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The Bounded Triumph of Health Care Ballot Initiatives Original
Medicaid expansion ballot initiatives show state referenda can expand health care access—but they have their limits. State ballot initiatives protecting reproductive rights across the country signal the public’s rejection of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning constitutional protection for abortions in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Prince Harry tells Anderson Cooper why he's not stepping out of the limelight Prince Harry is continuing to speak out regarding the rift in the British royal family. White House officials are weighing the addition of a visit to the US-Mexico border when President Joe Biden travels next week to the North Ame… She went hiking in the woods and met the love of her life Sarah was resting in her hammock, flask of whiskey in hand, surveying the canopy of trees ahead and enjoying the peace and quiet.
January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Prince Harry tells Anderson Cooper why he's not stepping out of the limelight Prince Harry is continuing to speak out regarding the rift in the British royal family.
Kevin McCarthy elected House speaker
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Kevin McCarthy elected House speaker
News Kevin McCarthy elected House speaker By Allison Hoffman, Andrew Menezes and Chandelis Duster, CNN Sunday, January 8th 2023, 8:04 AM CST
January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy
With Vermont Rep. Becca Balint being sworn into the House early Saturday, all 50 US states have now sent women to Congress. “I want all people to feel like they can have a place in government,” the Democrat told CNN in November, prior to winning an open-seat race for Vermont’s at-large district.
January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy
By Allison Hoffman, Andrew Menezes and Chandelis Duster, CNN
January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy
News January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy By Allison Hoffman, Andrew Menezes, Chandelis Duster and Matthew Reed, CNN Sunday, January 8th 2023, 8:04 AM CST Updated: Sunday, January 8th 2023, 4:05 PM CST
January 8, 2023, updates on Speaker Kevin McCarthy
By Allison Hoffman, Andrew Menezes, Chandelis Duster and Matthew Reed, CNN
Keto Blueberry Pie Bars - Low Carb, Sugar-Free, Gluten-Free, THM S
Keto Blueberry Pie Bars will be your new favorite low carb dessert. The sweet natural blueberry flavor paired with the homemade crumble on top is what dessert dreams are made of. One serving has less than 6 grams of net carbs! In addition to being keto-friendly, this simple blueberry bar recipe is grain free, gluten-free, and sugar free as well. If you’re looking for a low carb dessert option to feed a crowd, this is one of my go-to recipes.
Bans on nursing home visitors are unhealthy, unethical
OPINION Bans on nursing home visitors are unhealthy, unethical By JASON KARLAWISH, DAVID C. GRABOWSKI AND ALLISON K. HOFFMAN | Special to The Washington Post | Published: July 14, 2020 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription.
Opinion | Continued bans on nursing home visitors are unhealthy and unethical
Jason Karlawish is a professor of medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and co-director of the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania. David C. Grabowski is a professor of health-care policy at Harvard Medical School. Allison K. Hoffman is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Expanding Medicaid in Florida will save money and lives | Opinion
By Gabe Scheffler and Allison Hoffman Special to the Sun Sentinel | May 04, 2020 | 6:00 AM States should embrace Medicaid expansion under any conditions.
As coronavirus shut down support systems, the struggles of dementia patients and caregivers only get worse | Opinion
After a few days of social distancing, staff at the Penn Memory Center began receiving distress calls. My husband refused to come in from the garage. My mother pushed me. A man told us he feels like he’s in jail - his wife can’t be left alone, and he can’t leave the house with her because she walks up to strangers. Now more than ever, caregivers and persons living with dementia are struggling.
The threat of coronavirus medical bankruptcy
With three relief bills passed, Congress addressed the most immediate health and economic threats from COVID-19. Yet, it has neglected a secondary threat that follows just behind. Many Americans will face unmanageable medical bills for coronavirus care. The relief legislation that Congress passed over the past two weeks addressed only a small sliver of the costs of COVID-19 medical care, primarily to remove financial barriers to testing.
