Sentences with phrase «health care legislation»

The new health care legislation has added an additional layer of complexity, so what will imposing pressure to raise the hourly minimum wage bring?

The first major federal health care legislation provided for universal access to hospital services and only a decade later to physicians.

The options provided here are by no means exhaustive and does not address the coming change from recent health care legislation.

That measure has been removed from health care legislation due to a parliamentary rule.

So I will not feel safe going back to school myself until reasonable mental health care legislation and gun control legislation is passed.

In addition, the event provides information on important topics in health care, such as drug pricing, new health care legislation, and the shortage of new drug approvals.

Because of Senator Kennedy's recent passing, Senator Kerry's August hip surgery, and the intensive work on health care legislation particularly on the Finance Committee where Sen. Kerry serves, Majority Leader Reid has agreed to provide some additional time to work on the final details of our bill, and to reach out to colleagues and important stakeholders.

Plus: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a 2,000 page bill combining three different versions of health care legislation passed by the House committees.

The next day, the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, vowed to challenge the Republican health care legislation in court.

Already, the double whammy of passing health care legislation that's about as popular as Ebola, while turning a blind eye to the President's near - daily impeachment - worthy offenses is setting the stage for significant Republican losses.

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the Republican - led Senate to seek out help from Democrats in moving ahead with health care legislation.

His entry comes as Faso has been criticized by liberals and Democratic figures like Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his support for the Republican - backed health care legislation.

Collins» plan, which would force New York to pick up the $ 2.3 billion tab that upstate and Long Island counties now contribute to the health care plan for lower - income state residents, was included late Monday in the last - minute package of amendments that House Speaker Paul Ryan put together to build support for the controversial Republican health care legislation.

Senate Republicans still don't know if they have the support to even take up a final vote on proposed health care legislation.

U.S. Senators and their top aides on Capitol Hill have made it clear to the White House as health care legislation makes its way through their chamber that the less involved Trump is, the better for the bill's prospects.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she would willing to lower the amount of a new surtax on wealthy Americans to pay for health care legislation if more savings from proposed reforms can cover the cost of the bill.

ALBANY, NY (03/22/2010)(readMedia)-- Denis Hughes, President of the 2 1/2 million member New York State AFL - CIO today hailed the «courageous» vote by Congressman Scott Murphy to pass landmark health care legislation this weekend.

Washington (CNN)- Five more House Democrats said Tuesday that they will vote against Senate health care legislation, which puts opponents of reform just 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent President Obama from scoring a major victory on his top domestic priority.

While the Obama administration finds its own signature health care legislation so complicated to administer that it is now putting off implementation of the large - employer insurance mandate until 2015 (i.e., after the congressional midterm elections), it is forging ahead with its oppressive HHS contraception - sterilization - abortifacient mandate, despite repeated condemnations of it from countless religious leaders for nearly two years now.

While the Obama administration finds its own signature health care legislation so complicated to administer that it is now putting off implementation of the large - employer insurance mandate until 2015 (i.e., after the congressional midterm elections), it is forging ahead with its oppressive HHS....

Obama had been pushing for both the House and Senate to pass health care legislation before going on their summer break - a goal that has appeared increasingly unlikely due to fierce Republican opposition and cost concerns cited by fiscally conservative Democrats.

Due to changes in health care legislation at the state and federal levels, many Idaho health care facilities have found themselves with severe shortages of medical professionals.

«The collapse of the Senate's healthcare strategy is a near - term negative for the GOP's broader legislative agenda, but we contend that failing to pass health care legislation dramatically increases the sense of urgency surrounding the tax reform conversation,» Boltansky wrote.

Former President Barack Obama on Sunday called for lawmakers to have «courage» when considering health care legislation that would significantly gut his signature domestic policy, the Affordable Care Act.

The announcements from Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican Party's long - promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama's health care legislation reeling.

Moyer commented «Tanya Miller and the GAC have done an excellent job of being on top of the latest health care legislation coming out of Harrisburg that requires support from PATS.

«Whether it has been shepherding through passage of historic health care legislation, authoring Empowerment Zone legislation, or leading the fight for affordable housing and 9/11 legislation, no one has worked harder than Charlie Rangel to improve the lives and well - being of working men and women.»

A once - quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington yesterday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all - out attack on the Senate's embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Democratic officials say Sen. Ben Nelson intends to support health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama, giving the measure a 60th and decisive vote.

Lieberman angered his colleagues in the Democratic caucus this week by threatening to torpedo health care legislation if it contains a government - run public health insurance or an expansion of Medicare.

Cuomo has been on the offensive of late, deriding the Graham - Cassidy health care legislation under discussion in the U.S. Senate; and on Monday he again expressed alarm over the «unconstitutional double taxation» that he said would result if the federal government nixes the state and local tax deduction.

The revised health care legislation is facing a battery of skeptical lawmakers as the GOP leadership in the Senate seek a vote on the measure in the coming weeks.

«Nationwide we've seen a troubling trend where politicians, believing they know better than women and their physicians, are hijacking health care legislation to impose their ultra-conservative views on women under the guise of protecting their health,» said PPANY President Tracey Brooks.

Trump rallied supporters last night in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after meetings and phone calls in Washington aimed at steadying the troubled health care legislation.

In 1999, Governor Pataki signed into law comprehensive health care legislation that provided health insurance coverage, under Family Health Plus, to lower income adults who do not have health insurance through their employers.

Repeal of President Obama's namesake health care legislation would lead to 83,000 people in the district losing coverage, said Cobb, and a reduction in Medicaid funding would ultimately shutter hospitals and medical centers.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Several influential organizations urged passage of health care legislation Wednesday in the face of growing liberal discontent with what many Democrats believe is now a watered down Senate bill.

«Opt out,» is the current favorite in the Senate Democratic leadership on the issue of whether health care legislation should include a government option to compete with private insurers.

Rep. Eric Massa says his opposition to health care legislation contributed to an ethics probe into his conduct.

July 31, 2017 • Northwell Health has a huge stake in what health care legislation Congress proposes.

Under the hallmark health care legislation passed in 2010, part of the student loan forgiveness program allows borrowers to combine all student loans into a new loan that offers five different income - driven repayment plan.

Spotify says the role involves identifying new playlist ideas («e.g. from a playlist for shooting hoops with your friends, to the perfect warm up playlist for addressing the nation about health care legislation that bears your name»), and they'll also «attend daily briefings.»

House Republicans just brought back their dangerous health care legislation.

But efforts at new health care legislation efforts, and then tax reform, have dominated the Senate for weeks, back - benching MIECHV and the much - larger Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

It also is influenced by jurisdictional health care legislation and therefore should be a tailored document for an individual or group in the workplace.

Members of the New Jersey Citizen Action group protest outside the Capitol on July 26, 2017, as the Senate held a second day of voting on health care legislation.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) declined to comment but tweeted a warning to Republicans wrestling with health care legislation: «Two words to @SenateGOP when @realDonaldTrump says «I'll have your back» when you vote to repeal health care: Jeff Sessions.»