The Forces Fighting Congress’s Bill To End Surprise Billing Are Acting Like They’ve Already Won. They Likely Have.
WASHINGTON — One year ago members of Congress declared surprise medical billing an unjust market failure and vowed quick action to fix it. Both political parties agreed. Who could defend the growing cases of massive bills for people who go to the emergency room and are unknowingly treated by out-of-network doctors? One 2019 study found
Trump’s Reckless Push To Reopen Schools Is An Admission Of Failure
By pushing to reopen schools this fall regardless of whether the coronavirus is still spreading wildly, President Donald Trump is giving up on his own plan to contain the virus. In April, the White House unveiled ”Guidelines for Opening Up America Again,” which call for business and other activities to resume in staggered phases, depending
GOP State Lawmaker: ‘I Want To See More People’ Get Coronavirus
A GOP lawmaker in Alabama said he’s “not concerned” about the current spike in cases of the coronavirus in the state. “In fact, quite honestly, I want to see more people, because we start reaching an immunity as more people have it and get through it,” Alabama state Sen. Del Marsh told reporters Thursday. “I
Donald Trump Gets ‘An F’ For Fractions In Coronavirus Testing Tweet
President Donald Trump was ridiculed and scorned in equal measures on Thursday over this tweet about testing for the coronavirus: For the 1/100th time, the reason we show so many Cases, compared to other countries that haven’t done nearly as well as we have, is that our TESTING is much bigger and better. We have tested
Biden’s Polling Lead Is Big — And Steady
The race between President Trump and Joe Biden is verging on a landslide. That’s not a word we use lightly. Over the past month, Biden’s lead over Trump has been both incredibly stable and unusually large. Amidst Trump’s unpopular handling of the protests that followed the police killing of George Floyd, Biden’s lead has hovered
The Trump Administration Is Set To Resume Executions In Two Weeks. There’s A Last-Ditch Effort To Stop It.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to execute Daniel Lewis Lee on July 13 by lethal injection. If it happens, it’ll be the first time in nearly two decades that the federal government has carried out an execution. Death row inmates and death penalty opponents have less than two weeks to convince a judge
Washington Post Editorial Board Spells Out A Stark Truth About The Coronavirus To Trump
“The reality is that the virus is not under control; it is in control,” the newspaper’s board wrote in its editorial Thursday that denounced Trump’s ongoing attempts to downplay the rapid resurgence of COVID-19 in states nationwide. The board called out Trump’s “magical thinking” on the pandemic. Trump bore responsibility “for encouraging governors to loosen the restrictions
Chris Hayes Explains Why Donald Trump’s America Is ‘Laughingstock’ Around The World
“Our cases are skyrocketing. Our government’s response is a failure. We are living in this tragedy, this national humiliation for all to see,” Hayes continued, noting how COVID-19 is again spiking at record levels across the country. Hayes explained how some of the nations that had been hardest hit by the global health crisis in
Ticked-Off Florida Seniors Turn On Trump In Scathing CNN Segment: ‘He Blew It’
While Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton there in 2016, polls show him trailing the former vice president by an average of 7.1%, according to FiveThirtyEight (though it’s worth noting that Trump trailed Clinton by a similar margin in Florida in July 2016). Now, a new video from CNN shows why Trump might be
The Unemployment Rate Is Falling, But More People Are Losing Their Jobs Permanently
These days, reading the monthly jobs report can feel like opening a time capsule. According to the data for June, which was released today, the recovery from the COVID-19 recession was still chugging along as of the middle of last month, when the two surveys that form the backbone of the report were conducted. The