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After Eleventh-Hour Negotiations, House Set To Vote On $6.3B Cures Bill
While Democrats are still unhappy with some aspects of the legislation, it’s expected to make it through the House and move on to a Senate vote next week.
Food-Borne Outbreak Linked To Church Allowed To Serve Holiday Dinner Without Permit
Three people were killed and at least 17 were sickened by the illness.
The report concludes that the trends will present new and difficult challenges for California in providing long-term care for these seniors.
Air Quality Officials Go After Metal-Processing Plants For Cancer-Causing Toxins
The air quality agency also said it has drafted a plan to expand its monitoring for toxic metals to other parts of Paramount where residents have complained of headache-causing metallic fumes.
Saint Agnes’ Distribution Of Mandatory Charity Donations Raises Questions
“You have $500,000 that goes to four health-based organizations and the remaining $1.6 million stays within Saint Agnes Medical Center’s systems. It’s like taking money from one pocket and putting it into another,” said Noe Paramo, co-director of Sustainable Rural Communities Program at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation.
With Price Nomination, Trump Undercuts Campaign Promise To Protect Medicare
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., Donald Trump’s choice to head HHS, is eager to overhaul the program that the incoming president swore to defend.
California Health Advocates Reeling From Price Nomination
Rep. Tom Price’s health proposals “would not just undo the last five or 10 years of progress under the Affordable Care Act, but the last 50 years under Medicaid and Medicare,’’ said Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California.
With 13.5 Million On Medi-Cal, California Has Greatest Stakes In ACA’s Future
If the health law is dismantled, California would have to decide whether to kick millions off the Medi-Cal rolls or cover them with state tax money.
Warren Says Big Pharma Has Hijacked Cures Bill: ‘I Know Difference Between Compromise And Extortion’
Among aspects of the legislation that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., finds problematic are a provision that would roll back requirements for doctors to report some “Sunshine Act” payments from drug companies, a measure that would permit drug companies to market drugs for unapproved uses as legalized fraud and provisions designed to speed approval for stem cell therapies.
Tom Price, Vocal And Dogged Opponent Of Health Law, Picked To Lead HHS
Rep. Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia has led calls for dramatically cutting federal programs, particularly for low- and moderate-income Americans, and for repealing and replacing Obamacare, which he has called “monstrous legislation.”