“Political retribution, plain and simple,” was how US Sen. Alex Padilla described an announcement by Vice President JD Vance late Wednesday regarding the White House’s decision to withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursement payments to California. Vance and Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, claimed the state’s Medicaid records have generated “red…
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Speaking to reporters in the White House on Tuesday, President Donald Trump was asked about the potential spread of hantavirus in the U.S., following the return of over a dozen Americans who were on a cruise liner where the virus had infected multiple people. The question specifically asked about infectious disease experts expressing concern regarding the lack of an adequate government…
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Amid a significant spike in influenza cases across the United States, Mehmet Oz, the current administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is downplaying the importance of flu vaccinations, suggesting to the public, wrongly, that this year’s shot is ineffective. Oz made the comments in an appearance on Newsmax last week. “Every year, there is a flu vaccine…
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