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September 29, 2017

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HHS Secretary Price Resigns

Tom Price, M.D., secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), resigned today amid a nationwide controversy over his use of private jets for government travel, sticking the taxpaying public with a tab of $1 million or more. Before the announcement of Price's resignation, President Trump called him "a good man" but said "the optics" weren't good. Don Wright, director of the Office of Disease P...

September 28, 2017

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EEOC Says No New Wellness Rule Until Late 2019

While the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decides whether to vacate the current Wellness Rule, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says it won't be able to issue a revised rule until October 2019, effective in 2021. In August, the court ordered the EEOC to revisit and redo the current Wellness Rule because, in a lawsuit brought by the AARP, the court found ...

September 26, 2017

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NLRB Now in Republican Control

The Senate on Monday, Sept. 25, confirmed business lawyer William Emanuel, President Trump's pick to fill an open seat on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), by a vote of 49-47. The vote puts the board, the nation's top labor law enforcement agency, under the control of Republicans, 3-to-2, for the first time since President George W. Bush's administration. The newly constituted board ...

September 22, 2017

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Appeals Court Rules the ADA Is Not a Leave Entitlement

In a case involving a worker who exhausted his Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) 12 weeks of leave and then requested more time off under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the “ADA is an antidiscrimination statute, not a medical-leave entitlement.” In Severson v. Heartland Woodcraft, Inc., the court was to determine if the company was...

September 22, 2017

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McCain Again Sinks Repeal and Replace

Though the votes haven't been cast yet, today's decision by Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) to vote no appears to be the end of the Senate's latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare. Sen. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) is also on the nay record, leaving Sens. Susan Collins (R.-R.I.) and Lisa Murkowski (R.-Alaska), who lean toward the no vote, to bring 50 needed votes to the table to pass the Graham-Cassi...

September 19, 2017

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HRSA Awards $200M for Mental Health and Opioid Addiction Treatment

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded more than $200 million to 1,178 health centers and 13 rural health organizations in every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Basin to increase access to substance abuse and mental health services. “No corner of our country, from rural areas to urban centers, has escaped the s...

September 19, 2017

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Sen. McCain Signals Reluctant Support for Latest Repeal and Replace Effort

The latest Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare in the form of the Graham-Cassidy bill got a boost on Monday when Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.) indicated he might vote yea so long as his state's governor supported the measure. Later in the day, Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey gave his approval of the measure. Just two months ago, McCain was the third no vote among Senate Republic...

September 18, 2017

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EEOC Issues Guide on Providing Assistance Under the Rehabilitation Act

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today announced the release of a Questions and Answers Guide to assist federal agencies to provide personal assistance services (PAS) under Section 501 the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which is available on the EEOC's website. In January 2017, the EEOC amended the regulations implementing Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act, the law that proh...

September 17, 2017

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Repeal and Replace Gains New Traction

A new Republican bill that would gut the Affordable Care Act (ACAA) and replace it with block grants to the states to implement their own health care programs -- even single-payer -- is breathing new life into the "repeal and replace" movement that failed just seven weeks ago. Already, however, Sens. Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) and Susan Collins (R.-R.I.) have bowed out, leaving just 50 Republican sena...

September 16, 2017

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CMS Says 63 Counties to Be Without Obamacare Provider

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted an update to its Health Insurance Exchanges Issuer County Map. This map is of projected issuer participation on the Health Insurance Exchanges in 2018 based on the known issuer public announcements through Sept. 13, 2017. Participation is expected to fluctuate and does not represent actual exchange application submissions. This ma...

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