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| Mar 31, 2026 | Social Security needs money to fix its shortfall. The question is, who will pay? | As Social Security faces a looming funding shortfall, it’s up to lawmakers to find a way to shore up its financial outlook.
At a recent Senate committee hearing, lawmakers presented their ideas for fixing the program, including creating a n... |
| Mar 25, 2026 | The Casey Means Surgeon General Nomination Appears To Be In Trouble | It’s somewhat stunning to realize that the United States has been operating with Surgeon Generals that are merely “acting” in the role or “performing the duties of” since January 20th of 2025. The last Senate-confirmed SG was Dr. Vivek Murt... |
| Feb 4, 2026 | They sold out to Trump and await history’s verdict (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, followed by the victim-blaming slanders from Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, may finally have exhausted the public’s patience with the Trump administratio... |
| Jan 28, 2026 | ACIP Chair Wonders Aloud If We Should Really Be Vaccinating For Polio These Days | The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee for vaccines continues to be visited upon all of us. It’s really important to keep in mind that during his confirmation hearings, Kenne... |
| Dec 23, 2025 | Cornell Survey: Experts Warn HSA Conversion and Small Premiums Threaten ACA Affordability | Source: Cornell Health Policy Center Insight Panel
What You Should Know:
– A new survey from the Cornell Health Policy Center reveals that 70% of health policy scholars believe converting ACA subsidies into Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) wo... |
| Dec 17, 2025 | ACA Subsidy Deadlock Threatens Millions with Soaring Health Premiums | Millions of Americans face drastic health insurance cost increases. Enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expire January 1. Senate efforts to extend relief or offer alternatives failed. Premiums could more than double for many. A bip... |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Finally: Rep. Haley Stevens Files Articles Of Impeachment For RFK Jr. | We’ve obviously done a ton of coverage on RFK Jr. as the head of Health and Human Services because, well, he’s an unmitigated disaster. Between all the chaos he’s created with his hiring/firing practices at HHS and its child agencies, the m... |
| Dec 11, 2025 | IRS releases health savings account expansion details under Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ | The U.S. Department of the Treasury and IRS have released health savings account expansion details enacted under President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill.”
The guidance covers changes to HSA eligibility via high-deductible health plans.... |
| Dec 11, 2025 | The Senate voted down dueling health proposals. Here’s what’s at stake for Americans | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON
NEW YORK (AP) — When senators voted on rival health bills Thursday, they had two chances to address expiring COVID-era subsidies that will result in millions of Americans saddled wit... |
| Nov 17, 2025 | Senate Republican pitches swapping enhanced ACA tax credits with health savings accounts | Sen. Bill Cassidy proposed replacing enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits with pre-paid Health Savings Accounts.
The Louisiana Republican’s proposal comes as lawmakers scramble to find a remedy for skyrocketing costs of Obamacar... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Trump says he’ll designate antifa as a terrorist group but offers few details | By SEUNG MIN KIM, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said early Thursday that he plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”
Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leani... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Social Security marks its 90th anniversary — here’s what could happen to future benefits | As Social Security marks the 90th anniversary of the program’s creation, the benefits millions of Americans receive may be poised to change.
The trust funds the program relies on to help pay benefits face a shortfall in the next decade, whi... |
| Apr 7, 2025 | School-age child dies in Texas measles outbreak; health chief Kennedy now calls vaccine best protection | WASHINGTON: A second child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday (Apr 6), in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and has spread across 22 states.
The school-aged child... |
| Mar 17, 2025 | Health | Scientists say NIH officials told them to scrub mRNA references on grants | Scientists relayed their experiences on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retaliation by the Trump administration.
A senior official at the National Cancer Institute confirmed that NIH acting Director Matthew Memoli sent a... |
| Jan 4, 2025 | Trump-backed Republican Mike Johnson re-elected speaker of US House | WASHINGTON: Republican Mike Johnson was returned as speaker of the US House of Representatives on Friday (Jan 3) with the crucial backing of incoming president Donald Trump, ending a bitter standoff that threatened to see the 2025 session o... |
| Nov 2, 2024 | Senators release framework of site-neutral legislation for hospital outpatient departments | Senators Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., Nov. 1 released a policy framework detailing a plan to impose site-neutral payments on hospitals. Site-neutral payment policies would require Medicare to pay the same rate for service... |
| Jun 4, 2024 |
To emphasize flood insurance costs, senator cites reverse mortgage borrower | With flood insurance premiums commanding ever-higher prices, a U.S. senator recently described a hardship faced by a constituent who endured challenges with higher flood insurance costs while keeping a reverse mortgage in good standing.
The... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Health | FDA finalizes rule to increase oversight of lab tests | By Lauren Clason, CQ-Roll Call
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday finalized a rule to regulate most tests developed in a lab, in a move that observers expect will face legal challenges and prompt intervention from Congr... |
| Feb 16, 2024 | National Politics | In fight over Medicare payments, the hospital lobby shows its strength | Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News, Colleen DeGuzman | KFF Health News (TNS)
In the battle to control health care costs, hospitals are deploying their political power to protect their bottom lines.
The point of contention: For decades, Medicare... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Louisiana had the worst natural disaster displacement in the country last year | Data: Census Bureau; Map: Axios Visuals
Louisiana had the biggest percentage of people who said they were displaced last year because of a natural disaster, per the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.
8.3% of Louisianans said they were displace... |
| Jun 15, 2023 | With student loan forgiveness in limbo, here's how the GOP wants to fix college debt | Millions of Americans with student debt are in limbo as they wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the Biden administration's student-debt relief program. But in the meantime, some Republican lawmakers are proposing their own methods for ta... |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Data Broker Registries in Bills: the ADPPA and the DELETE Act | Tennessee just enacted the United States’ eighth comprehensive state privacy law. Just days before that, Indiana’s governor signed a comprehensive privacy bill, which enters into effect on Jan. 1, 2026. As other privacy bills are in discuss... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Panera Bread will use palm-scanning technology for its loyalty program | Panera Bread is rolling out palm scanners that will link customers' handprints to their loyalty accounts — a move the company paints as convenient but that privacy advocates have decried.
The biometric-gathering technology, developed by Ama... |
| Sep 23, 2022 | 2B3D Aims To Reduce Veteran Suicide In The Metaverse, With Virtual Reality Mental Health Therapies | By Christos Makridis |
| May 27, 2022 | Republican senators want to ban Apple and Google from hosting apps that accept China's digital yuan stablecoin | Republican senators have drafted a bill that would ban China's digital yuan from app stores.
Apple and Google would be barred from hosting apps that accept digital yuan as a form of payment.
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Three Republican senators have laun... |
| Apr 20, 2022 | Austin Whole Foods unveils pay-by-palm service for grocery shoppers | Originally Published by:
Disney makes big announcement on masking up at Orlando theme park Couple takes leap of faith with business venture – and it's paying off Construction industry hammered hard by two massive shortages
Whole Foods shopp... |
| Feb 8, 2022 | Cassidy: Within a Year We Went from American Energy Independence to Groveling before OPEC | 02.08.22 Cassidy: Within a Year We Went from American Energy Independence to Groveling before OPEC This is About Preserving and Creating Louisiana Jobs, Not Sending Them Elsewhere
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), today h... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Cassidy, Energy Committee Republicans Introduce Bill to Bolster Strategic Petroleum Reserve | 12.01.21
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), John Barrasso (R-WY), Steve Daines (R-MT), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Hoeven (R-ND), James Lankford (R-OK), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Roger Ma... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Cassidy, Cotton, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Blacklist Companies that Provide AI Technology to the Chinese Military | 11.16.21
WASHINGTON - Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) today urged Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to blacklist Chinese Artificial Intelligence companie... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Congress Tries To Ram The Ill-informed INFORM Bill Into The Must-pass NDAA | Congress is at it again, trying to legislate without bothering to understand the problems they are ostensibly trying to fix. This time it’s with the INFORM Consumers Act, S.B. 936, which, instead of debating further, some of its sponsors ar... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Congress Tries To Ram The Ill-informed INFORM Bill Into The Must-pass NDAA | Congress is at it again, trying to legislate without bothering to understand the problems they are ostensibly trying to fix. This time it's with the INFORM Consumers Act, S.B. 936, which, instead of debating further, some of its sponsors ar... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | New House bill aims to shore up US API production in response to pandemic shortages | Amidst heavy demand for drugs and vaccines throughout the world, a new House bill, dubbed the PREPARE ACT of 2021, would create a national stockpile of active pharmaceutical ingredients and prevent supply chain shortages.... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | Bill Cassidy : Cassidy Blast White House on Harm of Backwards Energy Policy | 09.29.21
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today delivered a speech on the Senate Floor lambasting President Joe Biden's backward energy policy that has resulted in skyrocketing inflation, rising energy prices, and U.S. jo... |
| Aug 17, 2021 | Cassidy, Inhofe, Colleagues Condemn Biden Choosing OPEC Over American Energy Workers | 08.17.21
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), James Inhofe (R-OK), and 22 Senate Republicans condemned President Biden's decision to beg the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to boost oil production t... |
| Aug 15, 2021 | Amazon wants your palm prints. But lawmakers are asking why. | A bipartisan group of senators sent Amazon a letter questioning its use of biometric data.
