KHN Morning Briefing – Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations | JAN 27 2023
KAISER HEALTH NEWS – The group, called Hive, attacked hospitals, school districts, financial firms, and other organizations and is accused of extorting over $100 million to decrypt its ransomware.
Efforts by the FBI, Justice Department, and European law enforcement have now shut Hive down.
The Washington Post: FBI Shuts Down Ransomware Gang That Targeted Schools And Hospitals
The FBI and law...
Blaze News – Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) proposed a slate of criminal justice reforms on Thursday, including making convicted child rapists eligible for execution and reducing the number of jurors required to recommend the death penalty.
At a Miami Police Benevolent Association event Thursday, DeSantis said:
"We want to make sure that we cement our reputation as being a law-and-order state and take actions as necessary to help further protect the people of the state...
KAISER HEALTH NEWS – At a meeting to simplify the nation’s covid vaccination policy, the FDA’s panel of experts could agree on only one thing: Information is woefully lacking about how often different groups of Americans need to be vaccinated.
That data gap has contributed to widespread skepticism, undervaccination, and ultimately unnecessary deaths from covid-19.
The committee voted unanimously Thursday to support the FDA’s proposal for all vaccine-makers to adopt the same strain of the virus...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is moving to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and other groups that traditionally face higher risks of HIV.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced draft guidelines that would do away with the current three-month abstinence requirement for donations from men who have sex with men. Instead, potential donors would be screened with a questionnaire that evaluates their individual risks for HIV based on...
"Make no mistake: God is not mocked" – Galations 6:7
HEADLINE HEALTH – President Joe Biden invoked a holy sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church yesterday in the course of deriding Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.
Biden's remarks, accompanied by the hand gesture known as the sign of the cross, elicited laughter from those present for his meeting with Steamfitters Local 602
of Springfield, Virginia.
The president's bizarre reference to the rite of confession came as he...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal court jury convicted a Kansas man who insisted that a death threat he made against U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner was a message from God, amid what authorities have said is a sharp rise in threats against members of Congress and their families.
Jurors found Chase Neill, 32, of Lawrence, guilty of a single count of threatening a U.S. government official. The presiding judge instructed jurors that to find Neill...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) – U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., marked the first March for Life in D.C. since the overturn of Roe v. Wade by introducing legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood.
“The nation’s largest abortion provider has no business receiving taxpayer dollars,” Boebert said in a statement. “Planned Parenthood claims these funds go to healthcare for women, but last year, Planned Parenthood performed a record number of abortions while also reducing the number...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A surge in Cuban and Nicaraguan arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico in December led to the highest number of illegal border crossings recorded during any month of Joe Biden's presidency, authorities said Friday.
The extraordinary influx came shortly before Biden introduced measures on Jan. 5 to deter Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans.
U.S. authorities stopped migrants 251,487 times along the Mexican border in December, up 7% from 234,896 times in November...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Although reprehensible hypocrite David Brock may no longer be overseeing the propagandist Media Matters, his legacy of gay-baiting still lives on.
Brock, who began as a rare unicorn—a gay Republican critic of Bill and Hillary Clinton—became the consummate opportunist: a mercenary who flipped sides to the highest bidder and morphed into one of the most strident and unscrupulous of all left-wing operatives.
While he has written at length about the betrayal, his precise reasons remain clear as mud. Nonetheless, he went from helping...
NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced a sweeping plan to expand abortion access in New York City, bolster sex education and close the race and sex gap in healthcare access and outcomes.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will open seven new abortion medication clinics across the city with both walk-in and scheduled appointments.
The Morrisania Sexual Health Clinic in the Bronx will start offering abortion pills...
NEWSWEEK – A number of abortion-rights groups have criticized the GOP after House Republicans pushed through a bill requiring an infant born during or after an attempted abortion to receive medical care.
The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act passed in a House 220-210 vote on Wednesday, with Texas' Henry Cuellar the only Democrat to support the measure.
The bill would require all health providers to give the same level of care to a baby born alive...