“Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership,” said the employees, “HHS policies are placing the health of all Americans at risk, regardless of their politics.” After a deadline passed for the nation’s top health official to pledge to protect the federal public health workforce, more than 1,000 current and former employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services […]
“Hospitals count on Medicaid to keep their doors open,” said healthcare advocacy group Protect Our Care. “Medicaid accounts for one fifth of spending on hospitals, one fifth of hospital discharges, and at least one in five inpatient days in nearly every state.” These are all the hospitals in America that are already facing cuts and […]
[content id=”79272″] “This isn’t shared sacrifice—it’s class warfare,” said one policy expert. Congressional Democrats and policy experts blasted U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers’ recently signed megabill on Monday in response to a new nonpartisan analysis about its varied impacts on American households. U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.), Senate Minority […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging five southeast Alaska commercial fisherman with conspiring to illegally harvest halibut, in violation of the Lacey Act. According to court documents, Jonathan Pavlik, 43, of Yakutat, Vincent Jacobson, 51, of Yakutat, Kyle Dierick, 36, of Yakutat, Michael Babic, 42, of Cordova, and […]