"Affordable Care Act or Obamacare is a United States federal statute which authorizes coverage for pre-existing conditions at no extra premium. Trump administration has allowed Association Health Plans under which companies can impose higher premiums or deny coverage based on medical history and pre-existing conditions. Those...
"The United States leads the world in innovative drug development, benefiting patients and caregivers around the globe by securing access to new cures and medicines for a range of diseases. Proponents of drug price regulation argue that Pharma corporations increase prices to profit while contributing decidedly...
"Single-payer healthcare is a practice where every citizen funds the government to implement core healthcare services for all citizens. The government can choose to provide the care themselves or can appoint a private healthcare provider to do so. In a single-payer system, every resident gets...
President Trump is being urged to use his remaining time in office to grant preemptive pardons to people close to him, including family members and maybe even himself. After leaving office President Trump will no longer enjoy the privilege of not being indicted by federal...
The administration is trying to implement “extreme vetting” of immigrants and foreign travelers, asserting that widespread vetting failures had allowed many terrorists to enter the United States. While it is being implemented, measures have been suggested to ban Muslim immigrants from entering the country temporarily. Those...
Building a wall along the southern border has been presented as a plausible solution for the growing concerns over illegal immigration. Those in favor say it can reduce illegal immigrant sneaking, lower down terrorism, drug trafficking, and related violent activities The proposal has been criticized for being...
Currently, adoption by same-sex couples is legal in all 50 states. Opponents often debate that children raised by same-sex parents perform worse in life when compared to those raised in a heterosexual family. American Civil Liberties Union in their overview of Lesbian and Gay Parenting, Adoption and...
Currently, same-sex marriage is legal in all fifty states. Although most world religions oppose same-sex marriage, the number of religious denominations that are conducting same-sex marriages have been increasing in recent times. Opponents of same-sex marriage consider it a threat to the sacred institution of marriage and...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act and a bill to block sales of tear gas & other crowd control items to the Hong Kong Police. Proponents say this is a good idea because it's a PRO...
President Donald Trump has announced plans to designate Mexican cartels as Federal Terrorist Organizations, which would enable a wider scope of U.S. action. Analysts who study Mexican security express skepticism that the terrorism designation would do much good. Would you support waging war on cartels?...
Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization that provides reproductive health care. In their 2014 Annual Report, PPFA reported seeing over 2.5 million patients in over 4 million clinical visits and performing a total of nearly 9.5 million discrete services including 324,000 abortions. Its combined annual revenue...
Presently the administration is pursuing criminal charges against all individuals who attempt to cross the U.S. border illegally. Adults caught at the border are designated to the Department of Justice. Any children accompanying those adults are treated as unaccompanied minors and temporarily placed in detention...
In 2015, 638,169 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. The abortion rate for 2015 was 11.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years, and the abortion ratio was 188 abortions per 1,000 live births. Abortion is legal in all U.S. states,...
President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to his former national security adviser Michael Flynn who had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election....
Cancer Drug Parity Act 2019: This bill requires health plans that cover anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable cost-sharing for patient-administered anticancer medications. Proponents say treatment efficacy, not price, should be the deciding factor when patients are choosing between...
Lynching- as horrific as it sounds recollects its own consequences in a manner that ends up costing the lives of several people. Making it illegal at the federal level, and adding a hate crime enhancement, rights the historic wrong of the crime itself being allowed to...
Freedom of conscience — which in the context of this bill can be understood to be interchangeable with freedom of religion — is enshrined in the First Amendment. Those who are in favor say that the government should neither try to decide what religious beliefs are...
The frontrunners to be the next VA secretary under President-elect Joe Biden include several veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars like former Rep. Patrick Murphy and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Who do you think will be a better choice?...
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