The Health 202: There are silent skeptics of Jayapal's Medicare-for-all measure
Key development in the fight for Medicare for All is that big labor is getting behind it in a real way for the first time ever. Jayapal bill has the backing mine workers, UAW, machinists, postal workers, AFT, NEA and othersThe Washington Democrat’s bill incorporates key policy demands of single-payer activists, aiming to overhaul the country’s health-care system even faster and more dramatically than the first Medicare-for-all bill proposed a year and a half ago by Sen.
It’s an argument Republicans, industry heads and other opponents of Medicare-for-all will keep hitting over and over again. AHH: House Democrats and gun-control advocates celebrated the passage of a bill expanding federal background checks for firearm purchases and transfers, even with a veto threat from President Trump and little likelihood it will be be considered in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Liveyon, a company in Yorba Linda, Calif., sells tiny vials of a solution it says is derived from umbilical cord blood, which it claims is an especially potent source of healing stem cells. The company, which sells vials of a solution it says is derived from umbilical cord blood, issued a recall after the Food and Drug Administration and other health officials inquired about infected patients last September. But internal company records show Liveyon received reports of ill patients, and some who tested positive for E. coli, as early as four months before the recall.
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