Showing posts with label Oz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oz. Show all posts
Friday, August 14, 2026
Senators Sound Alarm on Voter Intimidation in Nursing Homes – Mother Jones
The new guidance removes suggestions of specific ways nursing home staff can help residents vote—providing transportation to polling places, for example—and instead threatens staff with fraud investigations if they “engage in inappropriate coercion or other violations of residents’ rights.”…
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
States Sue to Block Medicaid Work Requirements – Mother Jones
In a press release, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, who helped lead the suit, said that the “abrupt changes in [federal] implementation of the statute leave states insufficient time to adjust…or effectively communicate to members what is required.”
“This eleventh-hour attempt to further narrow protections for medically frail Medicaid recipients seeks to punish those who cannot fend for themselves,” said Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, who is also joining the suit, in a press release…
Friday, March 27, 2026
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Trump picks Dr. Oz to oversee Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act - The Washington Post
Oz gained national attention for his appearances as a health expert on Oprah Winfrey's television show before hosting his own Winfrey-backed TV show that debuted in 2009 and ran for more than a dozen years. His claims on that show, including his segments on possible weight-loss regimens and dietary supplements, were frequently panned by public health experts...
Friday, October 28, 2022
Mehmet Oz-John Fetterman debate's alarming abortion quote
As Dartmouth professor Randall Balmer, author of "Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right," outlined in Politico after Roe v. Wade was overturned, anti-abortion sentiment did not become a central issue for conservative evangelical leaders until after the 1978 midterms, five years after Roe and amidst efforts by the IRS to rescind the tax-exempt status of church-sponsored whites-only segregation academies. Before the late '70s, abortion had largely been considered a Catholic issue, and many evangelical leaders even actively supported the legalization of abortion. That changed when a group of men, considered the architects of the religious right, discovered how anti-abortion sentiment could be used to turn out white voters...
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