Bill...

It is a rare unifying moment. Hospitals, doctors, health insurers and some consumer groups, with few exceptions, are speaking with one voice and urging significant changes to the Republican health care legislation that passed the House.

The bill’s impact is wide-ranging, potentially affecting not only the millions who could lose coverage through deep cuts in Medicaid or no longer be able to afford to buy coverage in the state marketplaces.

With states allowed to seek waivers from providing certain benefits, employers big and small could scale back what they pay for each year or reimpose lifetime limits on coverage. In particular, small businesses could be free to drop coverage with no penalty.

Hospitals that serve low-income patients “will just be drowning completely when this happens.

I think the gov. should tell these entities to lower their charges 50%. We wouldn't have a problem then. Don't forget Big Pharma.

Mexican...

Cinco...

Dynamics...

Daniela Greene spent two years in the slammer for lying about a 2014 trip she took to Syria, where she hooked up with notorious German rapper-turned-ISIS recruiter Denis  Cuspert.

Greene had been assigned to investigate Cusbert while working for the FBI in Detroit and married him after sneaking into Syria from Turkey, according to court records.   Just a month after her departure, Greene realized her mistake and headed back into the US.

At the time, she was already married to an American she met while he served as a US Army solider in Germany, where she was raised after being born in the former Czechoslovakia, according to CNN, which broke the story. Very unique dynamics.

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The top U.S. doctors' organization and several hospital groups came out strongly against a Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul America's healthcare system.

Democrats mounted a fierce battle to thwart the bill.
"What they’re doing is very destructive. ... It represents the biggest shift of money to the wealthiest people in our country, the top 1 percent, at the cost of working families," House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi told reporters.

Doctors and other providers said the bill would probably cause many patients to lose insurance and raise healthcare costs. The American Medical Association urged senior lawmakers in a letter to reconsider drastic changes to Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor.

Can the Democrats reduce the cost of healthcare? They rejected Bernie Sanders Bill of importing medications which will reduce the cost of medications 70%?  Action, not talk, is needed.

Hack...

FBI director James Comey told senators that Russia remains involved in American politics, saying he thinks the country poses the "greatest threat" to the U.S. political process of any in the world.

Sen. Lindsey Graham  a foreign policy hawk  asked Comey "what kind of threat" Russia presents "to the democratic process."

"the greatest threat of any nation on Earth, given their intention and their capability," Comey said.  He didn't elaborate on what Moscow has done recently to try to influence American politics, but the bureau is actively investigating that question.

Wiki Leaks exposed the rotten core of the politics which was embarrassing to the Dems and to Hillary in particular.

It is not weapons any more, it is hacking...

Poo...ling...*

While a birthing pool during the early stages of labor may offer some advantages, women should not deliver their baby in the water. A woman in labor lies in a tub of warm water to help ease delivery.

"Immersion in water during the first stage of labor may offer some benefits: It may shorten labor and is associated with a decreased use of epidurals.

However, it is important to differentiate between laboring in water and delivering in water.

In fact delivering a baby in the water may lead to serious health problems. They include: increased risk of mother and infant infections; difficulty in the regulation of the baby's body temperature; increased chance of umbilical cord damage; respiratory distress resulting from the baby inhaling tub water; and potential for asphyxia (lack of oxygen) and seizures.

Hospitals and birthing centers that offer water immersion for women in the first stage of labor need to follow certain guidelines to protect the health and safety of the mother and baby, ACOG said.      [Journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.]

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Round-Up...

This is not an easy task...  All in all it may improve Obama care after all.

The Odds...