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Trump expects voters to fall for the same health care trick twice

October 13, 2020
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As a presidential candidate four years ago, Donald Trump not only railed against the Affordable Care Act; he also made bold promises about the magnificence of his alternative plan. The Republican’s alternative to “Obamacare” would offer everything Americans they could dream of, including better coverage at a lower price. All voters had to do was elect him.

In reality, of course, Trump didn’t know and didn’t care about how to deliver on these promises. He was peddling post-policy nonsense, counting on the electorate to not know the difference.

As a president, when it came time to follow through, Trump was lost without a map, amazed to discover the complexities of an issue he never he even tried to understand. The Republican endorsed plans that did the opposite of what he told voters he’d do, and when it came time to engage in actual negotiations, Trump struggled to keep up —

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How Money Fuels Racism In Health Care

October 13, 2020
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As part of the 2020 Citizens’ Agenda project, WBEZ is reporting on the issues you told us you care about most ahead of November’s elections. Many of you want elected officials to address the racial inequities in health care underscored by the COVID-19 pandemic. This reporting was driven by audience responses to our Citizens’ Agenda Survey.

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare racial disparities in health care that were generations in the making.

There’s a host of factors fueling inequities, but a key one is a lack of money for hospitals that mainly treat low-income people of color.

WBEZ talked to leaders at these so-called safety net hospitals, to state officials, and to health policy experts and lawmakers to explain how funding contributes to racial disparities – and what they can do to address it.

A critical mission – with big challenges

Safety net hospitals live by this mission: Treat

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Better Health Care For West Coasters As Te Nikau Hospital Officially Opened

October 13, 2020
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Friday, 25 September 2020, 9:14 am
Press Release: New Zealand Government

Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern 

Prime
Minister

Hon Peeni Henare

Associate Minister
of Health

The Government has delivered a new hospital
for Greymouth and is starting work on a much needed new
health centre in Westport, ensuring local communities will
benefit from better access to high quality integrated health
services.

Today, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and
Associate Health Minister Peeni Henare officially open Te
Nikau Hospital and Health Centre in Greymouth and turn the
first sod at the Buller Health Centre site in
Westport.

“We want all New Zealanders to enjoy
better health and wellbeing. Improving our hospitals and
other health infrastructure is an important part of this,”
says Jacinda Ardern.

“We’re committed to tackling
this long term challenge – the Government has invested a
record $3.5 billion to improve our health facilities. The
Coast has benefited from some of

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How Elisabete Miranda’s CQ Fluency Transformed Translation in U.S. Health Care

October 13, 2020
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When Elisabete Miranda immigrated to the United States from Brazil in 1994, she learned how a life’s experience can get lost in translation. In Brazil, she’d been a respected serial entrepreneur and vice president of her local chamber of commerce. In the U.S., she felt like one more Latin American woman who didn’t speak the language. “When you move to another country, it’s like you become a stupid person,” she says with a laugh, recalling her first days in the States. “You have to suck it up and do what you need to do.”

What Miranda needed to do, she believed, wasn’t just to learn English, but also to turn translation into a business. She teamed up with her sister-in-law, Edna Ditaranto, a professional translator, who at the time was doing freelance work translating Portuguese for American companies. Miranda started out at the company first serving as a proofreader for

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The Note: Republicans stuck on uneasy defense on health care

October 13, 2020
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The TAKE with Rick Klein

Elections, of course, have consequences. What happens right before elections also has consequences – or so candidates hope.

With three weeks of voting left, President Donald Trump and his Republican Party find themselves in an uneasy state of defense when it comes to issues that have alternately energized and frustrated the GOP going back at least a decade.

In Washington, Democrats are less focused on blocking Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination than they are making the case about what that could mean almost immediately after the election. They are arguing that she would likely find Obamacare unconstitutional when the Trump administration’s arguments are heard shortly after the election.

