Category: Health Care

Thanks to an Americans for Prosperity Foundation (“AFPF”) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last week publicly released — for the first time ever — state-specific Medicaid improper payment rates going back to 2012. The agency had been ignoring multiple congressional requests for the data that were made … Continue reading After years of stonewalling CMS releases data on $86 billion in bogus Medicaid payments

House Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) opening statement at a Select Subcommittee’s hearing calls out President Biden for breaking his promise to “shut down the virus” and saying there “is no federal solution” to defeat COVID. Whip Scalise urges President Biden to listen to medical … Continue reading Scalise: Biden’s COVID Response is in Tatters

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Republican lawmakers pressed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock on the agency’s failure to process numerous pending Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) applications for lifesaving COVID-19 therapeutics and treatments. In the letter to the Acting Commissioner, the Republican lawmakers … Continue reading Oversight Republicans press FDA on blockade of livesaving COVID treatments

This week House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock expressing concerns over more reports the Biden Administration is improperly interfering at the FDA. This time, according to former high-ranking FDA officials, the agency is taking short cuts … Continue reading Comer Probes Biden’s Sidelining of FDA Vaccine Experts

U.S. Senator and physician Rand Paul (R-KY) announced he will be introducing legislation next week to overturn the COVID-19 vaccination requirements on consumers and students imposed by the District of Columbia. Dr. Paul’s bill, the Restore Parental and Consumer Medical Rights in the Nation’s Capital Act will repeal the mandate requiring a vaccine to enter … Continue reading Dr. Rand Paul to Introduce Legislation to Repeal DC Vaccine Mandates for Consumers and Students

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) this week called for a transcribed interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci after new information reveals he may have concealed information from government officials about COVID-19 originating from the Wuhan lab and the virus … Continue reading Comer & Jordan: Fauci’s Emails Raise Questions of Lab Leak Cover Up