Science, Medicine, & Education

Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday said a House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is fatally flawed because it relies on a three-pronged plan for totally gutting the 2010 law instead of killing it outright. GOP leaders have urged their troops to rally around a bill that repeals Obamacare’s mandate requiring people to hold insurance […]

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Sunday he feels “very good” about his Obamacare replacement’s prospects for passage this week, saying President Trump is a “great closer” who will bring enough Republicans on board with the plan. Yet Mr. Ryan confirmed that negotiators are looking at ways to offer additional help to older Americans whose

President Trump “either doesn’t know or doesn’t care” what his health care bill will do to his most ardent supporters, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Sunday. “He really doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s most unfortunate,” she told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said the Republican bill pushed by House

An alleged Twitter troll behind a virtual attack that caused Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald to suffer a seizure was arrested on Friday. The suspect faces federal charges and could face additional counts in Dallas, where Eichenwald lives, according to the writer. FBI officials arrested the man at his home in in Salisbury, Maryland, before

Following waves of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers across the country, more than a quarter of JCC preschools have reported a decline in enrollment. In a survey carried out last week by the Jewish Community Center Association of North America, in which 90 of its 116 members responded, 26 replied that enrollment has fallen.

President Trump’s proposed budget chops $6 billion, about a fifth of the total budget, from the National Institutes of Health, a move that could decimate biomedical research in a number of areas and stagger academic institutions around the country that depend on NIH grant money to keep their scientific research programs afloat. Research funding at

So it’s finally out. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its much-anticipated cost estimate of the Republican health care plan that’s making its way through the House of Representatives. No wonder the White House and Republican leaders in Congress have been dissing the CBO recently. “Sometimes we ask them to do stuff they’re not

Twenty-four million people will lose health insurance by 2026 if the healthcare plan put forward by House Republicans is enacted, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report released Monday. The CBO estimated the American Health Care Act, the bill proposed by House Republicans to repeal and replace the American Care Act, also