FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2017 Contact: HHS Press Office 202-690-6343 media@hhs.gov Acting Secretary Hargan declares public health emergency in NorCal due to wildfires Following President Trump’s major disaster declaration for California, Health and Human Services Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan today declared a public health […]
Trump’s vicious attacks on health care prove he’s an equal opportunity jerk. Over the past few weeks, the GOP Congress and/or the president has: hurt exchange insurance buyers by cutting funding for enrollment assistance, hurt women by permitting all employers to deny their employees access to […]
JOINT PRESS RELEASE: Assemblymembers Jim Wood and Joaquin Arambula FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 5, 2017 CONTACT: Cathy Mudge 916.319.2002 SACRAMENTO—Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) and Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) announce the first in a series of hearings of the Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems […]
From Kaiser Family Foundation Oct 06, 2017 | Laurie Sobel, Alina Salganicoff Follow @a_salganicoff on Twitter, and Caroline Rosenzweig The Trump Administration has issued new regulations that significantly broaden employers’ ability to be exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive coverage requirement. The regulation opens the door […]
Should Your Boss Dictate Your Family Planning Options? President Trump Thinks So. Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office & Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project OCTOBER 6, 2017 | 4:00 PM (ACLU Blog) President Donald Trump finally made it clear today. He believes business owners […]
The United States really is exceptional We spend more money per capita on guns, and health care, than any other country on Earth. This represents a failure of public policy of the highest order and a threat to our democracy. Let’s look at the numbers. Americans […]
Join NurseTalk and hear Wendell Potter, one-time health insurance industry insider, speak of the epiphany that transformed his life. He vividly describes a scene he witnessed at a county fairgrounds where uninsured Americans were lined up “by the hundreds” to be treated in […]
Trump doesn’t need Congress to help him sabotage Obamacare Repeal and replace is dead for now, but that won’t stop the White House from taking matters into its own hands. Khatami, Elham. (2017, September 27, 2:43 pm). Think Progress. Following the failure of the latest […]