The tech giant introduced Amazon One, a palm-print scanner, last year.
Lawmakers raised questions about data privacy and security.
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| Aug 14, 2021 | Amazon wants your palm prints. But lawmakers are asking why. | Amazon is under regulatory scrutiny for its palm-print scanning technology. Reuters
A bipartisan group of senators sent Amazon a letter questioning its use of biometric data.
The tech giant introduced Amazon One, a palm-print scanner, last ... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | Senate Energy Committee Advances Energy Infrastructure Bill, Cassidy Secures Wins for Louisiana's Energy Future | 07.14.21
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, voted to advance a bill to invest in the energy and outdoor infrastructure of the United States to deploy... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Cassidy: ‘Remove the Bullseye from the Back of My Hardworking Constituents' | 07.13.21
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today delivered a speech on the Senate Floor highlighting the hypocrisy of the Biden administration's energy policy while average gas prices have soared beyond $3.00.
'It's been o... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Cassidy Announces $2.8 Million Grant to McNeese State to Create LNG Center of Excellence in Lake Charles | 06.17.21
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) today announced the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to McNeese State University Foun... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Cassidy Announces $109 Million in Energy Revenue Sharing for Louisiana | 03.30.21
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), today announced that Louisiana is receiving $109,948,761.59 in revenue from the Department of Interior from energy produced in the Gulf of Mexico during Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. T... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Can You Trust Digital Health Firms To Trust You? | When you're alone and scared, even the "pseudo-compassion" of an AI chatbot can provide comfort, but ... [+] building lasting trust requires much more.getty |
| Feb 14, 2021 | The final day of the Trump impeachment trial was shaped by McConnell, Democrats, and breakaway GOP senators | Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin. Senate Television via AP
Democrats asked GOP senators to put aside politics to convict Trump, but it wasn’t enough.
The effort to convict Trump for “incitement of insurrection” fell short by... |
| Dec 29, 2020 | What Seniors Need To Know About The December Stimulus Package | Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to his office after leaving the Senate Floor on ... [+] December 21Getty Images |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Explainer: The high-profile 2021 bills that may change Amazon’s business model | The oddest case — and the bill with maybe the greatest likelihood to pass — is a consumer bill in California called AB 3263 that its proponents claim would hold e-commerce companies liable for defective products sold on their stores — just ... |
| Dec 11, 2020 | Explainer: The high-profile 2021 bills that may change Amazon’s business model | This coming year might be when Amazon has to face serious product liability legislation.
Courts have almost never found e-commerce platforms like Amazon liable for defective or counterfeit products sold through third-party sellers. Players ... |
| Jul 31, 2020 | Proposal: $1,000 Stimulus Checks For Individuals & Dependents—How Does It Compare To The $1,200 Check Proposal? | Senate Republicans proposed another stimulus check bill yesterday, the Coronavirus Assistance for American Families (CAAF) Act. Stimulus checks under the CAAF Act would provide $1,000 to eligible adults and dependents. As an example, an eli... |
| Jul 13, 2020 | Proposal: $5,000 Advance Of The Child Tax Credit In The Next Stimulus Bill? | Last year, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) looked to pass a parental leave plan that would allow parents to receive an advance of $5,000 from their Child Tax Credit when they gave birth or adopted a child. |
| Nov 6, 2019 | As Congress works to curb surprise medical bills, N.Y.’s fix gets examined | New York was among the first to tackle the issue. In 2015, it passed a surprise billing law that uses “baseball-style” arbitration as a way to settle payment disputes between insurance companies and doctors. Under this approach, which is us... |
| Nov 1, 2019 | How does Michael Bennet intend to tackle surprise medical billing? | Emanuel asked Bennet about how he would tackle the issue of surprise medical billing, where patients receive a bill for a procedure or test which they believed was covered by insurance. It can happen when during an emergency, the patient ge... |
| Jun 12, 2019 | How will we pay for the coming generation of potentially curative gene therapies? | We have arrived at a special moment in health care. Innovative, life-changing gene therapies are here that will cure or ease debilitating diseases. Yet these expensive treatments are entering a market structure that was not built to price t... |
| Jun 5, 2018 | Every state needs a database with all health insurance claims, not just some | California spends approximately $367 billion a year on health care. That’s more than the gross domestic product of South Africa or Denmark. It’s more than the state spends on six years of K-12 education, or 23 years of transportation. In ot... |
| Apr 1, 2018 | Is the Trump administration undermining value-based care? | First, let’s evaluate the various pronouncements that seem to be anathema to payment reform and value-based care when Trump took office.
