– Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear. The Copper Courier. “the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship.” – States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules. Associated Press. “authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the […]

Now that a notorious anti-vaxxer is Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, fringe theories on vaccines are being mainstreamed at the CDC and other governmental agencies. On example is the fake thimerosal-autism connection: “Thimerosal, an ethyl-mercury based preservative, has been employed since the 1930s to keep multi-dose vials of vaccines safe and free of […]

At least one issue resolved by SCOTUS benefits the public. This ruling preserves a federal mandate for insurers to cover, without copays, certain preventive medical tests and treatment. Meanwhile Trumps bill of destruction is still alive and moving through Congress. The case reached the Supreme court through the efforts of Braidwood Management, a Christian-owned firm. […]

“Rural_Hospitals_at_Risk_of_Closing,” Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform The issue being detailed here being: Smaller and rural hospitals are under the threat of closing as the Tr__p administration cuts funding to pay for the 2017 tax break. A tax break which Trump promised it would pay for itself. It did not. So, Tr__p will keep […]

I have used commentaries from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (www.CHQPR.org) previously at Angry Bear. While they do write about healthcare, they also cover the plight of providing healthcare. They would include medical personal rural hospitals, hospitals in general, costs of healthcare, and how the US government supports healthcare. Today, the issues […]

Earlier in the article, it is said . . . Over the past decade, more than 100 rural hospitals have closed. The result of the closures being millions of Americans who live in those communities no longer have access to an emergency room, in patient care, much less doctors. This is healthcare and hospital services […]

About six years ago, I had my genome sequenced at 30-50x coverage by Veritas. It cost me $200. For an additional $100, I purchased my variant call file, which identified all the differences between my genome sequence and the reference human genome sequence. A friend of mine then built a spreadsheet for me so I […]

Charles Gaba (former Michigan neighbor) at ACA Signups gives an excellent take on what is going to happen once subsidies disappear at year end, cuts to Medicaid, and increased premiums for ACA insurance. And yes, I said increased ACA insurance premiums. Charles states there will be people leaving the ACA due to premium increases. I […]

The United States already had the highest rate of child poverty compared to other wealthy, developed nations. According to the most recent data from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The U.S. child poverty rate was 20.8 percent, and the average for similar countries excluding the United States was 11.2 percent using data […]

Brief piece on which employees are mostly impacted by cuts in Medicaid. And a state statement from a Senator from Oklahoma who basically says, “no worries, they could just get employer-based healthcare insurance.” Which if this were true, why would they take Medicaid? It is far easier and less of a bother, if they could […]