Healthcare & Policy News
Reporting on health care policy, insurance coverage, and federal health programs. Includes news updates and conservative commentary from The Daily Signal.
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Americans Want COVID-19-Era Policies to Sunset, Poll Finds
A week into the federal government shutdown, Senate Democrats are demanding the extension of expiring enhanced health care premium tax credits, claiming the credits, enhanced by Democrats during President Joe Biden’s administration, are resoundingly popular among the American people. “Even a majority of Trump supporters by nearly 60% support an extension,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck… -
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How ABC News Manufactures a Medicaid Cut Crisis
The federal government is shut down, at least in part, because Democrats are attempting to reverse Medicaid spending cuts that were enacted earlier this year as part of the “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Democrats are refusing to support a continuing resolution that would keep funding the government unless it restores those cuts. ABC News is determined to help the Democrats make their case for reversing Medicaid cuts, even at the… -
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Obamacare Is a Massive Failure. The GOP Shouldn’t Bail It Out.
Since Democrats have shut down the federal government because they want another $1.5 trillion bailout of Obamacare, it’s a good time to remind everyone that the law has been a wide-ranging and expensive fiasco. Virtually every promise made by Democrats regarding the Affordable Care Act has failed to come true. Sure, former President Barack Obama… -
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‘SHOCKING’: FDA Approves New Abortion Drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new abortion drug. The drug, which is a generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, was quietly rubber-stamped by the agency in a letter Tuesday, with reports only surfacing of its approval on Thursday. The drug’s approval took many by surprise, as it followed Health and… -
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Democrats Take Heat Over Health Care for Illegal Aliens
As the government appears to be barreling toward a shutdown, which will begin at midnight, Democrats are facing criticism over their alleged support for health care subsidies to noncitizens residing in the United States. The Democrat continuing resolution bill would revoke Subtitle B in Title VII of the One Big Beautiful Act, effectively restoring accessibility… -
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Trump Orders Administration to ‘Leverage AI’ to Cure Childhood Cancer
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing a $50 million investment in using artificial intelligence to cure childhood cancer. “President Trump’s foresight in his first term to establish the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative to gather, harness, and share data on childhood cancers has positioned us today to leverage AI to revolutionize pediatric cancer… -
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9 Violent Attacks on Churches in 2025
The horrific shooting and arson at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, on Sunday marks one in a horrifying list of attacks on churches in 2025. The violence, coming shortly after a church shooting in Minneapolis and the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, exposes a… -
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5 Things to Know About Expiring Health Care Subsidies
Congressional Democrats are holding the government hostage, refusing to keep it open unless Republicans extend expiring Biden-era health care subsidies. They’re painting those subsidies as essential to American health care—but their demands are unreasonable and out of step with reality. Here are five things you should know about the expiring subsidies. 1) The Subsidies Are… -
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EXCLUSIVE: HHS Official Responds to Women Popping Tylenol to Spite Trump
As videos circulate of pregnant women popping Tylenol tablets to spite Donald Trump, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health warned that every moment of pregnancy is critical for the baby’s development. Trump warned women Monday not to take Tylenol or its generic, acetaminophen, during pregnancy. He said… -
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A Call for Common Sense in Health Care
President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tylenol signals a return to restraint—something sorely missing in American health care. On Monday, President Donald Trump held a press conference to announce a link between women’s use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. Given strong recommendations against counterparts like Advil and aspirin, Tylenol has been the analgesic of choice… -
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Repeal, Don’t Extend Biden-Era Health Subsidies
With some Obamacare subsidies set to expire, Congress faces a choice: extend them—and continue masking the program’s underlying problems—or focus on actually fixing what’s wrong with the program. Obamacare started off by creating a new subsidy scheme for individuals who purchased health coverage through government-run exchanges. That scheme? A premium tax credit subsidy to… -
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Trump Wants Babies’ Vaccines ‘Given Separately,’ Rather Than Combined
President Donald Trump says he thinks separating the combination vaccines that babies receive would prevent autism, he said in response to a question from The Daily Signal. The Daily Signal asked Trump whether he supports spacing out all the combination vaccines babies receive to prevent autism. “I would say ‘yes,’” he said. “It’s a lot… -
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The Unhealthy Concentration of Federal Health Research Funding
The Trump administration has focused critical attention on the National Institutes of Health, and for good reason. Despite the importance of its mission, the NIH has been hijacked to advance political agendas. NIH research grants are heavily concentrated in a small number of congressional districts represented by progressives. In 2024, over half of NIH research… -
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Senator, Fired CDC Director Clash Over Vaccine Efficacy
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., criticized former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez on Wednesday, calling parts of her testimony on vaccines ridiculous. “Does the COVID vaccine reduce the rate of death for children under 18?” the Kentucky senator asked at a hearing Wednesday of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee…. -
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MAHA’s True Power Lies in Truth, Transparency, and Education, Not More Regulation
Some criticize the new MAHA report for going light on specific policy recommendations. That may be the point. Last week, among a frenzied news cycle, the Make America Healthy Again Commission dropped its much-anticipated health recommendations. Unsurprisingly, the mainstream media got busy criticizing the new MAHA report, saying that it “lacked teeth” and disappointed even… -
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Will Republicans Hand Dems a Major Health Care Concession?
Will Republicans in Congress hand Democrats a massive health care concession to avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month? That’s a question that has Capitol Hill abuzz. As Congress faces an end-of-September deadline to fund the government and avert a shutdown, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is demanding that Republicans make… -
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RFK Jr.’s Report Unveils Plan to Make America’s Children Healthy Again
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump’s top health officials unveiled a sweeping “Make America Healthy Again” agenda in a new 20-page report Tuesday. The report identifies about 130 separate policy priorities across 10 federal departments and agencies to address chronic disease in children. The MAHA Commission, an interagency task force, issued a report in May outlining four… -
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RFK Jr. Challenging the Medical Establishment Sends ‘This Week’ Panel Into a Tizzy
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Panelists on ABC’s “This Week” erupted Sunday after former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus defended Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to “balance the benefits” of COVID-19 vaccines against their “admitted risks.” Tensions flared Thursday during a Senate Finance Committee hearing as Democrats hammered Kennedy for criticizing agencies… -
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Biased Wikipedia Hurls Brickbats at Fox and Newsmax, Bouquets at CNN and MSNBC
While artificial intelligence might make the student research paper obsolete, if today a student does his or her own research and writing, it’s quite possible they will use Google to search their topic, and Google will invariably send the searcher to a Wikipedia article. If they were to write about cable news, the Wikipedia results… -
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Republicans Debate Extension of Biden’s Enhanced Obamacare Tax Credits
Nearly a decade after Donald Trump first became president vowing to repeal and replace it, Obamacare is once again becoming one of Congress’ most high-stakes debates. At the end of 2025, enhanced premium tax credits for former President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act are set to expire. Those enhanced credits were introduced during President…