Health Care Congress

Beneath the rhetoric about inflation and deficits, business investment and family farms, tax rates and benefit levels lurks the volatile question of economic redistribution. The government’s attempts to do so spark intense resistance from those who are asked to pay and amorphous skepticism even from those who get through it. And whether the polls show […]

Dental care for the elderly with health insurance. The end of the rock bottom prices on prescription drugs. New options for long-term home care. Coverage for low-income people excluded from Medicaid by ideological battles. These are just a few of the healthcare changes Democrats want to make with President Joe Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” […]

Hundreds of protesters took to the United States Capitol grounds in Washington, DC on Saturday, demanding the release of those incarcerated following the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol that led to hundreds of cases criminal and little thought on the extreme right. The event failed to draw the massive pro-Trump crowds that gathered […]

Securities – AOC announces efforts to expand federal unemployment benefits until February 2022. (Full story) – New projections on Social Security Cost of living adjustment for 2022 emerge. (Whole story) – President Biden fails to convince Sen Manchin to support the $ 3.5 billion spending bill – Seventeen states have seen increase in unemployment claims […]

image: Dr Martina Schmidt of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany seen Following Credit: ESMO Lugano, Switzerland, September 18, 2021 – Previous standards of cancer care and follow-up support may no longer meet current needs, as improvements in screening practices, early diagnosis and treatment of cancer have put long-term survival beyond five […]

While Congress is one day expected to lift the federal cannabis ban, Capitol Hill remains too busy with other issues in the current fall session to address the issue, industry observers said this week. marijuana. Questions about the upcoming catalysts for Washington, DC’s cannabis industry have been frequent in recent conversations with investors, but with […]

Sep 18, 2021 UMOST LIKE wealthy European countries, America lacks a coherent public child care system. But it’s surprisingly close to having one. During World War II, Congress established federal day care centers to encourage women to work in factories; these were then dismantled. In 1971, Congress adopted a comprehensive child care plan. But President […]

The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee last week approved its first Democrats’ $ 3.5 trillion spending plan in a 24-13 party line vote. One of President Joe Biden’s top priorities in the plan was to tackle climate change, and the panel included initiatives ranging from oil and gas reform to offshore wind companies. House action […]

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia (WVIR) – The president controls the executive branch, but cannot tell the legislature what to do and that means Congress sets its own rules. White House COVID-19 vaccine warrants are an option over the hill. The office of Virginia Senator Tim Kaine said 100% of its staff were vaccinated against COVID-19. Everyone working […]

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is on his first trip abroad since undergoing bowel surgery in July, a four-day visit to Central Europe that will not only test his health, but also provide one of the most difficult moments of his papacy – a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the kind of populist […]