Tag: Representative Michael Burgess

Why aren’t the Republicans talking about health?

Volume 403, Issue 10450
27 July 2024 

WORLD REPORT  Health-care issues were conspicuously absent from the 4-day party convention culminating in Donald Trump’s nomination as the Republican 2024 presidential candidate. Susan Jaffe reports.

Former US President Donald Trump spent 93 minutes accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president last week, exceeding his own 2016 record for the longest acceptance speech at a political convention. But there was no time to mention major health-care issues such as abortion, the COVID-19 pandemic, medical research funding, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or the opioid epidemic, to name a few. Yet domestic and global healthcare spending consume the largest part of the US budget. [Continued here.]…

US Congress wants to take the surprise out of medical bills

Volume 393       Number 10191       29 June 2019   
WORLD REPORT A Texas high school teacher gets an unexpected hospital bill for $110,000 that his health insurance policy doesn’t cover. What can Congress do about it?   [Continued here]