Contact: SUE WALITSKY 202-224-4524/ TIM ZINK 410-962-4436. WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, a member of the Senate Finance Health Care Subcommittee, released the following statement on the announcement that the Trump Administration plans to limit Medicaid spending by converting its funding into block grants. Families across the country already…
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Washington, D.C.- Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D- Ore., today issued a statement after the Trump administration, led by Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, announced new guidance for the Medicaid program that would hand states a playbook to implement block grants. This fixed amount will allow states to make…
Trump Administration announces new guidelines for states seeking to convert Medicaid to block grants
Washington, D.C.- Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration's announcement of guidelines for states seeking to convert Medicaid to block grants–a change that would fundamentally alter the program in states granted a…
WASHINGTON– Today, Congresswoman Lauren Underwood announced that she will welcome Karen Battaglia, a nurse from Antioch, as her guest to the President's State of the Union address. In addition to being a nurse, Battaglia has a preexisting condition and is at risk of losing quality, affordable health care if the Trump Administration is successful in its efforts…
Right this minute, Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are seeking to obliterate the entire ACA and protections for preexisting conditions while claiming to protect them. Despite the vicious, decade-long obstructionism of Republicans, it has saved at least 19,000 older low-income adult lives from 2014 to 2017 and bestowed reliable health care on…
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. today joined Trump administration health officials in rolling out the Healthy Adult Opportunity program, which will allow states to craft state-specific policies to deliver better care for Medicaid-eligible able-bodied adults. Cassidy spoke during the plan's unveiling at the Department of Health and Human…
U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Grant Programs Directorate, in partnership with the DHS Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives, is hosting nine webinars on the Nonprofit Security Grant Program over the next couple of months for…
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined Senate Democrats in demanding President Trump retract statements he made about cutting earned benefits like Medicare or Social Security in order to pay for his 2017 tax scam–a handout to corporations and the ultra-wealthy at the expense of working families and older Americans.
WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senators Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate health and pensions committee, and Maria Cantwell joined Senator Sherrod Brown and 35 of their Democratic colleagues in sending a letter demanding that President Trump retract statements he made last week threatening to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
2020 JAN 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Marijuana Daily– The National Alliance for Insurance Education& Research released the 6th edition of Executive Liability Insurance: Evolving Times, Evolving Exposures, Evolving Insurance. Written by Richard Clarke, CIC, CPCU, RPLU, the sixth edition examines current trends in underwriting, claims, exposures,…
The prevailing crisis in health care, a financing issue at its core, has dominated our national conversation lately. History buffs may recall the 14 points in President Woodrow Wilson’ s plan to end the First World War a century ago, eliciting French leader Clemenceau’ s remark:“ Even God Almighty has only 10 points! ”Wilson was also the first president to propose a…
Fed Leaves Its Key Interest Rate Unchanged
WASHINGTON- The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats, including from China's viral outbreak. The Fed sketched a mostly bright picture of the U.S. economy in a statement it released after its latest policy meeting.
The House Ethics Committee is warning lawmakers not to share doctored images or videos that could “erode public trust, effect public discourse, or sway an election,” guidance that comes during a proliferation of online misinformation. Paul Gosar, R- Ariz., tweeted a doctored photo of President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
2020 JAN 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– Investigators discuss new findings in Economics- Healthcare Economics. For more information on this research see: Family formation and the demand for health insurance. Health Economics, 2020;:. Health Economics can be contacted at: John Wiley& Sons LTD, the Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester…
2020 JAN 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News— Like pieces of tape that crumple, stick together, and can be turned into a ball, proteins that begin to lose their shape become sticky and tend to clump together. Now, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University show that pharmacological chaperones could fill a…
2020 JAN 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Lopez, Chris; Afanador, Alvis, filed on June 28, 2019, was made available online on January 16, 2020. No assignee for this patent application has been made. News editors obtained the following quote from…
2020 JAN 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– According to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists, a patent application by the inventor Beinhauer, Gerald W., filed on July 12, 2019, was made available online on January 16, 2020. The assignee for this patent application is Appley Health Inc..
Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Arizona State University,“ Not surprisingly, Louisiana relies heavily on funding from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, which it largely spends on home elevations and acquisitions with limited utilization of other mitigation actions. Our analysis of Louisiana expenditures shows that, on…
2020 JAN 30– By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News– State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company has been issued patent number 10,540,256, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors. The patent’ s inventors are Snyder, Richard; Anderson, Matthew R; Galvin, Daniel. This patent was filed on…
