (royalgazette.com)
  • A presidential decree restored the initial gas prices (and also introduced state regulation of prices for socially important goods) on Tuesday, and the government resigned the following day. (worldcrunch.com)
  • But then the state got some help from the federal government. (politifact.com)
  • The supreme leader holds constitutional authority over the judiciary, government-run media, and armed forces, and indirectly controls internal security forces and other key institutions. (state.gov)
  • Amy McGrath, a retired Marine fighter pilot whose unsuccessful 2018 House campaign attracted national attention, will challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky Senate seat, she announced Tuesday. (rollcall.com)
  • It said that the CBO summary instead showed that some who stay in low paid jobs or put off retirement to keep health insurance plans linked to employers would no longer have to under Obamacare and could chose to leave the work force or toil for fewer hours. (nationalmemo.com)
  • The state of Kentucky's Obamacare. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Tavenner's predecessor at AHIP, Karen Ignagni, was a former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill, but the insurance lobby led the way in defeating the Clinton health coverage plan in 1993 and secretly spent about $100 million to attack Obamacare even as it negotiated to make it palatable to the industry. (propublica.org)
  • Miller said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Joe Biden would keep trying to find a way to free the pair, considered 'wrongfully detained' by the State Department. (rferl.org)
  • It came as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice neared the end of her European tour where she's been asking allies to get behind efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program. (cnn.com)
  • CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: Iran should not use the cover of civilian nuclear power development to sustain a program that could lead to a nuclear weapon. (cnn.com)
  • The sisters have filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration for its 2012 mandate that employers provide insurance coverage for birth control, sterilizations, and drugs that can cause abortions in employee health plans. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Employers are requiring workers to pay more of the costs themselves, and many businesses are dropping health benefits altogether. (nybooks.com)
  • Approximately half to two thirds of the elderly have supplementary insurance that partly covers prescription drugs, but that percentage is dropping as employers and insurers decide it is a losing proposition for them. (nybooks.com)
  • 2001 - Medical Mutual's Preferred Provider Organization (PPO), SuperMed Plus, is recognized as the first PPO in the United States to earn Full Accreditation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Three years ago this committee was organized as a national organization to work for better conditions for children. (google.com.my)
  • Frank's decision was the result of a lawsuit filed by the NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees, which has argued the Advantage plan would water down health coverage for the city's tens of thousands of retirees, including by instituting complicated pre-authorization requirements for certain medical procedures and treatments. (joanpelzermedia.com)
  • The Supreme Court held in its 1994 opinion in Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver , which is reported at 511 U.S. 164, that a private plaintiff may not maintain an aiding and abetting suit under Section 10(b). (techlawjournal.com)
  • Where budgets and health care and the Supreme Court are held hostage. (rollcall.com)
  • Kennedy was 30 years old when he first entered the Senate, winning a November 1962 special election in Massachusetts to fill the vacant seat previously held by his brother John, who had taken office as the US president. (peoplepill.com)
  • Over the course of his Senate career, Kennedy made efforts to enact universal health care, which he called the 'cause of my life. (peoplepill.com)
  • The 1992 Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty describes the country as a "Jewish and democratic state. (state.gov)
  • Global Trade Watch's mission is to ensure that in this era of globalization, a majority have the opportunity to enjoy economic security, a healthy environment, safe food, medicines and products, access to quality affordable services such as health care and the exercise of democratic decision-making about the matters that affect our lives. (citizen.org)
  • The campaign is also launching a spree of advertising with the Democratic National Committee. (news10.com)
  • Georgia's two Democratic senators and southwestern Georgia's Democratic House member also subtly nudged the plant's management, in a union-hostile but politically pivotal state, to at least keep the election fair. (dishbytrish.com)
  • I have been a longtime supporter of the USW and its efforts to improve labor conditions and living standards for workers in Georgia," the Democratic congressman, Representative Sanford Bishop, wrote of the United Steelworkers in an open letter to Blue Bird workers. (dishbytrish.com)
  • Amy McGrath lost her only race in a Democratic wave election because she is an extreme liberal who is far out of touch with Kentuckians," spokesman Kevin Golden said. (rollcall.com)
  • Moore is close with Hillary Clinton - in 2008, she asked a Washington businessman to fund a shadow pro-Clinton effort during the Democratic primaries in four states and Puerto Rico costing $608,750. (propublica.org)
  • SuperMed proved beneficial to the Greater Cleveland Growth Association's Council of Smaller Enterprises (COSE) and later became a national model for insurance among small businesses, chambers, and associations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Bermuda Health Council sets the fees each year for diagnostic imaging services such as MRI and CT scans, which are covered under the basic health benefits package. (royalgazette.com)
