Healthcare
112 Degrees With No Water: Puerto Rican Hospitals Battle Life And Death Daily
“Every day across Puerto Rico, with its shattered power grid, hospitals are waging a life-and-death battle to keep their patients from getting sicker in the tropical heat. Now two weeks after the storm, about three-quarters of Puerto Rico’s hospitals remain on emergency power. This creates dangerous conditions for critically ill patients.” More …
Desperation Grows in Puerto Rico’s Poor Communities Without Water or Power
“The health crisis is intensifying two weeks after Hurricane Maria, and government aid is slow. ‘We could see significant epidemics,’ a health expert warned.” More …
Puerto Rico Devastation Could Lead to National Public Health Crisis
“Some critical prescription drugs are only made on the island, and Hurricane Maria halted production at dozens of pharmaceutical factories.” More …
Medicare to Pay for Tax Cuts: Senate Republicans’ Budget Proposes Cutting $450 Billion from Medicare
“Senate Republicans are proposing something that President Donald Trump promised never to do: cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, the federal health program that covers elderly Americans.” More …
Trump Administration Is Pulling Out of Obamacare Enrollment Events
“The Department of Health and Human Services has told states that for the first time, it will not be sending its regional directors to help states with planning for the upcoming open enrollment period.” More …
The Ongoing, Quiet Repeal of Obamacare
Despite failed votes, Obamacare is being dismantled internally by the Trump Administration. More …
Kansas Won’t Expand Medicaid, Denying a Lifeline to Rural Hospitals and Patients
Rural hospitals are closing which causes employers to flee while the residents are left behind to sink into poverty. Welcome to Sam Brownback’s Kansas. More …
How the Trump Administration Is Reshaping Healthcare — Without Congress
“While Congress tussles over Obamacare, the Trump administration is quietly pressing ahead with plans to gut major Obama-era rules and relax federal oversight of swaths of the health care industry. Top health officials have already signaled their intention to end mandatory programs making hospitals more accountable for their patients’ health, slowed the transition to a system that pays doctors based on quality rather than quantity, and indicated they will reverse a high-profile rule blocking nursing homes from forcing residents to sign away their right to sue.” More …
This Gift Voucher Might Just Get You a Kidney
“About 30 hospitals participate in this national program.” More …