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Biden’s Criticism of Trump Team’s Vaccine Contracts Is a Stretch
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America. We rectified that.” — President Joe Biden, March 2 news conference During aMarch 2 news conference on the covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden claimed that former President Donald Trump’s administration did not ensure there would be enough vaccines for the American public. “When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America,” said Biden. “We rectified that.” This story was produced in partnership wit...
Kaiser Health News
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Biden’s Criticism of Trump Team’s Vaccine Contracts Is a Stretch
“When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America. We rectified that.” — President Joe Biden, March 2 news conference During aMarch 2 news conference on the covid-19 pandemic, President Joe Biden claimed that former President Donald Trump’s administration did not ensure there would be enough vaccines for the American public. “When I came into office, the prior administration had contracted for not nearly enough vaccine to cover adults in America,” said Biden. “We rectified that.” This story was produced in partnership wit...
California Healthline
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Police Reform Bill Named For George Floyd Approved By The House, 220-212
On Wednesday, the House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a reform bill that would ban chokehold and alter so-called qualified immunity for law enforcement. The vote was 220-212, mostly along party lines, and came nine months after Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officers last spring. The legislation would also ban no-knock warrants in certain cases, mandate data collection on police encounters, prohibit racial and religious profiling and redirect funding to community-based policing programs. In a debate on the House floor Wednesday night before ...
uPolitics.com
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Becerra Has Long Backed Single-Payer. That Doesn’t Mean It Will Happen if He’s HHS Secretary.
“Becerra supports Bernie’s government takeover of your health care, eliminating your employer-provided coverage.” — TV ad funded by Cotton for Senate, Feb. 22 This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. A digital ad running in Georgia and New Hampshire says Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, supports “Medicare for All.” “Becerra supports Bernie’s government takeover of your health care, eliminating your employer-provided coverage,” the narrator says. The ad, funded by the campaign PAC of Sen. Tom Co...
Kaiser Health News
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Becerra Has Long Backed Single-Payer. That Doesn’t Mean It Will Happen if He’s HHS Secretary.
“Becerra supports Bernie’s government takeover of your health care, eliminating your employer-provided coverage.” — TV ad funded by Cotton for Senate, Feb. 22 This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. A digital ad running in Georgia and New Hampshire says Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, supports “Medicare for All.” “Becerra supports Bernie’s government takeover of your health care, eliminating your employer-provided coverage,” the narrator says. The ad, funded by the campaign PAC of Sen. Tom Co...
California Healthline
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Biden Voids Trump’s Classical Architecture Order
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden reversed former President Donald Trump‘s executive order to favor classical architecture as a number of steps have been taken to eliminate policies created during the Trump administration. The executive order entitled, “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” labeled the modernist architectural styles of some federal buildings “ugly.” In it, the Trump administration demanded that federal planners should prioritize Roman-styles for future buildings. Trump’s order, signed in the final days of his presidency, placed a preference for classical styles in p...
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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Staffing Up at HHS
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. More than a month into President Joe Biden’s term, nominees to fill some of the top posts at the Department of Health and Human Services are finally getting confirmation hearings in the Senate, starting with the nominee for secretary, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Barring something unexpected, it appears that Becerra, along with the surgeon general nominee, Vivek Murthy, and the nominee for assistant secretary for health, Rachel Levine, will all be confirmed, despite criticisms raised by some Republicans. Meanwhile, ...
Kaiser Health News
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Biden’s Straight-Talking CDC Director Has Long Used Data to Save Lives
This story is part of a partnership that includes WBUR, NPR and KHN. It can be republished for free. In early December, Dr. Katy Stephenson was watching TV with her family and scrolling through Twitter when she saw a tweet that made her shout. “I said ‘Oh, my God!'” she recalled. “Super loud. My kids jumped up. My husband looked over. He said, ‘What’s wrong, what’s wrong, is everything OK?’ I was like, ‘No, no, it’s the opposite. It’s amazing. This is amazing!'” Dr. Rochelle Walensky had just been tapped to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephenson is an infectious diseas...
Kaiser Health News
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Biden’s Straight-Talking CDC Director Has Long Used Data to Save Lives
This story is part of a partnership that includes WBUR, NPR and KHN. It can be republished for free. In early December, Dr. Katy Stephenson was watching TV with her family and scrolling through Twitter when she saw a tweet that made her shout. “I said ‘Oh, my God!'” she recalled. “Super loud. My kids jumped up. My husband looked over. He said, ‘What’s wrong, what’s wrong, is everything OK?’ I was like, ‘No, no, it’s the opposite. It’s amazing. This is amazing!'” Dr. Rochelle Walensky had just been tapped to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Stephenson is an infectious diseas...
California Healthline
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‘It’s a Minefield’: Biden Health Pick Must Tread Carefully on Abortion and Family Planning
This story also ran on NPR. It can be republished for free. As President Joe Biden works to overhaul U.S. health care policy, few challenges loom larger for his health secretary than restoring access to family planning while parrying legal challenges to abortion proliferating across the country. Physicians, clinics and women’s health advocates are looking to Xavier Becerra, Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, to help swiftly unwind Trump-era funding cuts and rules that decimated the nation’s network of reproductive health providers over the past four years. But ...
Kaiser Health News
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