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Artificial Intelligence Can Now Gauge Your Risk of Cardiovascular Death
Another big AI game changer? Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are using machine learning to estimate the risk of cardiovascular death. The system, RiskCardio, focuses on patients who have survived an...
Lewandowski Gives Nadler the Middle Finger in First Trump Impeachment Hearing
Instead, Lewandowski jerked Democrats around — and around and around. He delayed. He asked for specific citations when anyone referred to the Mueller report. He repeated, over and over, his instructions from the Trump...
Firms Spend $28 Million in Attempt to Kill Surprise Billing
Nashville-based Envision Healthcare is one of them https://t.co/sKZrHJYKAJ — Kara Hartnett (@kara_nashpost) September 13, 2019
Is Sanders Surging?
Two new polls show the Vermont senator gaining strength in Iowa and New Hampshire. Watch out, Elizabeth Warren.
Biden shrugs off health-care costs when Sanders brings up Canada: ‘This is America’
https://theweek.com/speedreads/864643/biden-shrugs-healthcare-costs-when-sanders-brings-canada-america
Meadows: Durham team ‘reaching people that I thought only I had talked to’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-durham-team-reaching-people-that-i-thought-only-i-had-talked-to/
Democrats Call Trump A Murdering White Supremacist, Debate ‘Moderators’ Yawn
Democrats Call Trump A Murdering White Supremacist, Debate ‘Moderators’ Yawn
Beto O’Rourke: “Hell Yes, We Are Going To Take Your AR-15”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/12/beto_orourke_hell_yes_we_are_going_to_take_your_ar-15.html
Investors’ Deep-Pocket Push To Defend Surprise Medical Bills
But as lobbyists purporting to represent doctors and hospitals fight the proposals, it has become increasingly clear that the force behind the multimillion-dollar crusade is not only medical professionals, but also investors in private...
Progressive Caucus Pushes Pelosi on Impeachment
The Congressional Progressive Caucus on Tuesday voted to back an impeachment investigation into President Trump, adding to the momentum for an inquiry even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) opposes one.
John Bolton’s turbulent tenure comes to a Trumpian end
Among accumulated grievances that had been building for months, the president was annoyed that Bolton would regularly call on members of Congress to try to get them to push Bolton-preferred policies on Trump, according...
Ellis: A healthcare tax cut for seniors every politician should love
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-healthcare-tax-cut-for-seniors-every-politician-should-love
States Pass Record Number Of Laws To Reel In Drug Prices
https://khn.org/news/states-pass-record-number-of-laws-to-reel-in-drug-prices/
The best health care reform is already in place
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/460455-the-best-health-care-reform-is-already-in-place
Tulsi Gabbard: ‘It’s fair’ to say 2020 Democrats advocate for ‘open borders’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-its-fair-to-say-2020-democrats-advocate-for-open-borders
Biden in lead, but does campaign have the enthusiasm to keep it?
https://apnews.com/1cb1d21c69b546ffa5e09dc3b0eadb83
How ‘Trump Trauma’ could hand the Democrats a victory in 2020
https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/how-trump-trauma-could-hand-the-democrats-a-victory-in-2020/
The most interesting finding was that the second choice of Bernie Sanders’ supporters is Joe Biden and the second choice of Biden supporters is Sanders.
“Perhaps showing the influence of gender on people’s choices, Warren and Harris showed the same pattern with their adherents.” “An interesting question is what would happen to the race if Harris were to drop...
Warren and Clinton talk behind the scenes as 2020 race intensifies — neither camp wants to talk about it, but the two women have recently grown closer.
“It would be counterproductive for the first woman nominee of the party to not be supportive of a woman who may go over that threshold,” Kozikowski said
Where the presidential race stands: Biden’s strange advantage
“Once you move beyond that ballot test, Biden’s numbers get a lot worse. In the Economist poll, his favorable/unfavorable numbers are below water at 39-47, about the same as Trump. His numbers among Independents...
Biden’s Eyeball Fills with Blood During CNN Town Hall: CNN never reported it. Neither did MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, or PBS. The New York Times and The Washington Post skipped it.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/09/06/joe-bidens-bloody-eye-cnn-somehow-spiked-everyone-fox Meanwhile, the Washington Examiner, quotes Biden’s wife saying, “Jill Biden said in her recently released autobiography Where the Light Enters that, at the time, she feared her husband would never be the same. ‘Our doctor...
