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Hopes for solving a major health insurance issue are fading in Washington. The Senate on Thursday rejected two bills that would have addressed expiring COVID-era subsidies.
At the Senate HELP Committee hearing, Long COVID activists demand the disease be declared a national emergency. Screengrab from Sen. Bernie Sanders' YouTube video Only 10 minutes into the hearing, activists stepped into the center of the floor, holding ...
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'How can you be that ignorant?': RFK Jr. takes it hard on the chin as senator grills him over his incompetence in Senate hearing
During a Senate Finance Committee hearing several weeks ago in September, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) harshly lambasted RFK Jr. over his incompetence as HHS Secretary, calling him out on his ignorance.
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Senate rejects extension of health care subsidies as costs are set to rise for millions of Americans
The Senate has rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
The Senate rejected rival partisan health plans Thursday, three weeks before premiums for some Americans enrolled in Affordable Care Act exchanges are due to more than double.
Robert Moffit, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Did you know that four months before the world had ever heard of COVID-19—on Sept. 3, 2019—authorities in the Veneto region of ...
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Republicans mull Obamacare extension after Senate votes down two bills
It remains unclear whether the chamber will advance a proposal before year's end and whether such a move would have the support of the Senate.
Angela Meriquez Vázquez said she used to be an active and healthy runner. But when she contracted COVID-19 in March 2020, her condition continued declining long after the initial infection. She had severe blood clots and mini-strokes. She struggled with ...
Sen. Roger Marshall’s voice was shaking with emotion as he made the case for speedy and focused research into long COVID. Marshall, the junior senator from Kansas, is a Republican and a medical doctor. But addressing the first-ever Senate hearing on long ...
The first Senate committee hearing on the origins of COVID-19 began this week. The bipartisan hearing was first announced in March by Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Gary Peters (D-MI) as a joint investigation into the origins of COVID, among other things.