Mitt Romney Says White House Misled Congress On Covid-19 Funds He cited a newly announced White House plan to repurpose some existing funds to cover the country’s most pressing vaccine and treatment needs. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who brought the Senate close to a bipartisan $10 billion covid funding deal in March, said the Biden administration had provided “patently false” information about its inability to buy additional vaccines, treatments and supplies. (6/16)Ĭongressional Covid Funding Deal Appears ‘Dead’ After GOP CriticismĪ congressional deal for billions of dollars in additional coronavirus funding appeared all but dead Thursday after Senate Republicans accused the White House of being dishonest about the nation’s pandemic funding needs. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, senators are struggling to write into legislative language a tentative deal reached over the weekend on gun control and mental health, and the Supreme Court says no to certain administration cuts to hospitals under the Medicare program. But that may be about to change as an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommends authorization for that group. KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Closing In On Covid Vaccines For ‘The Littles’Ĭhildren younger than 5 are the only population not eligible for a covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. It examined the link between fossil fuel emissions and a variety of consequences of climate change - including extreme weather events wildfires vector-borne illnesses such as malaria, Zika, and Lyme disease and heat waves, a topic at the forefront of many people’s minds. A June 15 article in the New England Journal of Medicine reviews current research to take a sweeping inventory of how air pollution and climate change interact to adversely affect people’s health, especially that of kids. Heat waves are getting hotter and becoming more frequent because of rising rates of air pollution, putting children’s health at risk, a wide-ranging new report finds. It’s Hot Outside - And That’s Bad News For Children’s Health “If they needed other postpartum issues followed up, it was rather difficult to get them in within that finite period of time,” said Brown, who works at the Family Health Centers of Georgia, a group of community health centers. That meant the Medicaid benefits of many women expired before they could be referred to other medical providers for help with serious health problems, said Dr. Until last year, Georgia’s Medicaid coverage for new moms with low incomes lasted 60 days. States Extend Medicaid For New Mothers - Even As They Reject Broader Expansion Each year, the center provides abortion services to 1,300 to 1,400 patients, including people from Kentucky, Georgia, and Virginia. “We’re unsure if we’ll be able to maintain services at all,” said Rovetti, who is the co-director and a nurse practitioner at KCRH, which provides medication abortions and abortion procedures, as well as gynecological and family planning services. The clinic, where she has worked for 33 years helping people across a four-state region, could close. Two Tennessee Abortion Clinics, Awaiting High-Court Ruling, Grapple With UncertaintyĬorinne Rovetti is worried about what will happen to the Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health if the Supreme Court overturns the constitutional right to abortion. But it was there at Tuesday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee markup of legislation to reauthorize the Food and Drug Administration’s user fee program, which is set to expire Sept.

Harmony is not often found between two of the most boisterous senators on Capitol Hill, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Look for it again in your inbox Tuesday.Ī Proposal To Import Drugs From Other Countries Creates An Unusual Alliance In The Senate

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