LAW AND POLITICS

Black Democrat congresswoman indicted on charges of stealing FEMA funds

The Florida Democrat is accused of using $5 million in federal disaster relief funds to finance her 2022 congressional campaign.

Mayo Clinic remembers Vice President Richard B. Cheney, former trustee

Richard B. "Dick" Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States, served as a Mayo Clinic trustee from 1998 to 2001.

Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to ask Trump administration to commute prison sentence?

House Democrats say Ghislaine Maxwell will ask Trump to commute her sentence.

U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

Food for Thought: These Weird Food Laws Actually Still Exist in America

A long-standing law forbids the use of tomatoes in clam chowder in Massachusetts.

GOP senators want to allow direct sales of state-inspected meat and poultry on the web

FOOD SAFETY NEWS – State-inspected meat and poultry sold on the internet could soon be crossing state lines, as the federal government embraces “direct to consumer” sales. Direct-to-consumer sales are favored by the nascent “Food Freedom” movement for reducing food safety concerns. Many state and local statutes use the technique in scaling back food safety regulations for raw milk and various homemade products. Such a tactic hasn’t come up on the federal level until now. U.S. Senators...

America’s Pharmacy Benefit Managers Support Trump’s Drug Pricing Momentum

REAL CLEAR HEALTH – The Trump Administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug prices has resulted in progress on a new approach to getting brand name drug manufacturers to announce price reductions in connection with direct-to-consumer avenues for Americans to access some of their products. Selling to direct-to-consumer has been characterized by some as a way to work around consumers’ pharmacy benefits – the reality is that America’s pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) stand ready to support...

Trump’s HHS orders state Medicaid programs to help find undocumented immigrants

KFF Health News – The Trump administration has ordered states to investigate certain individuals enrolled in Medicaid to determine whether they are ineligible because of their immigration status, with five states reporting they’ve received more than 170,000 names collectively — an “unprecedented” step by the federal government that ensnares the state-federal health program in the president’s immigration crackdown. Advocates say the push burdens states with duplicative verification checks and could lead people to lose coverage...

Immigrants Worry About Losing Food Stamps: HEADLINE HEALTH

For what conceivable reason would US taxpayers provide federal benefits to non-citizens? – HEADLINE HEALTH

RFK Jr. now says there’s ‘not sufficient’ proof to show Tylenol causes autism

Flip-flopping Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems to have shredded whatever slim amount of credibility he had left.

Obamacare’s dreaded ‘death spiral’

Heard on Morning Edition – If Congress does not extend the federal subsidies set to expire in December, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that 4 million people will become uninsured in the next several years. The people who opt to go without insurance will probably be younger and healthier, Cox says, "because sicker, older people will be more motivated to keep their coverage, even if that means paying a lot more each month." It's easy to...

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