  • The Task Force did the investigative work and came up with the same conclusion that everyone who knows anything about the problem has come to," said Merrill Matthews, Jr., Ph.D., director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance. (heartland.org)
  • V. FINDINGS Public Law 87-653 was enacted on September 10, 1962, and amended the provision of Title 10 of the United States Code, which is referred to as the Armed Services Procurement Act (ASP Act) P . L. 87.653 Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75B0038OR000600130005-1 became known as the Truth in Negotiations Act. (cia.gov)
  • 2010 - Medical Mutual selected to run the Ohio High Risk Pool by the Ohio Department of Insurance. (wikipedia.org)
  • With this compromise it should be feasible to move forward rapidly and effectively to the achievement of the creation of a department with Cabinet rank which has long been the dream of people in the fields of education, health, and welfare. (google.com.my)
  • The United States on December 5 imposed fresh sanctions targeting a defense procurement network that the U.S. Treasury Department said is led by a Belgium-based businessman and involves numerous Cyprus-based companies as well as businesses in Sweden, Hong Kong, and the Netherlands. (rferl.org)
  • A program specialist for the U.S. State Department who ran marathons, organized book clubs and was active in her church, Cho "had a lot of positive energy and wanted to make the world a better place," said Steve Park, who runs a charity called Little Lights. (chicagotribune.com)
  • In late December, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a long-awaited report on the importation of prescription drugs to the United States. (heartland.org)
  • Current federal law prohibits the importation of prescription drugs without the approval of the Department of Health and Human Services. (heartland.org)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration has made a new and significant offer aimed at securing the release of American detainees Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich, but Russia has rejected the offer, the State Department said Tuesday. (ktar.com)
  • A Justice Department spokesman would not say whether he had been suspended but said that Ruddy, while still employed, had been removed from his supervisory role at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa. (mynorthwest.com)
  • With outside groups playing a larger role in state elections, voters may not know who's behind the most vitriolic election ads they see. (publicintegrity.org)
  • But the 697-to-435 vote by Blue Bird's workers to join the United Steelworkers was the first significant organizing election at a factory receiving major federal funding under legislation signed by President Biden. (dishbytrish.com)
  • Speropictures and Matt Thayer are releasing a new series of documentaries titled 'State of Denial,' aimed at exposing election fraud across the nation and saving our country from the radical left and uniparty's stolen elections and anti-American agenda. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • We still expect to have an election at some point in November," Reed spokesman Bib Man Lee said. (docudharma.com)
  • In 2000 he was then elected to the United States Congress and served until 2006. (npr.org)
  • the fate of United flight 93 is still up for debate at this time, it seems to have been intended to hit Congress and was likely shot down by a "rogue" air force interceptor, but some reports claim it landed in Cleveland (one way or another, all passengers are dead). (fourwinds10.com)
  • The GOP's efforts to roll back abortion rights have repelled many voters, even in Republican-leaning states. (news10.com)
  • McConnell's campaign wasted no time picking up on that theme, unveiling a website called wrongpathmcgrath.com with a video features McGrath quotes about abortion and health insurance and composite images showing McGrath alongside such liberal leaders such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren , D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y. (rollcall.com)
  • C.L. "Butch" Otter has been a fixture of Idaho politics since 1973 when he was elected to his first term in the state House of Representatives. (npr.org)
  • That's more than the 15 percent of spending that such groups had in a similar time period in 2014 races , or the nearly 19 percent of spending at this point in 2011 when voters in those states last had comparable elections. (publicintegrity.org)
  • His ability to stick to recreation while world-changing events overtake the country is what endears him to red-state voters. (tripod.com)
  • The administration has a record they're eager to run on, including signing into law major investments in health care, climate change, pandemic relief and the economy. (news10.com)
  • The Trump administration has formally declared the United States Postal Service a financial wreck, but its plan for ending the agency's billion dollar deficits is certain to create controversy. (linns.com)
  • Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, promised to fight the Trump budget proposals. (linns.com)
  • Such political groups, independent from the candidates or political parties usually active on the airwaves, are playing a much larger role in state elections than a year ago, a Center for Public Integrity analysis of television advertising data shows. (publicintegrity.org)
  • As OECD countries individually seek to reduce spending on drugs through price controls," the study continues, "their collective actions reduce R&D that would provide substantial health benefits to all. (heartland.org)
  • The United Nations General Assembly, the G-192, has now been established as the central forum for the discussion of world financial and economic issues, and this in itself is a major achievement. (politicalaffairs.net)
  • By the later years of his life, Kennedy had come to be viewed as a major figure and spokesman for American progressivism. (peoplepill.com)
  • So far this year, independent groups account for roughly 23 percent of TV ad dollars spent in the seven states with major races . (publicintegrity.org)