Post-election, Trump’s pick for CMS administrator, Seema Verma, said much of the same on the value-base... |
| Mar 22, 2018 | 340B is a well-intentioned drug discount program gone awry | Hospitals and clinics serving high-risk, high-need patient populations, including low-income and uninsured individuals, have long benefitted from a federal program that allows them to buy medicines from drug makers at a steep discount.
But ... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | Will the Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal and replace proposal share the fate of similar GOP efforts? | They are racing the clock to round up the needed 50 votes — and there are 52 Senate Republicans.
An earlier attempt to replace the ACA this summer fell just one vote short when Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Jo... |
| Sep 18, 2017 | Column:: The GOP’s last-ditch Obamacare repeal bill may be the worst one yet | The Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act is back, a zombie again on the march weeks after it was declared dead. The newest incarnation is Cassidy-Graham, named after chief sponsors Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Lindsey Graham... |
| Feb 27, 2017 | Trump’s Pick for Medicare and Medicaid Wants to Cut Mandatory Maternity Coverage | Seema Verma, President Donald Trump's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has built a career on finding ways to break down the government's role in health care. So it wasn't all that surprising when, at her nomin... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | Trump in 30 Seconds Archive Nov. 2016 – Jan. 31, 2017 | advertisement
Tuesday, Jan. 31 A meeting on price
Pharma executives met with President Trump this morning to talk drug pricing, and he vowed to make it easier for smaller companies to compete. Trump also said he would streamline the drug ap... |
| Are you worried about landing that first job out of college? Here’s a look at the ‘most employable’ degrees | With college costs climbing, more students and their families are looking for schools and degree programs that offer the best path to employment.
One recent study found that a bachelor’s degree in mathematics gives students the highest chan... |
| How does Michael Bennet intend to tackle surprise medical billing? | Ezekiel Emanuel interviews Democratic Presidential Candidate Micheal Bennet at the HLTH conference on Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Colorado Senator and 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bennet was at the second annual HLTH conferenc... |
| Republicans celebrate after Supreme Court scraps Biden student loan relief program | Republican leaders and presidential candidates applauded the Supreme Court decision striking down President Joe Biden’s student loan relief program.
Former Vice President Mike Pence touted that three justices nominated by the Trump-Pence ad... |
| Is college really worth it? Here’s why it’s so hard to figure out the return on investment | Coming out of the pandemic, it’s more important than ever for students and families to find colleges that offer the best value.
However, determining the return on your investment is somewhat subjective, one expert says. |
| As Congress works to curb surprise medical bills, N.Y.’s fix gets examined | Lobbying campaigns and legislative battles have been underway for months as Congress tries to solve the problem of surprise billing when patients face often exorbitant costs after they unknowingly receive care from an out-of-network doctor ... |
| Is the Trump administration undermining value-based care? | Last year, the Trump administration made it clear that it took a different perspective on value-based care than the Obama administration. Based on its actions in 2017, it seemed as though it wanted to erode the previous administration’s pro... |
| Covid relief bill pays extra $300 a week in jobless benefits, extends aid for 4 months | A $748 billion bill issued Monday by a bipartisan group of senators would extend expiring unemployment programs by four months and pay a $300 weekly boost to jobless benefits.
The legislation, the Bipartisan COVID-19 Emergency Relief Act of... |
| Will the Graham-Cassidy ACA repeal and replace proposal share the fate of similar GOP efforts? | Republican efforts in Congress to “repeal and replace” the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again.
While the chances for this last-ditch measure appear iffy, many GOP senators are rallying around a proposal by Sens. Linds... |
| Why benefit increases prompted by the Social Security Fairness Act may be difficult to implement | A new law, the Social Security Fairness Act, provides benefit increases for more than 3.2 million individuals including certain teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public servants.
Yet the Social Security Administration has sa... |
| Build Back Better would extend tax credit boost for millions of low-income Americans | President Joe Biden temporarily expanded the earned income tax credit — a write-off for low- to moderate-income families — through the American Rescue Plan in March.
The latest version of the Democrats’ $1.75 trillion social and climate spe... |
| Stolen goods sold on Amazon, eBay and Facebook are causing havoc for major retailers | Over the past year, large-scale robberies have swept through stores like Louis Vuitton in San Francisco's Union Square and a nearby Nordstrom, which was robbed by 80 people.
Law enforcement and retailers have warned the public that this isn... |