KFF HEALTH NEWS – President Donald Trump’s firings at the Department of Health and Human Services included the entire office that sets federal poverty guidelines, which determine whether tens of millions of Americans are eligible for health programs such as Medicaid, food assistance, child care, and other services, former staff said.
The small team, with technical data expertise, worked out of HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, or ASPE.
Their dismissal mirrored...
THE GRANITE GROK – The topic of Joe Biden’s mental acuity, or lack thereof, is taking on a new life with the release of tell-all books written by White House insiders from the Biden Administration.
These books should come in a series called the Hypocrisy Dialogues, as the writers are the same people who defended Biden’s mental condition for four years.
The book garnering the majority of interest is “Uncharted,” written by Chris Whipple.
Whipple is a...
While you may not know these dyes by name, they can show up in your foods. Red No. 40, for example, can be found in salami, Yellow No. 6 in chicken bullion and Blue No. 1 in canned peas.
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has advised taking vitamin A to fight measles. A Texas hospital is now treating children with toxic levels of the supplement in their bodies.
KFF HEALTH NEWS – As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California’s U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed onto legislation with a simple aim:
Provide federal assistance to first responders diagnosed with service-related cancer.
The Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act is considered crucial by its supporters, with climate change fueling an increase in wildfire frequency and firefighting deemed carcinogenic by the World Health Organization. Firefighters have a 14% higher...
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, wrote to a New York Times reporter.
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Seven tigers were seized from a private residence in Pahrump on Wednesday morning, leading to the arrest of Karl Mitchell, the owner of Big Cats Entertainment, for resisting arrest.
Mitchell, who claims to have rescued six of the tigers from Joe Exotic, the infamous figure from the "Tiger King" series, said he loves his animals and believes he has the right to keep them at his home despite allegations from authorities.
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CITY JOURNAL – In his confirmation hearing as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that U.S. health-care spending represents a “20 percent tax on the entire economy.”
Rather than engage in a “divisive debate about who pays,” he suggested the nation ask, “Why are health-care costs so high in the first place?”
Kennedy offered his own answer: “chronic disease,” to which “90 percent of health-care spending” is devoted.
He specifically pointed to...