  • A major air show in Sao Paulo this week turned the spotlight on the robust health of Brazil's general aviation market, which is thriving despite the global economic slowdown. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Of the 120 or so people at the summit, many were from special interests that had the largest stakes financially in a reformed health care system: doctors, hospitals, drug and medical- device manufacturers, and, of course, insurers. (alternet.org)
  • My role as President of this General Assembly, which brings together representatives of all the world's peoples, is to invite you to look beyond today's economic concerns and to hold out hope for the common future of the Earth and of humanity. (politicalaffairs.net)
  • Iowa 2004 Presidential Watch: Republican conservative news on the Democrat caucus, primary candidates national campaigns. (iowapresidentialwatch.com)
  • The practice has more than 230 patients registered with severe mental health problems, such as psychosis. (cnn.com)
  • citation needed] In 1926, Elyria Memorial Hospital administrator John R. Mannix began experimenting with the idea of hospital pre-payment and the basic principles of insurance, eventually leading to the formation of the Cleveland Hospital Service Association in 1934. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1934 - Cleveland Hospital Service Association formed to provide hospitalization insurance. (wikipedia.org)
  • The papal visit was not on the official schedule for Pope Francis' Washington, D.C. visit, which included Wednesday visits to the White House, a midday prayer service with the U.S. bishops at St. Matthew's Cathedral, and the canonization mass for St. Junipero Serra at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The administration is once again targeting the Postal Service for service reductions and calling for pension and health insurance cuts for postal and federal employees - all to pay for last year's corporate tax giveaways," he said in a message posted on the union's website. (linns.com)
  • The budget urges approval of a "rate setting system" that would "provide enough flexibility to ensure both the stability of postal operations and the ability of the Postal Service to meet their statutory obligations for retiree health and pension costs. (linns.com)
  • He is ranked fourth in United States history for length of continuous service as a senator. (peoplepill.com)
  • It also states that Timberline staff knew Cho had left via the Lyft car service yet did not call Lyft to determine where she went. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Records from the National Health Service show that the numbers of people visiting an emergency room in England have risen from just over 4.5 million per quarter in 2004 to almost 6 million per quarter by the end of 2017 - almost a 25% increase. (cnn.com)
  • The three-day air show, which closed on Aug. 17, drew around 100 manufacturers including Canada's Bombardier, Gulfstream and Hawker Beechcraft from the United States, Europe's Airbus, and Brazil's Embraer, as well as airplane service, insurance and maintenance providers. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • We have come to the middle of the third day of this historic United Nations Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development. (politicalaffairs.net)
  • In his defense, Salah stated that his views were religious opinions rooted in the Quran and that they did not include a direct call to violence. (state.gov)
  • Nelson added that United States and its allies 'remain focused on disrupting any attempts by Russia or its trusted agents to gain access to the critical inputs and technologies necessary to support Moscow's defense industry and facilitate its brutal war in Ukraine. (rferl.org)
  • KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF-an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • This step would help save USPS funds by reducing the agency's contributions to health and insurance plans, the budget says. (linns.com)
  • The budget claims its proposed steps could boost the Postal Service's financial position by $45 billion over the next 10 years and would allow the USPS to resume making its required $5 billion a year payments for its retiree health plans. (linns.com)
  • The health plans must provide a benefit package set in law. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • Claims that the Affordable Care Act hurts jobs are simply belied by the facts in the CBO report," White House spokesman Jay Carney said in a statement, which appeared just before the White House conducted a hurriedly organized call for reporters. (nationalmemo.com)
  • After she disappeared for several days, Iranian state television aired a 'confession' by Rashno in a video report on July 30 where she appeared to be in a poor physical state and was reportedly rushed to hospital after the video was recorded. (rferl.org)
  • To come up with their estimates, the authors of the Harvard-Center for American Progress report adapted the results of a peer-reviewed 2014 study of the Massachusetts state health care law -- a law that was a model for the Affordable Care Act. (politifact.com)
  • This report cited a study by a group of Harvard School of Public Health researchers on more than 116,000 women nurses which found that physical activity did not totally compensate for the higher death risk associated with being obese. (tripod.com)
  • The ad attacking Crist for 3,000 teacher layoffs relies on a September 2009 report by the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research that tallied jobs shed from state and local governments during the recession. (politifact.com)
  • For example, one article cited in the report stated that Miami-Dade, the state's largest district, "cut nearly 1,000 teaching positions. (politifact.com)
  • The state of California is now facing an eye-popping deficit of $68 billion dollars, according to a non-partisan analyst. (whatreallyhappened.com)
  • The Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (who has no authority over the site) issued a fatwa denying access to the site to Muslims from countries that established diplomatic relations with Israel, but the Waqf (which administers the site) rejected it, stating that Muslim visitors from those countries were brought by Israeli officials without coordination with the Waqf. (state.gov)
