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Daniel Werfel: Senate confirms Biden’s IRS commissioner

9Mar

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Daniel Werfel: Senate confirms Biden’s IRS commissioner

CNN — The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Daniel Werfel, the former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, to lead the IRS. He was approved on a bipartisan 54-42 vote. Werfel’s confirmation to the agency comes after he was grilled by the Senate Committee on Finance last month on how he plans to utilize the money in new funding coming to the IRS over the next decade to revitalize the tax agency as taxpayers could see increased audit rates. Democrats approved the $80 billion for the agency last year when they approved the Inflation Reduction Act in a party-line vote. Democrats backed the funding in its bid to crack down on tax dodgers and to provide better services for taxpayers, a...

Bindi Irwin undergoes surgery for endometriosis after decade-long battle with illness

9Mar

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Bindi Irwin undergoes surgery for endometriosis after decade-long battle with illness

Bindi Irwin has undergone surgery for endometriosis — an inflammatory condition in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows on the outside of the uterus — after struggling with the condition for a decade, the wildlife expert revealed Tuesday.Irwin shared a photo of herself in a hospital bed post-surgery on Instagram, writing that she "battled for a long time wondering if I should share this journey with you in such a public space.""It came down to the responsibility I feel to share my story for other women who need help," Irwin wrote. Irwin, the only daughter of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, the world-famous Australian television personality and conservationist who was killed by a stingray in 2006 while filming off the Great Barrier Reef, shared the news during Endo...

‘Angry’ parents speak out on their daughter who froze to death on N.S. street

4Mar

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Global News

‘Angry’ parents speak out on their daughter who froze to death on N.S. street

Two parents are grieving the loss of their daughter, who froze to death on the streets of Dartmouth just hours after they say their daughter was dismissed from a mental health clinic.They blame Nova Scotia’s mental health system.“We’re are very frustrated with the system and very angry,” mother Irina Andriychuk said. “We lost our daughter to, actually, a terrible health system.”Irina and Mike Andriychuk said their daughter Yuliya died the night of Nov. 14, 2022. She was 32 years old. Yuliya Andriychuk suffered a mental breakdown for the first time in 2020, two years before her death. Submitted: Irina Andriychuk Her medical records indicate she went into mental distress while outdoors and died from hypothermia.The Andriychuks sa...

Disparities in the Health Care System, Explained by Doctors – NBC Boston

1Mar

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Disparities in the Health Care System, Explained by Doctors – NBC Boston

Top Boston doctors talked about long-standing racial inequities in the health care system as part of NBC10 Boston’s Discover Black Heritage initiative. Dr. Sabrina Assoumou, an infectious disease physician at Boston Medical Center; Dr. Sharlay Butler, an obstetrician gynecologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Dr. Sharma Joseph, an anesthesiologist and critical care physician at Tufts Medical Center, explained the disparities related to COVID-19, reliance on emergency care and Black maternal mortality. COVID-19 Pandemic The coronavirus pandemic brought to light many longstanding racial inequities in the health care system both in Massachusetts and across the nation. The three doctors said they are worried about equal access to care in Massachusetts now that ...

Ottawa signs health-care funding deals with Ontario, Atlantic provinces

23Feb

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Ottawa signs health-care funding deals with Ontario, Atlantic provinces

Ottawa has inked health-care accords with five provinces just two weeks after presenting its $196.1 billion offer to premiers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday, paving the way for new investments and improvements to Canada’s ailing health system. Ontario and the four Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have all signed memorandums of understanding to start negotiations on how Ottawa’s 10-year funding agreements will help improve outcomes for patients and working conditions for burned-out health care workers, Trudeau said. Read more: Premiers agree to accept Ottawa’s health funding offer: ‘A step in the right direction’ Read next: How rising food prices make eating...

Health care workers’ protests and strikes mount across Spain

19Feb

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Health care workers’ protests and strikes mount across Spain

Spanish health workers are continuing to protest and strike against the capitalist offensive against health care. Strikes and protests have continued for over a year, and doctors, nurses and other health staff have taken separate action in regions across the country. Strikes were called in Cantabria in November, Catalonia in January, Navarra in February, and Valencia in March and April.In Madrid, the epicentre of this struggle, strikes have proceeded intermittently since the end of last year. They culminated in a protest by half a million people in Madrid in mid-November in defence of the public health care system and against its dismantling and privatization under the right-wing Popular Party (PP) regional government of Isabel Ayuso. Organizers say 670,000 people took to the streets, o...

Part I – Administrative Waste And Inefficiencies

13Feb

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Part I – Administrative Waste And Inefficiencies

This is the first in a four-part series on the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value’s newly released report, “A Road Map for Action.” Each piece will detail one of the four priority areas within the report, which provides recommendations on how the U.S. can take a more deliberate approach to moderating health care spending growth while maximizing value. On February 3rd, the Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value released its report, “A Road Map for Action.” It’s the culmination of four years of study, debate, and collaboration between 21 experts in the healthcare field, each representing diverse sectors of the industry. Our goal was to take a nonpartisan, evidence-based approach to understanding our nation’s growing health care spending, the value ...

SC STATE UNIVERSITY: Health training center gets OK | National News

12Feb

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SC STATE UNIVERSITY: Health training center gets OK | National News

The South Carolina State University trustee board approved the development of a Health Equity Research and Training Center, which will house an initiative designed to create the next generation of minority community health workers."It is the mission of the HERT-C to improve the health of families by enhancing public awareness, health service delivery and culturally responsive research and services for vulnerable populations and their families," S.C. State Provost Dr. Frederick Evans said."The center is designed to seek interdisciplinary collaboration between behavioral, social, family and consumer scientists, community organizations and health care provider...

Biden brings economic message to Wisconsin on first trip after State of the Union

8Feb

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Biden brings economic message to Wisconsin on first trip after State of the Union

Washington — President Biden on Wednesday traveled to Wisconsin, a battleground state he won by the slimmest of margins in 2020, to press his economic message and other themes from his State of the Union address in the window before his next big speech: announcing a possible reelection bid.Mr. Biden promoted his economic plan at a training center run by the Laborers' International Union of North America in Deforest, Wisconsin, near Madison. He touted the economic progress he's made in terms of growing jobs, particularly in the manufacturing sector, and spent time talking about aspects of his economic agenda, including tackling "junk fees." Echoing a line he delivered Tuesday, he said his economic plan "is about investing in places that have been forgotten." ...

Sask. Premier Scott Moe expecting increased health care funding ahead of meeting

6Feb

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Global News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe expecting increased health care funding ahead of meeting

All 13 Canadian premiers will be meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday to discuss funding for health care. On Sunday, as he was leaving for Ottawa, Premier Scott Moe said he was pleased to finally have the meeting, noting that they’ve been asking for it for the past 18 months. Read more: Health-care deal should come shortly after Feb. 7 meeting with PM: Ford Read next: China admits 2nd surveillance balloon flying over Latin America is theirs “In order to address the challenges that are similar – but often different as well – across the nation, we are going to need some flexibility across Canada in how we’re going to invest those dollars,” Moe said.He noted the premiers asked for a $28-billion increase to the federa...