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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Texas Republicans Weigh Ramping Up Consequences for Runaway Dems
Texas state House Democrats again failed to show up to vote on Friday, putting on hold the special session to redistrict the Lone Star State and add potentially five more Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats fled the state on Aug. 3 in order to deny a quorum—the number of representatives required… -
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Illegal Chinese Vapes Are a National Emergency
Tensions with China have never been more … well, tense. While President Donald Trump has led tough tariff negotiations with the Chinese government, recent signs suggest China is coming to the table and a deal may be imminent. So, wouldn’t Chinese manufacturers—with ties to the Chinese Communist Party—sidestepping tariffs to flood our markets with poisonous… -
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HHS Secretary Reveals Shocking Organ Transplant Practices
“This seems to be a story more fitting for a horror movie than a congressional hearing, frankly,” said Florida Rep. Neal Dunn at a congressional hearing last month, The Washington Post reported. In late July, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed an investigation had discovered “that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process… -
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President Trump Reinstates Fitness Test for Kids
President Donald Trump has reinstated the Presidential Fitness Test in U.S. schools. The move is part of the president’s effort to “restore health and fitness to America’s youth,” according to a statement released by the White House. The Presidential Fitness Test, launched by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966, was canceled by the Obama administration… -
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Trump to Announce Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals
President Donald Trump will soon announce tariffs on pharmaceuticals, he told CNBC in a Tuesday morning interview. “Within the next week or so, we’re going to be announcing tariffs on pharmaceuticals,” he said. “We want pharmaceuticals made in our country,” the president said. Trump said he will also announce tariffs on semi-conductors and chips because… -
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Red States Now Lead the Charge Toward Healthier Living
Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered the domain of the Left seem to have been adopted by the new, right-leaning populist movement. Nowhere is this more apparent… -
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Trump’s Mission to Make America’s Kids Fit Again Is Way Overdue
Poor health and obesity, and the chronic diseases that accompany them, cost this country billions of dollars. President Donald Trump, alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is on a mission to end that, and he’s starting with our children. It’s often said that you can’t outrun a bad diet. The implication… -
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A Free Market Fix for Health Care: Pass the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act
For decades, the political and media class has told Americans that the only way to fix health care is with more government—more mandates, more regulations, and more spending. What has that approach delivered? Skyrocketing costs and unaccountable bureaucracy. Inflation-adjusted national health care spending has more than doubled since 2000. As a result, over 100 million Americans… -
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Grading the Second Trump Presidency, 6 Months In
Over the course of four years’ banishment to America’s political wilderness while subjected to both a would-be assassin’s bullets and the humiliating and unprecedented spectacle of criminal prosecution by his political opponents, Donald Trump seems to have intuited a key life lesson: Time is of the essence. Carpe diem, seize the day. And so it… -
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Bipartisan Bill Aims to Codify Trump’s Health Care Pricing Transparency Directive
With the new Patients Deserve Price Tags Act, a bipartisan group of senators is pushing to effectively codify President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring price transparency from health care providers. The bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo. Republicans Sens. Tim Sheehy of Montana, Chuck Grassley, and Joni Ernst of… -
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‘RETALIATION’: Whistleblower Who Exposed Transgender ‘Medicine’ Targeted by FBI, Lost Her Job
Vanessa Sivadge lost her job at a Texas hospital and faced questioning from the FBI after speaking out about experimental transgender “treatments” on children. She told “The Daily Signal Podcast” how her faith motivated her to speak out and why she feared no one else shared her concerns, despite the fact that so-called “gender-affirming care”… -
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RFK’s New Vaccine Team: A Non-Hysterical Assessment
James Carville, the Democrats’ colorful campaigner and newly minted immunologist, recently declared: “Bobby Kennedy is going to kill more people than any Cabinet secretary, maybe in history, with his idiotic vaccine policy.” His damning evidence? Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy’s firing of all 17 Biden administration appointees to the Advisory Committee on Immunization… -
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FTC to Investigate Trans Industry’s Threats of Child Suicide
The federal government’s foremost consumer protection agency has an “unequivocal basis” to start investigating the transgender medicine industry after a workshop highlighting stakeholders’ horror stories, Mark Meador of the Federal Trade Commission told The Daily Signal. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop on Wednesday called “The Dangers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors” to hear from parents and… -
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Federal Trade Commission to Investigate Deception, Fraud in Transgender Industry
Doctors who pitched irreversible surgeries and sterilizing hormone regimens to minors struggling with gender dysphoria may have illegally deceived patients and their parents, according to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson. The statute that created the Federal Trade Commission authorizes it to prevent “unfair or deceptive” practices affecting consumers. The FTC hosted a daylong workshop… -
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Vance: Here’s How Mamdani Won the New York Mayoral Primary
Vice President JD Vance is criticizing New York City Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, accusing him of building a coalition of what Vance called “downwardly mobile, college-educated people,” and carved-out ethnic blocs by pandering to shared hatreds. “This is a guy who won high-income and college-educated New Yorkers, and especially both young [and] highly educated… -
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Republicans Lose Another Strong Contender to Help Keep House Majority
Congressional Republicans have lost a strong contender to help them retain their majority in the House of Representatives with the announcement of the retirement of Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. According to the House Press Gallery, Republicans currently hold a 220-to-212 majority in the House. There are currently three vacancies in the chamber due to three… -
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Big Pharma Lobbying Group Takes Surprising Stand on MAHA Agenda After Memo Leak
A Big Pharma lobbying group has stated that it is “aligned” with President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mission to “Make America Healthy Again” after a leaked document suggested the group schemed to oust Kennedy and separate him from Trump’s Make America Great Again movement. “It’s time to go to the Hill and… -
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The Keys to Trump’s Middle East Triumph
If you blinked, you just missed World War III. President Donald Trump on June 23 announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. That came two days after Trump sent B-2 stealth bombers to drop bunker-buster bombs on the Fordow nuclear enrichment plant. Only the United States had the capability to obliterate the deeply buried site…. -
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Senate Fiscal Hawks Seek Partial Obamacare Repeal in One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Senate fiscal hawks are seeking a major concession in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act—a partial repeal of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. The fiscal conservatives managed to introduce the amendment after withholding their vote on a motion to proceed with the massive 10-year budget framework. Now, almost a decade removed from the day… -
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Achieving Sea Superiority Through AUKUS
Whoever rules the waves rules the world. This argument, made famous by American naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, rings just as true today as it did over a century ago. But today, the contest for maritime dominance is no longer just about destroyers and battleships—it’s about data, autonomy, and dominance beneath the surface. In the…