GOP boycotts health care advisory board House and Senate Republican leaders told President Barack Obama Thursday that they will refuse to nominate candidates to serve on an advisory board that is to play a role in holding down Medicare costs under the new health care act. More
US medicine spending shows rare dip Total U.S. spending on prescription medicines declined last year, a first in more than half a century. The dip was 1 percent, to $325.8 billion — a 3.5 percent drop after accounting for population growth and economic expansion, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. More
Hillary Clinton Gets Another Nudge for 2016 Paging, Hillary Clinton. Emily’s List, the influential abortion-rights group that backs Democratic women, unveiled an initiative Thursday to help put a woman in the White House. The group announced a six-figure digital media campaign and new polling that shows a strong appetite for a female commander-in-chief as part of its “Madame President” campaign. More
Top Online Jobs for Q1 2013: The Freelancer Top 50 Report I was quite excited to see Meghan Casserly’s report this week on the way the freelance revolution is closing the gender gap in jobs and earnings for women. Then I received a message from Freelancer.com with their newest research on the top online jobs for 2013 overall. More
A’s offer Las Vegas stadium financing plans. Here’s how they say they’ll pay for it John Fisher and his family will put $1 billion toward the A’s new stadium in Las Vegas after their stay in Sacramento, according to a team executive. 10/31/2024 - 8:58 am | View Link
Coronation Street plans emotional new scenes for Bethany and Daniel Coronation Street is lining up emotional new scenes for Bethany Platt and Daniel Osbourne amid her health storyline. 10/31/2024 - 7:29 am | View Link
The Quality Of Medicare Advantage Plans...Ain’t What It Used To Be. The star ratings for Medicare Advantage plans are dropping. In 2025, only seven plans will have a five-star rating. 10/31/2024 - 2:55 am | View Link
Radical Plans for Public Housing Stir Up Hope, and Doubt Only at the end, NYCHA officials promise, will construction of additional mixed-income apartments begin. Skeptics of NYCHA’s plans in Chelsea staged a protest outside City Hall the other day, voicing ... 10/30/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Election Anxiety Is Changing Americans’ November Travel Plans The 2024 U.S. presidential election is almost here, and many Americans are reconsidering their travel plans, with some opting to stay close to home during what is traditionally a busy holiday season. 10/30/2024 - 11:13 am | View Link
HHS Announces New Policy to Make Coverage More Accessible and ... “By including new standardized plan options on HealthCare.gov, we are making it even easier for consumers to compare quality and value across health care plans. The Biden-Harris Administration will continue to ensure coverage is more accessible to every American by building a more competitive, transparent, and affordable health care market.” 10/29/2024 - 3:34 am | View Link
What is the Health Insurance Marketplace? Compare health insurance plans for coverage and affordability. Enroll in or change a health insurance plan. Find out about tax credits for private insurance or health programs like Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Get answers to questions about health care insurance. The Marketplace is available online at ... 10/29/2024 - 3:13 am | View Link
Health Insurance HHS makes health insurance coverage more affordable, secure, and reliable for Americans through the current law, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP. 10/28/2024 - 2:48 pm | View Link
Model Notices of Privacy Practices The options below are separated into two sets, for health plans and health care providers. Each set contains three formatted options and a text only option, in both English and Spanish. They are: Notice in the form of a booklet (preferred by consumers in focus testing); 10/28/2024 - 5:01 am | View Link
Lifetime & Annual Limits | HHS.gov Previously, health plans set a lifetime limit — a dollar limit on what they would spend for your covered benefits during the entire time you were enrolled in that plan. You were required to pay the cost of all care exceeding those limits. 10/27/2024 - 2:03 am | View Link
Trump campaign attorneys have demanded that Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold take immediate action to secure the state’s elections following the release of partial voting system passwords online.
In a letter sent to Griswold on Wednesday, the attorneys for former President Donald Trump’s Republican campaign said the password disclosure violates state law and “undermines the integrity of our elections.” They asked that Griswold immediately identify counties affected by the security breach, notify them, direct them to stop processing mail-in ballots and prepare to re-scan all ballots.
“We recognize these steps may be an inconvenience for your office and for the affected counties.
If Donald Trump becomes president again, it looks like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have his say over who gets which vaccines: Trump said at a rally last weekend that he would let RFK Jr. “go wild” on health should he win the White House. RFK Jr. said Trump promised him control of the Department of Health and Human Services, where the CDC and FDA are housed; Trump’s campaign seemed to suggest that wasn’t set in stone.
A world where an anti-vax advocate would play a large role in shaping vaccine policy is kind of terrifying.
When Wendy Davis wanted to get birth control as a teenager in the 1980s, she went to her local Planned Parenthood in Fort Worth, Texas, with a friend. “There is absolutely no way I would have asked my mother for her permission to do that,” says Davis, the former Texas state senator who famously filibustered an anti-abortion bill for 11 hours in a pair of pink sneakers.