King Without a Crown
Malcolm Hoenlein speaking at a New York press conference demanding international action in Darfur, April 2006.(Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images) This is the kind of story people tell about Malcolm Hoenlein, a man described to me as “one of the most powerful people, politically, in the United States” and “the most powerful Jew in the Western world.” One day in the early 1990s, as the United States and Israel were embarking on a campaign to repeal the Soviet-backed U.N. resolution equating Zionism...
The myth of health insurance choice
“Choice” has taken center stage as Democratic candidates spar over “Medicare for all” versus fixing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and keeping private insurance. There are compelling arguments in favor of each. But the argument that preserving private insurance promotes choice is not one of them. In the first two rounds of Democratic debates, several candidates defended a position other than Medicare for all in the name of choice.
Persian Gulf - Tablet Magazine
Thirty years after the Islamic Revolution made them exiles, the Persian Jews of Los Angeles are split in new ways by an old question: how much to hold on to religious and cultural traditions forged in a country that now hates them April 6, 2011 • 7:00 AM Nessah Synagogue, the most prominent Persian synagogue in Beverly Hills, was founded in 1980 as a congregation in exile led by the son of Hakham Yedidia Shofet, the chief rabbi of Tehran and scion of a rabbinic dynasty that stretches back 12...
Meet the Tea Party's Bête Noire: Jewish Republican Lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg
Supporters of Ron Paul voice their disapproval of the rules vote Tuesday, August 28, 2012, at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.(Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/MCT/Getty Images) For most Republican voters, the point of the Republican National Convention is to focus attention on Mitt Romney, the party’s standard-bearer heading into the November general election.
Netanyahu's Main American Funders Also Back Rick perry
Gov. Perry in South Carolina yesterday.(Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) As we all know, it’s primary season—and in Israel, too, where the Likud Party, led by Prime Minister Netanyahu, is holding its leadership election on January 31.
Major Jewish GOP Donors Have Yet to Give to Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney.(Alex Wong/Getty Images) Poor Mitt Romney. Even before Newt Gingrich’s stunning upset victory Saturday in South Carolina, it was clear that the presumptive nominee was suffering from an enthusiasm deficit among the rank-and-file voters who have made this year’s primary the most volatile on record. It’s not just average voters who are failing to take to the former Massachusetts governor: Elected party officials have been slower to pick favorites this year than in any primary since 2000.
Israel’s Infuriating Treatment of Lynsey Addario
Lynsey Addario in Libya in March.(John Moore/Getty Images) It’s hard to know where to begin one’s disgust at the reports that Israeli soldiers manning the Erez border crossing from Gaza last month forced Lynsey Addario, a photographer on assignment for the New York Times, to undergo three X-ray body scans in spite of the fact that she was 27 weeks pregnant—that is to say, obviously carrying a child.
For a Once-Rational Jewish Mother-To-Be, Pregnancy Brings Out the Superstitions
Even a cell phone can tempt evil spirits.(Tablet Magazine) The name was obviously perfect as soon as it came out of my mouth, during a sleepy bedtime conversation with my husband about what we plan to call our son. I spent months struggling to imagine using any of the perfectly fine names on our original shortlist, but this one was everything we wanted: classic without being archaic, familiar without being common, striking in its full form without being awkward in the diminutive.
The Russian-American Jews of ‘Russian Dolls’
Diana Kosov on Russian Dolls.(Giovanni Rufino/Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC) In the first episode of Russian Dolls, a new Lifetime reality show set in Brooklyn and billed as a cross between Jersey Shore and the Real Housewives franchise, a 23-year-old bleached-blonde named Diana Kosov spends a lot of time fretting about her new boyfriend, Paul, who drives a Maserati and lavishes her with flowers and teddy bears but who is unfit to bring home to her parents. The problem?
Bibi’s Brain: Meet Ron Dermer, Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S.
