Trump Donates Second Quarter Salary for 2019 to Surgeon General’s Office

President Trump donated his salary from the second quarter of 2019 to the Surgeon General's office, the White House announced Friday.

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California Sues Over Trump Move to Block Green Cards for Poor Immigrants

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday sued to block the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, which would deny immigrants green cards if they are likely to rely on public benefits.

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As Families Drop Health Benefits Over ‘Public Charge’ Rule, Clinics Scramble to Respond

Soon after news broke last week of the Trump administration’s finalized “public charge” rule, benefit enrollers at the Eisner Health community clinic in downtown Los Angeles started getting phone calls.

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Democrats Back Off Once-Fervent Embrace of Medicare-for-All

Leaning back on a black leather sofa as her campaign bus rumbled toward Fort Dodge, Kamala D. Harris tried to explain why she spent months defending a plan to replace private health insurance with Medicare-for-all, only to switch to a more modest proposal that would allow private insurance to continue after all.

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Prescribing Older Generics Could’ve Saved Medicare $17.7B, Study Finds

Between 2011 and 2017, Medicare could have saved $17.7 billion if generic versions of older medicines were prescribed instead of updated brand-name drugs launched by drugmakers to replace their older off-patent pills, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Canada Plots Response to U.S. Import Plan After Meeting with Stakeholders

Canadian health officials are expected to meet soon with their U.S. counterparts to detail major concerns over a proposal to set up drug importation.

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