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Trump's ACA plan caught in GOP crosshairs |
President Trump wanted to push congressional Republicans on a plan to extend the enhanced ObamaCare subsidies for two years. That plan is reportedly now in jeopardy amid intense GOP pushback. |
"Until President Trump makes an announcement himself, any reporting about the Administration's healthcare positions is mere speculation," White House spokesman Kush Desai said. Affordability has been at the front of mind of the White House, especially after the Democratic victories in elections earlier this month. Rising health care costs and the looming expiration of the enhanced subsidies—which would send premium payments soaring— would be a potent weapon for Democrats to run on. Polling shows extending the enhanced subsidies is politically popular, and the White House likely realized the president needed to act. "Health care is a topic of discussion that's happening very frequently and robustly inside the West Wing right now," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. "The president is very much involved in these talks and he's very focused on unveiling a health care proposal that will fix the system and will bring down costs for consumers. As for the details of those discussions, I'll let the president speak for himself." But conservatives in Congress have been railing against the enhanced subsidies for months, and the Affordable Care Act has been politically toxic to the GOP for a decade and a half. Republicans say the law is failing, and they would rather end it and start fresh than do anything to prop it up. Moderate House Republicans floated a plan late last week to extend the enhanced subsidies for two years and enact changes designed to cut down on the fraud and abuse Republicans have said is rampant. Trump's idea, as originally leaked, would have been much similar to the moderate plan than to the ideas pitched in the Senate. But that was apparently too much for Republicans to support. |
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Abortion is illegal again in North Dakota after the state Supreme Court reversed a decision from a lower court on Friday, allowing a near-total ban to take effect. The law makes it illegal for anyone to perform an abortion, though it exempts individual patients. Violating the ban is considered a class C felony, so physicians would be subject to a maximum of five years of imprisonment, a fine of $10,000, or both. … |
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The first person to contract H5N5 avian influenza, a rare strain of the disease known as bird flu, died in Washington state Friday. The state's Department of Health said in a release the resident of Grays Harbor County was an "older adult with underlying health conditions" who had been hospitalized in King County since early November. The department added that testing identified the virus as H5N5, the first such case in a … |
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has brought back everyone it laid off during the government shutdown, a top official told a California federal court Friday. The agency's Office of Human Resources on Nov. 17 emailed the 954 employees who received reduction in force (RIF) notices during the shutdown informing them that those notices had been rescinded and that they "should return to work on their next regularly … |
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Why 'subclade K' could make for a nasty flu season |
A new strain of the flu called subclade K could make for a particularly nasty flu season across the country, according to public health experts. The strain already caused Japan to declare an influenza epidemic. The United Kingdom’s flu season started a month earlier than usual, a trend also playing out across the Atlantic. U.S. flu cases have already reached numbers typically seen in December, said Cameron Wolfe, … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Here's how West Virginia's childhood vaccine law is being threatened and why it matters (Mountain State Spotlight)
- Third infant dies from whooping cough in Kentucky within 12 months (WKYT)
- Nursing home workers post 'demeaning' photos, videos of residents (Iowa Capital Dispatch)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- The doctor who falsely tied the MMR vaccine to autism takes his victory lap (MS Now)
- Kennedy sharpens vaccine attacks, without scientific backing (KFF Health News)
- More states are offering cheap health plans to farmers, with a catch (Washington Post)
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