The Prime Minister’s Office, Israel’s equivalent to the West Wing of the White House, is a nondescript complex located in Givat Ram, a neighborhood at Jerusalem’s western edge. Most of the building, which sits in the shadow of the hulking Bank of Israel and the grandly winged Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is given over to bureaucratic departments, but at its heart sits the Aquarium, a block sealed behind a series of passcard-protected glass doors that is the government’s nerve center.
Why Aren't There Any Good Kosher Restaurants in Washington, D.C.?
For people who like food, there’s never been a better time to eat in downtown Washington, D.C. In the past few years, the city, long hostage to overpriced American-contemporary steakhouses and the gut-busting Ben’s Chili Bowl, has sprouted a network of small craft restaurants turning out ambitious food that even the New York Times thinks is hip.
ERISA: A Bipartisan Problem For The ACA And The AHCA
The Supreme Court has once again been called on to mediate the boundaries of a far-reaching, infamously complex, federal employee benefits law. And once again this law may have an important and unanticipated effect on health care. The main goal of this law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), was to provide uniform, federal regulation of pensions and employee benefit plans (including health care).
ERISA: A Bipartisan Problem For The ACA And The AHCA
The Supreme Court has once again been called on to mediate the boundaries of a far-reaching, infamously complex, federal employee benefits law. And once again this law may have an important and unanticipated effect on health care. The main goal of this law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), was to provide uniform, federal regulation of pensions and employee benefit plans (including health care).
The Unhealthy Return to Individual Responsibility in Health Policy
It is still an open question—at least for a little while longer—what exactly the Republicans’ Affordable Care Act “repeal and replace” promise will entail. However, the broad contours of the Republican strategy, which both Congress and President Trump have made clear they will pursue at all deliberate speed, are already visible. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) foreshadowed the Republicans’ central approach in his Patient’s Choice Act, a health care plan he put forward in 2009.
Charlie Brotman, Now 85, Has Been the Inaugural Parade's Jewish Voice Since 1957
Barack Obama’s first inauguration, four years ago, wasn’t the most Jewish presidential inauguration ever: That honor goes to John F. Kennedy’s 1960 swearing-in, when Rabbi Nelson Glueck, president of Cincinnati’s Hebrew Union College, gave the first benediction in Hebrew on the Capitol steps, a tradition that continued until 1985. But the 2009 festivities still featured a marked outpouring of Jewish feeling.
Opinion | How Donald Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Endangers Women (Published 2016)
Op-Ed Contributors By Allison K. Hoffman and Jill R. Horwitz Dec. 28, 2016 LOS ANGELES — With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken a giant step toward undermining the health of American women. It is regrettable, but not surprising, that Mr. Trump has nominated a strident opponent of abortion.
How Trump's Health Secretary Pick Endangers Women | RealClearPolitics
With the selection of Representative Tom Price as secretary of health and human services, President-elect Donald J. Trump has taken a giant step toward undermining the health of American women. It is regrettable, but not surprising, that Mr. Trump has nominated a strident opponent of abortion.
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Law
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The Five Biggest Issues Facing the New Ninth Justice
In the first half of 2017 a new justice nominated by President Trump is likely to join the Supreme Court, which has been split 4-4 since the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February.
Reforming the Federal Reserve System
The U.S. Federal Reserve System combines money, power, and independence, so it is no surprise that it draws skeptics and critics from both the political right and left. Yet for all the criticism the Fed receives, remarkably few Americans can even identify its Chair, Janet Yellen.
A Nice Jewish Boy
What kind of person would go on a reality dating show with his mother in tow, giving every potential love connection the once-over? A nice Jewish boy, of course—one like Antonio Sabato Jr., the Italian-born heartthrob best known for gracing a 90-foot Times Square billboard wearing only his Calvin Klein briefs and a sultry half-smile.
Rooting Out Regulatory Capture
When a regulatory agency becomes “captured” by the organizations it regulates, the public loses. Capture arises when private interests exert an outsized influence over the very agencies that are supposed to keep them in check. A regulatory body that is overly reliant on industry representatives for information and policy direction might craft rules that prioritize private profits over public goals, such as protection of health and safety or the prevention of fraud.