  • Representative Rosa DeLauro, who chairs a House panel that oversees federal spending on health programs, said she did not get satisfactory answers from officials about access to testing and diagnostics and how to help people who do not get paid sick days through their jobs or who have no health insurance. (jimbakkershow.com)
  • The op-ed -- published on Jan. 23, 2017, well before either chamber's Republican health care bill was introduced -- used as its basis a different study lead-authored by Sommers. (politifact.com)
  • I described how for-profit insurance companies, in their constant quest to meet Wall Street's profit expectations, routinely cancel the coverage of policy-holders who get sick, and how they "purge" small businesses when their employees' medical claims exceed what underwriters expected. (alternet.org)
  • For ongoing coverage of this topic, go to Boise State Public Radio's website . (npr.org)
  • The alleged "corrupt enterprises" of Ewart Brown and the Lahey Clinic contributed to rising healthcare costs for patients in Bermuda, according to the lawsuit filed in the United States. (royalgazette.com)
  • This part of the editorial rankles: "A spokesman for the House Appropriations Committee chaired by Hal Rogers, which helped negotiate the omnibus, says only that 'as this was a compromise agreement, not all priorities could be retained. (cfif.org)
  • Romney's comments rocketed around the blogosphere as numerous articles pointed out that the Israeli system is highly centralized - and similar in some ways to the federal health law that Romney has vowed to repeal. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • Jonathan Powell, of Phoenix, was arrested Wednesday and held for arraignment in Phoenix federal court. (auburn.edu)
  • As one Arab leader I recently spoke with pointed out, how could anyone count on the United States to go to war to defend them against a nuclear-armed Iran, if we were unwilling to go to war to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran? (docudharma.com)
  • If military action must come, the United States is in the strongest position to confront Iran and manage the regional consequences. (docudharma.com)
  • Washington (United States) (AFP) - The White House jumped to parry new attacks Tuesday against Barack Obama's healthcare law, after a congressional watchdog warned it takes the equivalent of two million workers out of the economy. (nationalmemo.com)
  • His alleged sexual attacks on patients were "an isolated incident," said Timberline spokesman Gary Mack. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Pope Francis paid a short visit to the Little Sisters of the Poor community in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to support them in their court case over the contraception mandate, the Vatican's spokesman revealed. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • For example, Israel's requirement that everyone have insurance is much like the individual mandate. (kffhealthnews.org)
  • Several organizations may speak out in criticism of the plan because it does not give full Cabinet status to the separate agencies of health, education, and security. (google.com.my)
  • Perhaps the most effective compromise in the plan is the elimination of any move to bring in the health services of the Veterans' Administration and the Military Establishment. (google.com.my)
  • Among the more than 40 consultants at Dewey Square is Minyon Moore, the director of its multicultural and state and local practice, a former political aide in Bill Clinton's White House who joined the firm in 2004. (propublica.org)
  • The DOE began this audit of Penn State after the scandal became public. (auburn.edu)
  • In total, as of Sept. 28, an estimated $22.1 million has been spent airing state-level political ads on broadcast TV in those states, with roughly $5.1 million of it paid for by such independent political groups, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of data from media tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG . (publicintegrity.org)
  • two medical students who graduated from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and two policy specialists at the Center for American Progress. (politifact.com)
  • The second piece of evidence Sanders' office cited was an op-ed by yet more health policy specialists who are affiliated with Harvard -- David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, who are professors of public health at Hunter College-City University of New York as well as lecturers at Harvard Medical School. (politifact.com)
  • Another $2.2 billion would aid public health activities on prevention, preparedness and response to outbreaks. (jimbakkershow.com)
  • PURPOSE OF REVIEW: For this review, we use a One Health approach to examine two globally emerging public health threats related to antifungal drug resistance: triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus infections, which can cause a life-threatening illness in immunocompromised hosts, and antifungal-resistant dermatophytosis, which is an aggressive skin infection caused by dermatophyte molds. (cdc.gov)
  • We describe the state of current scientific knowledge and outline necessary public health actions to address each issue. (cdc.gov)
  • former chairman, women's division, National War Fund. (google.com.my)
  • We have to find ways - not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to fund and manage our health care costs," he said at a breakfast fundraiser in Jerusalem, according to the New York Times . (kffhealthnews.org)
  • Crist accepted the funds, and state data indicated that about 19,000 full-time equivalent jobs for instructional personnel were preserved. (politifact.com)
  • But the Miami Herald reported that many teachers were moved into other jobs, and a district spokesman told PolitiFact Florida that no teacher was laid off. (politifact.com)
  • Environment, health, jobs and justice--Who gets to decide? (google.com)