Said Sen. Kamala Harris, doing double duty as vice-presidential candidate and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee: “Republicans finally realized that the Affordable Care Act is too popular to repeal in Congress, so now

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How software infuses racism into U.S. health care

October 13, 2020
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AHOSKIE, N.C. — The railroad tracks cut through Weyling White’s boyhood backyard like an invisible fence. He would play there on sweltering afternoons, stacking rocks along the rails under the watch of his grandfather, who established a firm rule: Weyling wasn’t to cross the right of way into the white part of town.

The other side had nicer homes and parks, all the medical offices, and the town’s only hospital. As a consequence, White said, his family mostly got by without regular care, relying on home remedies and the healing hands of the Baptist church. “There were no health care resources whatsoever,” said White, 34. “You would see tons of worse health outcomes for people on those streets.”

The hard lines of segregation have faded in Ahoskie, a town of 5,000 people in the northeastern corner of the state. But in health care, a new force is redrawing those

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IQVIA Joins FDA to Advance COVID-19 Understanding at Community Level through COVID Active Research Experience (CARE) Project

October 13, 2020
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IQVIA™ (NYSE: IQV), in scientific partnership with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will provide agile analytics from IQVIA’s CARE Project COVID-19 registry to support better understanding of how people in the community are affected by exposure to the coronavirus. IQVIA’s research will show what symptoms individuals experience, the length and severity and whether any medications or vitamin supplements they are taking affect the severity of their coronavirus symptoms.


The CARE Project is open to U.S. based residents who think they may have been exposed to the coronavirus, regardless of whether they have been diagnosed with COVID-19, including people who have continued with everyday life and may have been exposed. The project was established to advance understanding of COVID-19 as experienced in community settings.


The registry was launched in April 2020 and can be accessed at www.helpstopcovid19.com. Over three months, registrants are periodically asked to provide information

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Barrett to Face Senators on Health Care, Legal Precedent | Washington, D.C. News

October 13, 2020
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By MARK SHERMAN, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will face senators’ questions over her approach to health care, legal precedent and even the presidential election during a second day of confirmation hearings on track to lock in a conservative court majority for years to come.

The mood is likely to shift to a more confrontational tone as Barrett, an appellate court judge with very little trial court experience, is grilled in 30-minute segments Tuesday by Democrats gravely opposed to President Donald Trump’s nominee, yet virtually powerless to stop her rise. Republicans are rushing her to confirmation before Election Day.

“This should not be President Trump’s judge,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats say the winner of the presidential election should choose the nominee.

“This should be your judge,” she said.

Barrett

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Dr. William B. Applegate and Dr. Christopher C. Colenda: A broken system and broken promises on health care | Columnists

October 13, 2020
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Many of Trump’s allies and supporters have disingenuously tried to praise the job our current president has done. It is hard for us to fathom that our older patients can accept these assertions given the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Others will attribute these sad events to “misfortune” or “bad luck.” Our interpretation is that these events, particularly for older voters who supported the current leadership, are an unprecedented betrayal.

Dr. William B. Applegate is president and Dean Emeritus of Wake Forest University Health Sciences and professor of medicine, geriatrics and gerontology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Christopher C. Colenda is president emeritus of West Virginia University Health System in Morgantown, W.Va., and dean emeritus of the College of Medicine, Texas A&M University Health Sciences in Bryan, Texas.

Also contributing to this column were Dr. Dan G. Blazer, a professor emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and

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Health care, racism divide Rep. Ben McAdams, Burgess Owens in only debate

October 13, 2020
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SALT LAKE CITY — In their only debate before the November election, Democratic Rep. Ben McAdams and Republican Burgess Owens sparred over some of Owens’ more controversial statements during the campaign, as well as issues including health care and whether there is systemic racism in the United States.



a man wearing a suit and tie: Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, and Burgess Owens bump elbows after participating in the 4th Congressional District debate at the Triad Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.

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Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah, and Burgess Owens bump elbows after participating in the 4th Congressional District debate at the Triad Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.

Owens, a former NFL player, author and frequent Fox News guest, said McAdams was using “D.C. tactics” and “fear” when the freshman congressman said that until recently, Owens‘ website called for a repeal of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare that includes protections for pre-existing conditions.

“Pre-existing conditions are off the table,” Owens said, an apparent reference to promises made by President Donald Trump and

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