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11 hours ago · Rep. Ro Khanna’s Feb. 20, 2025 TikTok video.. The American Relief Act, 2025.. Vice President J.D. Vance’s X post on behalf of himself and President Donald Trump on the year-end legislative package, Dec. 18, 2024.. One of a flurry of Elon Musk’s X posts deriding the government’s year-end legislative package, Dec. 20, 2024.. Email interview with Rep. Ro …

5 days ago · Hospital-based violence intervention programs have operated in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. The public health approach to gun violence works, by many accounts.

6 days ago · Rising insurance costs are cutting deeper into family incomes and squeezing small businesses. The average annual cost of family health insurance offered by private sector companies was about $24,000, or roughly $2,000 a month, in California during 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Employers paid, on average, about two …

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15 hours ago · The future of a subsidy program for broadband internet also is uncertain. If changes to any of these programs are made, the effects will hurt rural hospitals that rely on telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and other technologies to help their patients. Other news is on a charity care settlement, the nursing home industry, and more.

Mar 11, 2025 · Zach Dyer reads this week’s news: The current bird flu outbreak is gaining momentum despite mass culling of infected poultry, and the Trump administration is embracing the conservative policy playbook known as Project 2025. Katheryn Houghton reads this week’s news: Republicans in Congress are ...

Feb 6, 2025 · The Senate has yet to confirm a Health and Human Services secretary, but things around the department continue to change at a breakneck pace to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders. Payment systems have been shut down, webpages and entire datasets have been taken offline, and workers — including those with civil service protections — have …

Feb 13, 2025 · Some of the Trump administration’s dramatic funding and policy shifts are facing major pushback for the first time — not from Congress, but from the courts. Federal judges around the country are attempting to pump the brakes on efforts to freeze government spending, shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, eliminate access to health-related …

Feb 27, 2025 · The House passed a budget plan that likely would result in major cuts to the Medicaid program. But the plan now faces a battle in the Senate, where even Republicans seem reluctant to dramatically reduce a health program that covers roughly 1 in 5 Americans. Meanwhile, federal judges and the Trump administration continue to differ over whether the …