“It feels good to kind of have some kind of happy out of so much sad and grief and loss,” Emanuel said.
with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.The U.S. social safety net would be jolted if the budget bill backed by President Donald Trump and passed Thursday by the House of Representatives becomes law.
It would impose work requirements for low-income adults to receive Medicaid health insurance and increase them for food assistance as well as cut funding for services like birth control to the nation’s biggest abortion provider.Supporters of the bill say the moves will save money, root out waste and encourage personal responsibility.A preliminary estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the proposals would reduce the number of people with health care by 8.6 million over a decade.
The measure, which also includes tax cuts,and could have provisions reworked again as it heads to the Senate.
Here’s a look at the potential impact.
Starting next year, many able-bodied Medicaid enrollees under 65 would be required to show that they work, volunteer or go to school in exchange for the health insurance coverage.Now, a study of 170,000 patient records suggests there’s a slightly lower risk of obesity-related cancers in U.S. adults with diabetes who took these
compared to those who took another class of diabetes drug not associated with weight loss.This type of study can’t prove cause and effect, but the findings hint at a connection worth exploring.
are associated with obesity.“This is a call to scientists and clinical investigators to do more work in this area to really prove or disprove this,” said Dr. Ernest Hawk of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who was not involved in the study.