Plus, Trump threatened to close social media companies. But can he?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senate GOP Has No Plan To Help Millions Of Americans Losing Health Insurance During Pandemic |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As millions of Americans continue to become unemployed and lose their health insurance during this unprecedented public health crisis, Senate Republicans still see no need to act on health care.
“I’d like us to put in place a better program than the one we have, the Obamacare program, but getting that in place for the country to take advantage of in the next few weeks is just not very likely,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said.
Staff for Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) simply referred HuffPost to previous comments she made to the Bangor Daily News that she was “disappointed” in President Donald Trump for not allowing a special enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act. She did not comment on Congress taking further action on health care specifically.
Sen. Lamar Alexander’s office declined to comment on the matter entirely, saying it had “nothing to add” at this time. The Tennessee Republican is the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee in the Senate.
The implication of leaving millions uninsured is a matter of life and death. A 2019 report on Medicaid expansion found there could have been 15,600 fewer deaths if all 50 states expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. There’s a growing body of research that has shown expanded public insurance has improved health outcomes, increasing preventative care and saving patients with chronic illnesses, like kidney disease. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey is calling on the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to criminally charge the white police officer who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck before he died. “I’ve wrestled with one fundamental question: Why is the man who killed George Floyd not in jail?” Frey said in a press conference Wednesday. Floyd, who was Black, died following his encounter with Minneapolis police on Monday. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened social media companies with new regulation or even shuttering a day after Twitter added fact checks to two of his tweets. The president claimed that tech giants “silence conservative voices,” and threatened to regulate them, despite not being able to. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Jennifer Carroll Foy is jumping into the 2021 gubernatorial race in Virginia, making her the first Black woman to run for the job in 30 years. If elected, she would be the first Black female governor anywhere in the country. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Join author Zach Carter for a Q&A about his critically acclaimed John Maynard Keynes biography and the lessons we can learn from the British economist. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| HuffPost is now a part of Verizon Media Group. On May 25, 2018 we introduced a new Privacy Policy which will explain how your data is used and shared. Learn more.
Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? — Subscribe here! ©2020 HuffPost | 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates
from HuffPost
Feedback | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
No comments:
Post a Comment