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The CDC director job hasn't required Senate confirmation, but that's going to change beginning in January 2025, thanks to a provision in the recent omnibus budget billopens in a new tab or window passed by Congress. On page 3,196 of the 4,155-page bill, it states that the CDC director "shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." Page 3,203 notes that this provision will take effect on Jan. 20, 2025.

(The Center Square) – A coalition of states led by Kansas has sued the Biden-Harris administration to block the federal government from providing free health care through the taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, to foreign nationals in the U.S. illegally.... DACA supporters argue recipients should be granted citizenship...Others argue those with criminal records, at a minimum, should be deported. Within the first five years of the program, nearly 80,000 DACA recipients were released into the U.S. with arrest records... If the CMS final rule takes effect Nov. 1, more than 200,000 DACA recipients would automatically become eligible......

Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order on Thursday that requires hospitals in Texas to collect information on the immigration status of patients so that the hospitals can then track costs incurred for the care of undocumented migrants. Previous guidance for hospitals did not include questions about immigration status. The executive order would mandate the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to collect this information so that the state of Texas could then bill the federal government. “Due to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ open border policies, Texas has had to foot the bill for medical costs...

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador joined a lawsuit in federal court last week to stop the Biden-Harris administration from giving Obamacare to illegal immigrants. Labrador is joined in the lawsuit by attorneys general from 14 other states, and the suit is led by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. ‘The Biden-Harris Administration has made it overwhelmingly clear that our borders are wide open, and that illegal immigration will be rewarded, said Attorney General Labrador. “The latest taxpayer-financed incentive is free healthcare. Illegal immigrants shouldn’t get a free pass into our country when so many others wait patiently and follow every legal...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday issued an executive order requiring hospitals report the annual costs of care for illegal migrants so the state can seek reimbursement from the federal government. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is directed to collect information on illegal migrants who use state hospitals for emergency and inpatient care, according to the executive order. These costs will be reported every year to Abbott’s office and the Texas Legislature in order for state officials to demand reimbursement from the Biden-Harris administration.

Americans spend more money on health care on a per capita basis than people in any other developed nation, yet almost half say they've struggled recently to pay for medical treatment or prescription drugs, according to a new study from Gallup and West Health. About 45% of those polled by the organizations said they'd recently had to skip treatment or medicine either because of cost or lack of easy access. Of those, about 8% said they also wouldn't have access to affordable care if they required it today, a group that Gallup and West Health termed "cost desperate." While 55%...

The transcript for this 6 minute video clip is below the link and image.https://x.com/VDejan0000/status/1811974823394050311 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT~~~~~Hospitals in America are legally killing people by the thousands every single day. I'm going to teach you what you need to do to prevent your loved one from dying negligently in one of these hospitals.I received over 1000 messages in the last 24 hours of patient horror stories for them or their family members of what hospital neglicence has done and all the deaths that I have encountered in my medical career seeing this happen.First and foremost, if you leave an elderly individual in...

The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London's biggest hospitals in the four weeks since Qilin's ransomware attack hit pathology services provider Synnovis. But perhaps no single person was affected as severely as Johanna Groothuizen. Hanna – the name she goes by – is now missing her right breast after her skin-sparing mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction surgery was swapped out for a simple mastectomy at the last minute. I never thought it was going to be due to a cyberattack by Russian hackers. That was not something that I would have...

The COVID-19 pandemic erased nearly two decades of life expectancy gains in America. Meanwhile, U.S. health spending per capita is at the highest level in the world.In the graphic below, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualizes life expectancy and per capita healthcare costs across several wealthy nations.Figures were compiled by Peterson-KFF, and are as of 2022.America Spends a Lot on Healthcare, For Little GainAs Peterson–KFF bluntly notes, “the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy amongst large, wealthy countries” while their per capita healthcare cost has moved past $12,500 as of 2022In fact the U.S. is an outlier for both healthcare costs...

In the US, hysterectomy is the second most commonly performed surgery among women after cesarean section; around 1 in 3 will undergo the procedure by the age of 60. But according to a new study, 1 in 5 women in the US may not need to. Around 68% of hysterectomies for benign conditions are done to treat abnormal uterine bleeding, uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Rates of hysterectomy in the US are falling, with one study reporting a 36.4% reduction in the number of hysterectomies carried out between 2003 and 2010. Still, more than 400,000 hysterectomies are carried out in the...

