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House Republicans Present Obamacare Alternatives

WASHINGTON —House Republicans are unveiling new proposals to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care law, as Speaker Paul Ryan sought to showcase a GOP governing agenda amid the tumult of the presidential campaign. The plan, revealed Wednesday, (June 22) relies on individual tax credits to allow people to buy coverage from private insurers, […]

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NC Program Helps Farmworkers Get Health insurance

DUNN, N.C. — Seasonal agricultural workers were just finishing a meal after a long day of planting sweet potato seeds when Julie Pittman pulled up to their camp. Pittman, a paralegal with the Farmworker Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina, worked to get their attention. The health care law that passed in 2010 requires […]

Philadelphia Soda Tax Strategy : Stress Needs, Not Health

PHILADELPHIA —In the city of cheese steaks and soft pretzels, a soda tax that regulates people’s behavior is a hard sell. But Philadelphia is on the verge of becoming only the second city in the country to pass a tax on soft drinks, thanks to the mayor’s creative approach to push the plan as a […]

Blacks & Latinos Raise Concerns About Aided-Death Law

SAN DIEGO — California became the latest state to allow the terminally ill to legally choose to end their lives on June 9, raising worries among some people in the state’s large Latino and African-American communities that poor people with serious illnesses could be pressured to take lethal drugs as a cheaper option to long-term […]

Reports on Deaths of 9 Disabled Went to Defunct Private Email Address

MINEOLA, N.Y. — There may be a reason a prosecutor’s office says it never received nine reports of suspicious deaths of developmentally disabled people in state care over the past three years: A state oversight agency acknowledged on May 20 that it sent them to an assistant prosecutor’s personal email, an account that apparently had […]

72 percent of Americans in Poll Support Paid Family Leave

CHICAGO — Time off from work to care for a child or relative is codified in federal law. Now, an overwhelming majority of Americans 40 and older want that time away from the job to be paid. An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released May 20 said 72 percent support paid family […]

Pet Peeves: Complaints About Fake Service Dogs on the Rise

HOMOSASSA, Fla. — Cassie gets plenty of stares as she walks down the aisles of Home Depot, taking an occasional sniff at some of the items on the shelves or standing still while people stroke her long black hair. Her handler, Lorraine Clark, maintains a firm grasp on Cassie’s leash. Sometimes she gently tugs it […]

U.S. Hires Contractor to run ER at 3 Reservation Hospitals

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The emergency room at the only hospital on a Native American reservation in South Dakota could reopen after federal health officials hired a contractor on May 17 to provide emergency services at that and two other government-run hospitals. The Indian Health Service awarded a one-year contract to Arizona-based AB Staffing Solutions […]

Ex-Official Gets 10 Years for Theft of Health Funds for the Poor

PHOENIX — A former state official who acknowledged stealing $5.9 million from Arizona’s health care program for the poor was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for his part in a years-long fraud scheme. Michael John Veit, the former chief procurement officer for the state’s Medicaid program, was ordered to pay full restitution as […]

Myanmar Factions Bond to Fight Malaria

WASHINGTON — Setting aside decades of animosity and suspicion, senior Myanmar government and military officials have held unprecedented discussions with representatives of the main opposition party and ethnic minorities in Washington on fighting a common enemy — malaria. In a meeting, Monday (Aug. 3), also attended by the U.S. government and military, scientific researchers and […]

SC Democrats Back Medicaid Expansion

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Democrats plan to renew efforts next year to expand Medicaid eligibility in South Carolina, saying that’s the most important way to continue the work of their slain colleague, Sen. Clementa Pinckney. It will be a tough sell in a state where Republican opposition hasn’t budged since a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling […]

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Nurses Union Names “Systemic Racism” as a Health Threat

Linking racism to issues of public health, National Nurses United has issued a statement “urging all presidential candidates to address the pervasive problems of racial and economic justice that have so stained our nation.” NNU is the largest union of registered nurses in the country with 185,000 members. In the statement issued Thursday (July 23), […]

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