In the last two years, between January 2017 and January 2019, the Office of Minority Health (OMH), an agency within... View Article
Continue readingShareholders of health care insurers reject disclosure of companies’ dark money
Shareholders of Aetna and Anthem have rejected measures to require the companies to disclose their donations to 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organizations.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Will a recent court decision jeopardize open data in health care?
Democratizing new blockchain technology with big and open data will remove the middlemen in healthcare faster than the internet came to life in the mid-1990s. But who is hindering the progress?
Continue readingHow open data is changing the way Uruguayans choose their health care
A new tool from DATA Uruguay is opening up health care data, allowing the country's citizens to make informed choices about which provider is best for them.
Continue readingThe Impact of Open: Keeping you healthy
Health data makes the case for the social impact of open data.
Continue readingDoctors lobbying Congress against pay cuts
In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Democrat and Republican members of Congress are united in backing legislation that would to keep physician pay high under the federal Medicare program.
Continue readingTo battle tax, medical device industry turns to D.C. insiders
As the country hurtles toward financial default and the government shutdown enters it's 16th day, one of the crucial elements surfacing in various GOP proposals to end the stalemate is a repeal of the medical device tax, passed as part of the Affordable Care Act. While the industry was not powerful enough to keep the tax out of Obamacare, it has waged a strong campaign since to win a repeal, employing Washington lobbyists-for-hire with deep Washington contacts. Meet some of these lobbyists via our Influence Explorer and Party Time tools.
Tarplin, Downs & Young. Cofounded in 2006 by a trio ...
Continue readingAd spotlight: GOP family feud
The rift in the Republican party is turning into an air war.
Usually, video attacks are reserved for election opponents or members of the opposite party but as members of Congress returned home for their August recess, members of the GOP appear to be gleefully violating the late President Ronald Reagan's "11th commandment" -- the one that said you shoul never speak ill of a fellow Republican. What we've spotted so far:
Freedomworks is going after John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican leader in the Senate leadership. The Tea Party-affiliated think tank is accusing the Texas Republican of betraying ...
Continue readingHouse members delete tweets echoing Supreme mistweet
The general mayhem following mistaken all-too-instant analyses of Thursday's nearly 200-page Supreme Court package of opinions on the health care law included several members of Congress eating their words – or tweets, rather – according to Sunlight Foundation’s Politwoops.
“Individual Mandate ruled unconstitutional. Let Freedom Ring,” posted Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., in an immediate response to news stories that erroneously indicated that the high court had overturned health care law. Ross deleted the inaccurate tweet, moments later, when it became clear that two networks often watched in congressional offices -- CNN and Fox -- had blown the call. Gannett News Service has ...
Continue readingWhat’s in a name? A look at how ‘health reform’ became ‘Obamacare’
The political backdrop for Thursday's Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care law is vividly illustrated in the way rhetoric about the controversial measure has changed. The orange line indicates frequency of mentions for "Obamacare." The pink line is for "health reform."
In the graphic above, created by Capitol Words -- Sunlight's tool for tracking the language used on the floor of Congress -- you can see how the derogatory term "Obamacare," invented and mostly used by Republicans, as seen below. The red line indicates Republican mentions of the term, the blue, Democrats.
If winning a debate means ...
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