The health of future generations is at stakeThe summer heat wave blazing across the U.S. is set to endanger millions of infants and childrenopens in a new tab or window, who are physiologically more vulnerable than adults to its impact. Unfortunately for American families, access to pediatric care is quickly evaporating from the healthcare landscape. A variety of factors are exacerbating this problem, ranging from decreasing interest in pediatrics as a specialty to the closure of pediatric hospitals across the country. But no matter the cause, the picture is bleak. The Landscape of Pediatric Care Pediatric hospitals have been disappearing...

Almost 200 people have been charged in a nationwide operation probing false health care claims involving approximately $2.75 billion in losses, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday. Under its 2024 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action, the DOJ filed charges against 193 defendants, including 76 doctors, nurse practitioners and other licensed medical professionals in 32 different federal districts across the country. The DOJ said in a nationwide law enforcement action, the government seized “over $231 million in cash, luxury vehicles, gold, and other assets.” “It does not matter if you are a trafficker in a drug cartel or a...

ALBANY— State Attorney General Letitia James stood at a podium late last June to announce her office had filed another civil case against allegedly nefarious nursing home operators, this one targeting four facilities and their Bronx-based parent company, Centers Health Care. Things to do this weekend in Upstate New York (June 7-9) James accused two Centers Health Care executives of orchestrating “multiple fraudulent schemes” that siphoned millions from the state’s Medicaid program to enrich themselves, their business associates and also to purchase a flailing Israeli airline. She pointed to disturbing, graphic examples of hundreds of elderly residents forced to endure...

Texas Children’s Hospital allegedly committed Medicaid fraud by billing for transgender procedures, according to a new whistleblower at the hospital.

Biden administration seeks 18-month stay before processing Just the News open records request, America First Legal calls delay request "shocking." The Biden administration is seeking to delay until at least 2026 the release of COVID-19 vaccine safety data that has been kept outside the government’s normal adverse events reporting system. The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services asked U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton this week to issue an 18-month stay that keeps them from having to release the Food and Drug Administration’s data to Just the News under the Freedom of Information Act. The federal agencies alleged that...

A cyberattack on a major American hospital system has caused dangerous medication mix ups including patients administered narcotics by mistake, leading to an admission to intensive care for life-threatening breathing difficulties. In another case, a female patient suffered a cardiac arrest and died after data mishaps delayed test results that would determine her life-saving treatment. Elsewhere, a nurse working for the Kansas branch of the major medical group recalled a 'near miss,' which involved him almost administering a potentially life-threatening dose of narcotic to a baby — because of false paperwork. Employees at Ascension, a Catholic healthcare system with more...

M.V. has refused food and fluid for 16 days. The father of the Calgary autistic woman, who was scheduled to die by euthanasia on February 1, withdrew his appeal of a court decision that prevented his daughter from dying by euthanasia, because the case is essentially moot. Meghan Grant reported for CBC news that: A Calgary father fighting through the courts to keep his 27-year-old daughter from accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) has abandoned his appeal, 14 days after she stopped eating and drinking. The woman, who can only be identified as M.V. because of a publication ban, was...

Can men give birth? Do cow farts cause tornadoes? Must “disinformation” tsars censor words to protect free speech? Should Democrats jail opponents in order to save “democracy”? If you listen to the propaganda press, these are some of the most important queries of our time. It feels as if we’ve fallen down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole or entered the absurdist plot of a Tom Robbins or Kurt Vonnegut novel. How can we make sense of our increasingly senseless world? America’s dean of word wizardry, Mark Twain, once quipped, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged...

Taxpayer funds are reportedly driving the recent job boom in New York City through a 2015 policy change that loosened eligibility Medicaid benefit rules. The revelation suggests that New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ acclaimed credit for creating 300,000 jobs since the pandemic actually results from taxpayers’ subsidy due to a policy change. Almost nearly all the job increases were created in publicly funded home health care, city documents show Manufacturing, construction, and retail sunk below levels in 2020 The rules permit people “eligible for home healthcare services to hire family members or close friends to care for them and...

Academic fraud is forcing Wiley, a major publisher of scientific journals, to close 19 journals after some were overwhelmed by industrial-scale research fraud. In the last two years, Wiley has retracted over 11,300 papers containing some fraudulent content.Academic publishing is a major industry for two reasons. The publishing industry generates about $30 billion in revenue, approximately 40% of which comes from within the United States. These publications don't make their money from advertisers. To have a research paper published in a top-tier journal will cost the research team several thousand dollars. That money typically is an authorized expense of the...