Tag: Health

Let's hope conservative members in both chambers take up the mantle of freer markets in health insurance and move the public, and the policy, in a better direction. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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With Senate healthcare bill in the picture, Obamacare debate hinges on community rating

Hadley Heath Manning · June 22, 2017 6:07 pm

The Senate's Obamacare repeal bill abolishes these taxes and returns much-needed purchasing power to taxpayers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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The Senate healthcare bill cuts taxes for millions of middle-income families

elizabeth-mckee · June 22, 2017 3:42 pm

This public health victory is too important to leave to chance and guesswork. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Youth smoking is down, but thanks to what?

Joel Nitzkin · June 21, 2017 9:46 pm

What's more, both the drugmakers and federal medical authorities have repeatedly acknowledged the abortifacient possibilities of some drugs and devices labeled "contraceptives." (AP Photo/Margery Beck)

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Thanks to feminists, a medical journal is publishing flat-out falsities about contraception and abortion

Helen Alvaré · June 21, 2017 6:36 pm

Individuals from Brazil, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Mexico were locked in the truck's cargo area. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt)

Border Patrol finds illegal immigrants locked inside U-Haul on 100-degree day

Anna Giaritelli · June 21, 2017 6:13 pm

Bono of U2, performing here at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 9 in Manchester, Tenn, offered encouragement to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise in a video shared to the wounded congressman's account Tuesday. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

U2 ‘so grateful’ Steve Scalise and others survived shooting

Daniel Chaitin · June 21, 2017 3:09 am

The list of reasons why Planned Parenthood needs to be immediately defunded is long and egregious. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

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Defunding Planned Parenthood needs to take priority in the Senate healthcare bill

Kristan Hawkins · June 20, 2017 6:00 pm

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., is improving in health, Speaker Paul Ryan said, and is now talking and texting. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Paul Ryan: Steve Scalise is talking, texting

Joseph Lawler · June 20, 2017 5:28 pm

President Trump said Tuesday Otto Warmbier, the American college student held captive by North Korea, should have been brought home by the U.S. months earlier. (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg)

Trump swipes at Obama: Otto Warmbier ‘should have been brought home a long time ago’

Sarah Bedford · June 20, 2017 3:45 pm

The only responsible course of action for Republicans is to end these subsidies right now, and get to work implementing a healthcare agenda that doesn't rely on legally dubious insurer bailouts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Health insurer bailouts have gone on long enough

Sally Pipes · June 19, 2017 6:34 pm

"That's the way it goes. It's human nature," the president said. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Why the GOP is struggling to repeal Obamacare

James Wallner · June 19, 2017 12:52 pm

President Trump speaks about the shooting of House Majority Whip Steve Scales of La. at a baseball practice. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump on Scalise: ‘He’s in some trouble … he’s going to be OK, we hope’

Alex Pappas · June 15, 2017 3:37 pm