![VA pushes to hire 1,000 more mental health workers to reduce vets’ suicides]()
by Oyin Falana | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON– The Veterans Affairs Department plan to hire 1,000 additional mental health professionals to help reduce the number of veterans’ suicides has been stalled because it can’t get hiring authority from Congress, VA Secretary David Shulkin told a Senate...
by Casey Egan | Sep 26, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans announced Tuesday afternoon that the Graham-Cassidy health care proposal, their latest attempt to overturn Obamacare, will not be brought up for a vote this week, ending a series of failed efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act. “We...
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by Casey Egan & Ricky Zipp | Sep 25, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — The week of the Senate Republicans’ attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act began with U.S. Capitol police removing protesters from the Senate Finance Committee’s public hearing on the Graham-Cassidy health care proposal to replace Obamacare....
by Christine Huang | Aug 23, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON – Kayla D’Alonzo had been working as a production assistant at an event planning company in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost a year when she was diagnosed with anxiety and depression disorders. D’Alonzo, who was 25 at the time, said she had never faced...
![Republicans Can’t Blame Health Care Failure on Process]()
by Misha Euceph | Aug 2, 2017 | Health, Politics
By Misha Euceph WASHINGTON— Many on both sides of the aisle decried the Senate Republicans’ lack of transparency in drafting Obamacare replacement proposals — a move that could’ve passed without a single Democrat since it was included in the budget reconciliation...
by Eric Englert | Jul 21, 2017 | Featured, Health
WASHINGTON — Telehealth, the process of accessing medical appointments through the internet, offers preventative and specialized patient care to many of the nation’s 62 million rural residents where hospitals are often lacking. Such a system is especially important in...
