News 2017
Repeal, Replace ... Revise: Your Guide To How A Trump Proposal Might Change ACA Insurance
The healthcare.gov insurance marketplace
Repeal and replace is on-again, off-again, but that doesn't mean the rules affecting your insurance will remain unchanged.
Recently, the Trump administration issued a final rule aimed at stabilizing the health law's insurance marketplace that could have rapid, dramatic effects on people who do not get insurance through work and buy it on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges.
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To End AIDS in the United States, Stay True to the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Trump White House
Ten years ago, hundreds of organizations and individuals signed a petition calling on all presidential candidates to create a national AIDS strategy. We knew the approach to HIV in the U.S. had to change. If you read about AIDS in the paper, then it was likely about the horrifying scale of the global epidemic; the epidemic at home had largely become invisible. The national HIV response we saw was a patchwork: uncoordinated, without clear goals, underinvested where the challenge was most acute, with interventions delivered well below the scale necessary for impact. And the science of HIV prevention was changing dramatically without sufficient efforts to put it into practice.
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Trump's Budget Blueprint Cuts Close to Home
Charlene Crowell, Communications Deputy Director for the Center for Responsible Lending
From youth yearning for the time to have their own place, to older Americans hoping to age in place, the need to have a home is a shared concern of consumers of all ages and locales. It's where children are raised and memorable moments dwell. It's also where many people rest, reflect, and shut out the worries of the day.
CBC, Civil Rights Groups Fight Trump's Budget Blueprint
Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
In releasing his first-ever federal budget blueprint, President Donald J. Trump stated that his intent was to "make the government lean and accountable to the people." A review of its proposals, however, might be better characterized as mean.
Read more: CBC, Civil Rights Groups Fight Trump's Budget Blueprint
Trump's Leadership 'Pretty Scary' When It Comes to HIV/AIDS Funding
Black America stands to be negatively impacted by President Trump's budget
President Donald Trump's proposed budget, titled, "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again", doesn't say much about HIV/AIDS funding, but what it does say could have a disproportionate impact on Black people living with the disease. Advocates worry that the budget ignores the importance of "wraparound" care—nonmedical services that increase the availability or effectiveness of HIV treatment by linking people to care, retaining them in care or supporting people so that they can stay in care or on treatment—when addressing the needs of this population.
Read more: Trump's Leadership 'Pretty Scary' When It Comes to HIV/AIDS Funding