“(Medicaid expansion) is pro-business, which is a Republican priority,” Concannon said. “It’s pro-life.” Concannon used to work alongside Hawkins as vice chair of the House health committee when he was chair. She said that while the two have been able ...
for instance, and food stamps. If you go above that income threshold, you often lose the benefit or you’ll lose some part of the benefit. I think one thing we could do is to double the threshold for means-tested progra...
The Jews did not believe that the healed man was the same person as the man who had been blind from birth, and asked his parents if the healed man was their son. The parents responded that he was, and had been born blind. Jesus identified himself as the Son of God, and the cured ...
And I told her. She was like, “Well sorry, that’s how you can become resistant and all this and all that.“ But I had it [HIV] since [I was] 15 […] and I’ve been on […] like three different ones. And when she did my resistance thing, I wasn’t resistant to anything...
Did COVID skew the data? The American Hospital Association endorses CMS’s proposal. Akin Demehin, AHA’s senior director of policy, says his organization’s concerns over the measures and how they’re used to characterize hospital performance predates the pandemic. But he argues that COVID, ...
Years ago I went to teach in an urban school in order to join black people in their quest for equality. I was naïve, unaware of my ignorance, and totally conscious of race. What I learned was to question: why always in black and white? Please look for
And that’s why the family of the man who asked this question can’t live like his parents’ family did.Haiku-nomics: Sure, we can talk about economics all day. But at some point, you want to hear some poetry, right? In that spirit, you will be introduced to a new form of Zen-...
First, women especially are sensitive about their weight. This means that many people don’t want to bring up weight gain no matter what. I don’t know if this enters a psychiatrist’s mind or not. But maybe. But what I think it really comes down to is this: psychiatrists only care ...
Display too many ads, and you lose customers. Display too few, and you don’t make enough to run the service, much less support it. Patronage and other donation-based models are marginally effective, but almost never enough for larger companies. Selling product Z in order to fund product ...
6 And Dick Armey has written that our current health care crisis is entirely the fault of federal tax policy and programs like Medicare and Medicaid. He suggests that if only the government would get out of the way then private health insurers would make sure that nearly everyone, including ...