The bill includes several proposed changes to Medicaid. Lawmakers argue that changes introduced by the bill will bring in hundreds of billions in necessary savings through the introduction of new work requirements. Beginning at the end of 2026, childless adults without disabilities would be required to work 80 hours per month to qualify for benefits.
The Republican-controlled House narrowly passed a sweeping tax and spending bill that would enact much of President Donald Trump's policy agenda on Thursday and saddle the country with trillions of dollars in debt. The bill would fulfill many of Trump's populist campaign pledges, delivering new tax breaks on tips and car loans and boosting spending on the military and border enforcement. It will add about $3.8tn to the federal government’s $36.2 trillion in debt over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan CBO.
As Kettering Health continues to deal with an ongoing technology outage following a cyberattack, the hospital system has released very few answers to patients and some are worried about how this may impact their care and ongoing treatments.
The U.S. pharmacy chain, which operates about 1,200 stores and has some 8 million customers, filed for bankruptcy earlier this month for the second time in two years. Its retail business was performing poorly due to decreased drug sales margins.
Some people can’t get their bad cholesterol levels down, even if they take cholesterol-lowering meds. A new clinical trial using a combination of existing and not-yet-released cholesterol tablets lowered bad cholesterol by almost half in people at high risk of heart disease.
The reverberations that ChatGPT sent through one of Silicon Valley’s most powerful technology empires say a lot about the nature of disruption in the tech industry. Google had seen off any number of would-be search engine rivals over the years, but here was something different and potentially much more threatening: an entirely new way to ask for information.