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Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik calls Senate health-care bill ‘morally wrong’

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June 30– PITTSBURGH– The Senate replacement for the Affordable Care Act is “morally unacceptable,” Pittsburgh Catholic Bishop David A. Zubik said in a statement Friday opposing the legislation. Zubik, an Ambridge native who leads more than 600,000 Catholics in the Pittsburgh Diocese, said he released the statement to speak up for those whose voices might be…

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July 01– Ohio public officials and health policy experts fear the deep Medicaid cuts proposed under Senate Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act could weaken efforts to address the state’s opioid epidemic. The program also faces challenges at the state level, where a House-Senate budget conference committee on Tuesday voted 4-2…

Roger Marshall, R- Great Bend, said he purposely remained silent when the health care legislation spotlight shifted to the Senate. “I didn’t want to over-react to every up and down,” he said. A physician and freshman Congressman, Marshall anticipates a replacement for the Affordable Care Act will emerge from Capitol Hill before the Congressional August recess and…

Centene announced Friday that it will sell plans in 40 Missouri counties, including the 25 western Missouri counties that were at risk of having no insurance carrier after Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City said it would not offer plans there in 2018.. Centene announced earlier this month that it planned to enter new exchange markets in 2018, including in…

July 01– In 2010, U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky returned to Northwest Indiana and was met with anger over the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Senate is now debating a proposal to overhaul the health care legislation, after the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the bill in May.

July 01– A bill to protect families who want to pass their farm or business on to the next generation was introduced by Rep. Mike Thompson, his office announced. The Family Business Preservation Estate Tax Act would create a deduction, allowing families to pass their business to their descendants, without losing the farm, so-to-speak, in estate taxes, as long as it…

June 30– Third District Judge Susan Wiebe sentenced 39- year-old Chris Kienitz on Friday after he admitted to committing insurance fraud. An investigation revealed that in November 2014, Kienitz filed a claim with Progressive Insurance for an accident involving his vehicle. Pursuant to the plea agreement, Kieintz agreed to pay $990 in restitution to the…

June 30– Before Haylee Kalick signed up for Medicaid in 2015, she had been involuntarily committed to hospital psychiatric wards under Florida’s Baker Act close to 20 times, said her father, Bruce Kalick. But ever since Haylee Kalick signed up for Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans, she has been able to receive…

June 30– Lance Robertson, of Edmond, has been nominated by President Donald Trump for the position of assistant secretary for aging at the Department of Health and Human Services. Robertson, 46, became director of the Aging Services Division at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services in 2007. Robertson was an administrator for 12 years at Oklahoma State…

The American Chiropractic Association issued the following news release:. The American Chiropractic Association is encouraged by the reports that the U.S. Senate is slated to add $45 billion to its healthcare reform bill, emphasizing the need for healthcare reform efforts that further address the nation’s opioid epidemic. ACA applauds the Senate for…

Perhaps it’s with the Club for Growth, the pro-business group Toomey once headed, which pumped more than $5 million into his reelection campaign. McConnell wants to use a legislative tactic requiring only a simple majority for passage, but the Republicans have just a two-vote majority and at least six were still opposed to the bill Friday.

Peggy Lehner, R- Kettering joined Democrats in the legislature and health care advocates in calling for a veto of the Medicaid freeze. “And I am not at all sure that the Senate has the votes to override.” John Fortney, press secretary for Ohio Senate President Larry Obhof, R- Medina, said Obhof “runs the caucus democratically, with a lower case’ d.'”.

—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has rejected President Donald Trump’s advice to nix the GOP’s complex health care proposal in favor of a bill that would simply get rid of “Obamacare” once and for all. Former President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, and Republicans have been trying to get rid of it ever since.

Kindred Healthcare, Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with BM Eagle Holdings, LLC, a joint venture led by affiliates of BlueMountain Capital Management, LLC, under which it will sell the Company’ s skilled nursing facility business for $700 million in cash. As previously disclosed, 36 of the skilled nursing facilities are currently…

July 01– The depopulation program that keeps state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. from growing too large should be a model for reforming flood insurance nationwide. That’s the idea a Florida lawmaker is promoting as Congress faces a Sept. 30 deadline to reauthorize a National Flood Insurance Program burdened by $24.6 billion of debt and ever-rising…

June 30– On the surface, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision this week to delay a vote on the Senate’s health care bill might seem frustrating to the House Republicans who backed a measure to rip up the Affordable Care Act. But some political analysts say the delay could actually be a political boon to vulnerable House Republicans– especially the…

June 30– SACRAMENTO– Since Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon revealed this week that he had received death threats on social media for his decision to block a single-payer health care bill from advancing this year, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have pushed back against the highly charged rhetoric and violent images targeting the Democrat.

June 30– Palo Alto tech companies and startups are known for giving employees perks such as free food, valet parking, laundry service and bring your dog to work days. Rich Lang, senior vice president of human resources at VMware in Palo Alto, said offering pet insurance as an employee benefit aligns with the company’s core value of building community.