Tag: Health

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is no longer in the intensive care unit at MedStar Washington Hospital Center as he continues to recover from being shot in the hip during a congressional baseball practice game last Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rep. Steve Scalise out of ICU after baseball shooting, remains hospitalized in fair condition

Al Weaver · June 23, 2017 5:38 pm

It's no surprise that marketing works. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Are Big Pharma gifts to physicians an expensive problem, or a red herring?

Brian Joondeph · June 23, 2017 12:00 pm

Without a president to take the lead, painstaking work must be done by legislative leaders to attract such a rally. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Senate Republicans need to work on selling their healthcare bill to voters

Quin Hillyer · June 22, 2017 8:54 pm

With this bill, Senate Republicans are betraying the promises they made on the campaign trail for the better part of seven years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Senate Republicans embrace Obamacare in their healthcare bill

Sally Pipes · June 22, 2017 6:24 pm

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)

Beltway Confidential

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)

Beltway Confidential

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)

Beltway Confidential

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)

Beltway Confidential

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)

Beltway Confidential

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