Another Big Meal? Jewish Cooks Juggle Back-to-Back Festive Dinners Over Thanksgiving Weekend
In September of 1789, Congress passed a resolution declaring a “public day of thanksgiving and prayer,” but, in the rush of last-minute business before an autumn recess, left it up to the president to actually pick a date for the holiday.
‘Millionaire Matchmaker’: Prince vs. Douchebag
Last night on Bravo’s The Millionaire Matchmaker (which I will be rounding up every week), Patti Stanger gave a woman from Greenville, South Carolina, a dose of home truth from the yenta files: “A good BJ goes a long way.” Bonus tip: “You can actually watch television and do it at the same time.” Then Patti’s tireless aide-de-camp Destin presented us with the night’s two bachelors, a pair of classic L.A. specimens: Prince Valiant and the Douchebag.
Florida-Born Ron Dermer Is Bibi Netanyahu's Most Influential Aide
The Prime Minister’s Office, Israel’s equivalent to the West Wing of the White House, is a nondescript complex located in Givat Ram, a neighborhood at Jerusalem’s western edge. Most of the building, which sits in the shadow of the hulking Bank of Israel and the grandly winged Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is given over to bureaucratic departments, but at its heart sits the Aquarium, a block sealed behind a series of passcard-protected glass doors that is the government’s nerve center.
Deterring Homegrown Jihadis: Is Losing Citizenship Enough?
No one knows how many citizens of Western countries have gone to Syria and Iraq to wage jihad under the black-and-white flag of the insurgent Islamic State.
Prostitutes testify in "Duke" Cunningham bribery trial
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Saudi prince: No Sadat-style visit expected from King Abdullah
Saudi Arabian prince Turki al-Faisal says King Abdullah is serious about achieving peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians - but ruled out the possibility that his uncle would follow in the footsteps of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and make a trip to Jerusalem.
New Charges: Foggo Greased Wilkes' Bid For $100 Million Contract
New charges have been filed alleging that the CIA's former No. 3 official used his influence in that role to support a proposed $100 million government contract for his best friend, a defense contractor, in return for lavish vacations, private jet flights and a lucrative job offer. The indictment, returned Thursday by a federal grand jury in San Diego, supersedes charges brought in February against career CIA man Kyle "Dusty" Foggo and Poway-based contractor Brent Wilkes.
Water Deal Illuminates Secret Contracts
WASHINGTON -- CIA officers operating in northern Iraq bought drinking water from a bottling plant there for years prior to the 2003 invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. That changed soon afterward. A CIA officer handling logistics for the Middle East and other regions recommended that an American company provide water and other supplies, according to former government officials. The U.S. contractor that benefited from the multimillion-dollar deal wasn't just anyone.
Getting a Haircut for Lag b’Omer? Your Hair Can Help a Kid in Need.
This weekend, observant Jews will celebrate the festival of Lag b’Omer with bonfires, parades, archery contests—and haircuts. The holiday, which interrupts the traditional period of mourning that follows Passover, is traditionally an occasion for 3-year-old boys to have their baby locks ritually snipped and for their parents or older siblings to sneak in their only trim until Shavuot three weeks from now, when the counting of the Omer ends and its restrictions on haircuts are lifted.
A Hollywood Studio Boss Saved Hundreds of Jews From the Holocaust. Why Was He Alone?
Carl Laemmle aboard the Leviathan in the 1930s.(Bettmann/Corbis) On Dec. 27, 1938, a young woman in Berlin named Johanna Rockmann sat down and wrote a desperate letter to a stranger in California. In the immediate aftermath of Kristallnacht, it was clear that things were only getting worse for Germany’s remaining 550,000 Jews, of whom Rockmann was one.
Our Recommendation for White House Jewish Liaison: Joshua Malina of 'The West Wing'
Josh Malina as Will Bailey in The West Wing(Mitch Haddad/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) Last week, the Obama Administration’s official liaison to the Jewish community, Jarrod Bernstein, left the White House to return home to New York.
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