Republicans have promised to repeal and replace the ACA. They are now in a position to actually do that and, low and behold, they have no replacement. They want to repeal it and wait for another 2 years to replace it. Suddenly, people are entertaining the possibility that they might actually be cut off from … Read more
US President-elect Donald Trump has picked Tom Price, a strong critic of President Obama’s healthcare reforms, as his future health secretary. The Georgia congressman and orthopaedic surgeon, 62, chairs the House of Representatives budget committee. He will play a key role in Republican plans to replace the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obamacare). In his campaign, Mr … Read more
Since the presidential election, pundits have struggled to explain Donald Trump’s upset win. Liberal columnists are united in shock that so many people voted for a man who inflamed racial, ethnic and religious tensions, insulted and mistreated women, and was deemed temperamentally unfit to be president, even by many of his supporters. Conservatives are divided. … Read more
Why so many Americans hate Hillary As an American who grew up in part overseas, I am well aware of the fact that citizens of other nations often find US politics to be, well, very strange. That’s never been truer than in this election. “After all”, many foreigners ask, “how could Americans even consider choosing … Read more
Dr. Klein is Chairman of Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, the nation’s No. 2 urology program as ranked by U. S. News & World Report. He has this to say on the PSA test. When I was training to be a urologist in the 1980s, the PSA blood test we now use to … Read more
Julian Zelizer: A stunning moment in the debate The most troubling part of the debate for many observers came when Donald Trump would not say that he will accept the results of the election. “I’ll tell you at the time—I’ll keep you in suspense, OK?” he said, words that will provoke great concern among those … Read more
U. S. government health plans spent more than $1 billion on Mylan NV’s EpiPen emergency allergic reaction treatment between 2011 and 2015, according to figures released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday. Mylan is under scrutiny for raising prices on the lifesaving EpiPen sixfold in less than a decade, making the … Read more
Donald Trump was likened to a “fool or maniac” while Hillary Clinton was dismissed as “weak and feckless” in the vice-presidential debate in Virginia. Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence clashed on a series of topics ranging from abortion to Russia. But they focused their sharp exchanges on both Mrs … Read more
U. S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Monday outlined a sweeping mental health agenda that would integrate the mental health services into the nation’s health care system. According to the plan released by the Clinton campaign, the initiatives would expand reimbursement structures in Medicare and Medicaid and a national initiative for suicide prevention would … Read more