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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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… -
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‘We Are Being Lied To’: RFK Calls Out CDC Cover-Ups
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told members of Congress that there are “thousands” of examples of federal bureaucrats covering up scientific data that contradicted the government’s preferred narrative. Kennedy’s remarks came in a Senate Finance Committee hearing Thursday, where he was called on to explain his actions as HHS… -
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‘We Need New Blood at CDC’: RFK Defends Agency ‘Shakeup’
In a Senate hearing Thursday, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke out about the firings under his leadership, calling them “absolutely necessary adjustments.” The Senate Finance Committee called on Kennedy to testify on Trump’s health care agenda writ large. But early questions from senators focused largely on recent news… -
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Trump Open to Bringing Back Insane Asylums
President Donald Trump says he is open to the idea of bringing back insane asylums. During an interview in the Oval Office Friday with Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese, Trump was asked if he would consider reopening insane asylums for those suffering from severe mental illness. “Yeah, I would,” Trump responded, adding,… -
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‘Deserves To Be Turned Inside Out’: Scott Jennings Torches ‘Public Health Regime’ on CNN
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican strategist Scott Jennings blasted the nation’s public health establishment Sunday during a CNN panel, saying that the government’s COVID-era approach “deserves to be turned inside out.” Chaos ensued at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday after Director Susan Monarez rejected her ouster and four senior officials abruptly resigned. Jennings said… -
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Under Pressure From Trump DOJ, Michigan Hospital Ends Transgender Treatments for Minors
The University of Michigan’s hospital system announced Monday evening that it would no longer be providing transgender “therapies” or “medications” for minors, citing pressure from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Referencing a “federal subpoena as part of a criminal and civil investigation,” Michigan Medicine, the university’s health department, stated that it will “no longer… -
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Pensacola Theater Insists on Hosting Blasphemous Christmas Drag Show
Let the blame game begin. It’s clear that Jeffrey Sharp, the general manager of Pensacola’s Saenger Theatre, placed the city in a no-win situation. How? With his handling of the fiasco surrounding the city-owned and subsidized theater’s decision to host the blasphemous “A Drag Queen Christmas” show two days before Christmas—in the middle of the… -
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Beyond IVF: Finding the Root Causes of Infertility Can Lead to More Successful Outcomes
The best pro-family policies are those that champion the entire family—not just from the moment of conception, but the lifelong health and well-being of parents and children alike. That’s why the recent Washington Post report about the White House considering a broader approach to fertility care rather than an in vitro fertilization mandate shouldn’t be… -
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Ascending to New Heights: Trump and the Return of Winning
If they gave out patches for passing the Presidential Daydreaming Test at Rosecroft Elementary, I’d have gotten more patches than a quilt. But alas, it took passing the Presidential Fitness Test to be so honored. News that President Donald Trump was reinstituting that Presidential Fitness Test brought me right back to Rosecroft. Or more accurately,… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Policy Group Urges Trump to Get India to Respect Religious Liberty
Advancing American Freedom is urging the Trump administration to make trade negotiations with India dependent upon the country respecting religious liberty. The Trump team is in talks with the South Asian nation and has hit the country with tariffs over its decision to continue buying Russian oil. “The United States must condition any trade deal… -
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Bernie Sanders’ War on Free Speech Could Make Patients Sicker
Calling pharmaceutical ads an “embarrassment,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ and Maine Sen. Angus King’s self-righteousness is on full display. More importantly, the two demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of the benefits enabled by the drug advertisements we have all become accustomed to seeing. If implemented, their bill to ban such ads in print and on TV,… -
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Congress: Stop Medicare Advantage Overpayments, Improve the Program
Today, 54% of all Medicare patients get their coverage through Medicare Advantage, or MA. That’s Medicare’s popular system of private health plans—and currently, it’s the only viable alternative to enrollment in traditional (fee-for service) Medicare. But future payment for those plans rests on a knife-edge, and the stakes for millions of seniors couldn’t be higher…. -
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ICE Rescues 27, Including 10 Children, From Human-Trafficking Ring
Immigration enforcement authorities rescued 27 human-trafficking victims in Nebraska last week. Among the victims Immigration and Customs Enforcement rescued were 10 children under the age of 12, according to the Department of Homeland Security. “Our brave ICE law enforcement rescued these children and women, who were being sexually exploited and trafficked,” said Tricia McLaughlin, assistant… -
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It’s Not Just What We Eat, But How Much
“Make America Healthy Again” is a great slogan, and I am all for it. Like many Americans, I believe the food system is a mess. It does not take much time in a grocery store to realize that what we eat is chemically engineered garbage packaged in bright colors and sold as “snacks.” But as…