Slate: When Did Joe Biden Start Believing He Had Opposed the Iraq War?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/joe-biden-iraq-vote-what-now.html
Cyber Karma: Making Costs to Foreign Powers who Steal our Intellectual Property (IP) Commensurate with the Value of the Stolen IP
In short, this proposal is simply to bring to bear some cyber karma on those nations who steal U.S. intellectual property. Therefore, if any nation, like China, pillages our military or digital or agricultural...
Groupon Coupon that gets you a $26 MRI Criticised by NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/09/05/757708356/groupon-for-medical-scans-discounted-care-can-have-hidden-costs?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top
Biden’s eye fills with blood during CNN climate town hall
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bidens-eye-fills-with-blood-during-cnn-climate-town-hall “Jill Biden said in her recently released autobiography Where the Light Enters that, at the time, she feared her husband would never be the same. ‘Our doctor told us there was a 50-50 chance Joe...
What is a subconjunctival hemorrhage? Blood in Joe Biden’s eye causes concern
https://www.today.com/health/what-subconjunctival-hemorrhage-blood-joe-biden-s-eye-causes-concern-t161957
Study: Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard Receive Disproportionately Small Media Coverage
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/03/study-andrew-yang-tulsi-gabbard-receive-disproportionately-small-media-coverage/
Howard Schultz announces he won’t run for president
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/460202-howard-schultz-announces-he-wont-run-for-president
Muslim airline mechanic accused of sabotaging flight
https://www.apnews.com/6f03105ca6ff4a36bb728626802565eb
22 million pounds of plastics enter the Great Lakes each year. Most of the pollution pours into Lake Michigan.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-met-lake-michigan-plastic-pollution-20190904-2xf3qogqv5bpfco2plndapak2q-story.html
Bombshell Report Reveals Obamacare’s Epic Medicaid Waste
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2019/09/03/new-bombshell-report-reveals-obamacares-epic-medicaid-waste/#6277dad43e31
New Jersey ObamaCare Co-op Becomes 17th to Collapse
https://www.atr.org/new-jersey-obamacare-co-op-becomes-17th-collapse-1
Houston Chronicle Editorial: Why ObamaCare Trumps Medicare for All
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Why-Obamacare-trumps-Medicare-for-All-Editorial-14402660.php
Reforming America’s Healthcare System Through Choice and Competition
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/Reforming-Americas-Healthcare-System-Through-Choice-and-Competition.pdf
HQY Acquires WAGE
HealthEquity, Inc. HQY recently completed the previously-announced acquisition of WageWorks for a deal value of $2 billion. Additionally, the company announced an $80-$100 million investment. With the WageWorks customer care, HealthEquity expects to expand...
Protesters Win: Hong Kong leader formally withdraws controversial extradition bill
http://news.trust.org/item/20190904094108-908ip
The 10 counties that will decide the 2020 election
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/459832-the-10-counties-that-will-decide-the-2020-election
Is Elizabeth Warren the Hillary Clinton of 2020?
The voters backing Elizabeth Warren are highly educated, predominately women and more white than the working class, less white, more diverse Biden and Sanders voters. In other words, Elizabeth Warren is the Hillary Clinton...
Warren Pulls to Four Points from Biden
https://www.investors.com/news/elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-sanders-democratic-race-biden-vs-trump/
Hong Kong leader withdraws extradition bill, but some say too little too late
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kong-leader-announces-withdrawal-of-controversial-extradition-bill-idUSKCN1VP05B
Video of the Worst-Case Scenario for the Bahama’s Actually Happening
Dorian ravaging Grand Bahama over the last 14 hours. Essentially the worst case scenario for the island. pic.twitter.com/UYxddpfxOA — Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) September 2, 2019
Rut Row: Hong Kong protesters defy police ban to march for 13th week
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hong-kong-protest-marchers-defy-police-ban-to-march-for-13th-week-today-2019-08-31/
SUPER SHOCK: Women Remember Events Better Than Men, Study Finds
https://www.studyfinds.org/told-you-so-women-remember-events-better-than-men-study-finds/
They Got Estimates Before Surgery — And A Bill After That Was 50% More
They Got Estimates Before Surgery — And A Bill After That Was 50% More
Tom Steyer’s mega-millions debate gambit flops
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/29/tom-steyer-billionaire-2020-debate-1477645 “Tom Steyer is the only one who has been able to spend enough to get the name recognition and the support in the early states” with paid media, said Patrick Murray, director of...
Only one-third of Americans believe Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide
https://nypost.com/2019/08/29/only-one-third-of-americans-believe-jeffrey-epstein-committed-suicide/
Immekus: The benefits of a health savings account
https://www.lodinews.com/opinion/article_a22c4be8-c9bb-11e9-a199-e3b3603a4dec.html