Health
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Biden Proposes Taxes on the Rich to Strengthen Medicare Funding
Biden’s plan would increase the Medicare tax rate on Americans earning above $400,000 from 3.8% to 5% to help keep Medicare solvent into the 2050s. No one earning under $400,000 a year would pay a dime more in taxes, under Biden’s plan.
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GOP Plans Could Include Deep Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
House Republicans want to apply deep cuts to everything from health insurance to food assistance benefits, an effort that would plunge millions more Americans into extreme poverty.
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Millions of Americans Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Later This Year When the COVID-19 Emergency Ends. Here’s What You Need to Know.
The Biden administration announced recently that the U.S. will no longer be in a COVID-19 emergency as of May 11, which means that an estimated five to 14 million Americans could lose access to health insurance via Medicaid.
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Opinion: Healthcare Workers Are Dealing With Burnout and Trauma, We Need To Do More to Help Them
It is essential that patients, communities, and health systems advocate for policy solutions that will grow the health care workforce and expand innovative telehealth and home-based care programs, says medical director of public health for the UW Health Board of Directors.
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David Crowley: Communities Need Help to Achieve Healthcare Goals
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley writes that President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is critical to helping communities like Milwaukee expand health care to the most needy.
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Pediatric Experts Answer Reader Questions About COVID-19
You asked us, so we asked the experts.
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Grandma Is Coughing a Lot on the Phone. What Should We Do?
The CDC has an interactive symptom checker.
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In Pictures: Fighting Coronavirus Around the World
Politicians wear protective gear in Belgium. Canadians leave notes at their windows. Volunteers in Spain sew masks for nurses and doctors. Citizens disinfect streets and cars in India and Afghanistan. Pope Francis prays solo to an empty Piazza San Pietro.
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10 Ways to Lower Your “Coronavirus Stress” Now
Alarming headlines about COVID-19 have many feeling anxious. We promise this is not one of them.
