CNN – As the pressure grows on congressional Republicans to identify cuts in Medicaid, they are crashing into a familiar problem: The changes that could save the most money would impose heavy costs on many of their own voters.
Several key House Republicans have signaled in recent days that they may try to cut Medicaid spending by rolling back the expansion in eligibility for the working poor included in the Affordable Care Act approved under...
CBS NEWS – In the U.S., thousands of donated organs never reach the patients who need them.
CBS News found that last year, one in three kidneys recovered from deceased donors were never transplanted.
Specialized organ recovery teams made more than 26 million attempts to place these kidneys with transplant centers, offering them again and again in search of a suitable match--before they were ultimately discarded as medical waste.
And it's not just kidneys. Nearly 12,000 potentially...
New York, CNN — Chili’s is ratcheting up its fight against fast food rivals with a new cheeseburger that might make McDonald’s call their lawyers.
The chain is rolling out the Big QP burger, which not only has a similar name to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder but also the same toppings: two slices of American cheese, pickles, ketchup and diced onions.
Chili’s says in a press release that its version has 85% more beef, making it “even...
HEADLINE HEALTH – For the luxury of flushing a toilet, Maryland residents pay a monthly tax.
The state’s flush tax on sewer bills is $5 a month −− or $60 annually −− under a measure aimed at upgrading wastewater treatment facilities to reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. The law exempts people who don’t live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Back in 2012, then-Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, led the charge to double the 'Whiz Tax',...
What seemed little more than a minor nuisance was actually a sprawling menace — one that a data analysis found was exposing residents to exceedingly high levels of a dangerous chemical.