Declining to take up the dispute before Election Day, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by the House of Representatives and a coalition of mostly Democrat-led states to expedite review of Texas’ lawsuit seeking to invalidate the Affordable Care Act. The high court’s one-sentence order hands the Trump administration and 18 Republican-led states […]
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Announces She Is Cancer Free…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced this week that she is cancer-free after her latest treatments for pancreatic cancer. “I’m cancer-free. That’s good,” Ginsburg told CNN’s Joan Biskupic. The 86-year-old Supreme Court justice underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in August 2019 after doctors discovered a cancerous […]
Dear Pope Francis: Under the Left’s Vision of Healthcare, There Can Be No Catholic Hospitals…
Health institutions and governments should “not neglect social justice out of preoccupation for financial concerns” and should instead ensure access to health, Pope Francis said in his annual papal message for the World Day of the Sick. On their own, Francis’s comments seem unremarkable. But given his past comments on healthcare, the system in which […]
Talk About Being Petty: Schumer Blocks Measure That Would Lower Prescription Drug Prices Because “We have a whole lot of legislative ideas, not just his”…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) blocked a bill that would lower prescription drug costs, arguing that a measure that addresses other healthcare issues would be better. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) wanted a bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) to be passed unanimously on Nov. 13, but Schumer blocked the measure by objecting […]
Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans…
Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of […]
Elizabeth Warren Confirms Her Medicare for All Plan Will Cover Illegal Immigrants…
“Would you also support access to the children’s health insurance program without regard to immigration stuff?” he added. Warren immediately praised the question and gleefully reiterated that her Medicare for All plan covers “everyone,” including illegal immigrants. “I’m really glad you asked this. Medicare for All, as I put this together, covers everyone, regardless of […]
Veterans Scammed the Military Out of Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Prescription Scandal…
Five veterans have been indicted by the Justice Department for participating in one of the largest scams to target the military’s Tricare health system. The veterans, along with dozens of co-conspirators across the nation, raked in hundreds of millions of dollars by selling treatments to patients enrolled in the Tricare system, prosecutors have charged. The […]
The Myth of a Measles Crisis…
‘Something needs to be done’, declares Oxford University ethicist Alberto Giubilini in a lecture promoting his new book, The Ethics of Vaccination, in which he argues forcefully in favour of compulsory policies (in countries such as the UK) to tackle ‘the measles crisis’ he believes is currently facing Europe. According to NHS chief executive Simon […]
President Trump Announces Executive Order on Healthcare Price Transparency…
We’re here to announce new groundbreaking actions that we’re taking to dramatically increase quality, affordability, and fairness to our healthcare system. This landmark initiative continues our campaign to put American patients first. This is a truly big action. People have no idea how big it is. Some people say bigger than healthcare itself. This is […]
Your Next Doctor’s Appointment Might Be with an AI…
“I’m sorry to hear that,” says a female voice. “Are you happy to answer a few questions?” And so the consultation begins. Where’s the pain? How bad is it? Does it come and go? There’s some deliberation before you get an opinion. “This sounds like dyspepsia to me. Dyspepsia is doctor-speak for indigestion.” Doctor-speak, maybe, […]
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