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The British government has quietly dropped plans to tackle abuse of the country’s National Health Service (NHS) by foreigners not entitled to free care after pressure from left-liberal activists, according to reports.

A police investigation has begun into hundreds of deaths at a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in Hampshire, England.

Democrats will hold their first congressional hearing on the single-payer, government-run healthcare proposal known as Medicare for All on Tuesday. 

LONDON (AP) – A long-awaited inquiry opened Tuesday in Britain into how contaminated blood was used to treat thousands of people in the 1970s and ’80s, killing at least 2,400.

Only one in five Americans think the federal government provides better service and coverage than private health insurance companies, according to the latest Rasmussen/Harris poll. 

Less than one-third of Americans said that implementing a Medicare for All healthcare plan amounts to a “top priority,” according to a poll released Wednesday.

Analyst Karlyn Bowman told Hill.TV that voters seem less and less interested in talking about the pursuit of charges against President Trump.

The question for 2020 is whether the Democrats will quietly champion a manageable national health plan or allow their avant-garde ideological ambitions to get the best of them.

Sen. Bill Cassidy revealed that he continues to work on his own proposal based on the successful CHIP program and would allow states to design their own healthcare plans.

Immigration is the “most important problem” in the United States among Republican voters heading into the 2020 presidential election, a new poll finds.

During a town hall on the Fox News Channel on Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that under Medicare for all, “You’re going to pay more in taxes.” He added that “the overwhelming majority of people are

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) discussed the court battle over the Affordable Care Act, said that defending the law is only the beginning, and stated that “it’s time for Republicans in Congress to come together with

My bet is that most Democrats would rather be talking about healthcare than Rep. Ilhan Omar, the by-now-notorious Democrat from Minnesota.  

If the healthcare issue is due for a revival, as President Donald Trump is indicating, then it’s worth recalling, and seeking to learn from, some of the pitfalls that befell the big and ambitious healthcare plan of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) stated that under her plan, private health insurance companies will only exist if they want to compete with a public option, and “I don’t think

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that he believes that health care will be the defining issue of the 2020 presidential election. 

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Colin Allred (D-TX) stated that “to fulfill an empty, partisan promise,” the Trump administration is working to strike down the Affordable Care Act in court. Transcript as Follows: “Hey everybody, I’m Congressman Colin Allred. I

Democrats hammered the GOP on healthcare in 2018, and without a doubt, they look forward to running on healthcare, again, in 2020. And from their point of view, why shouldn’t they?

Henry Olsen, Washington Post columnist and senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told Breitbart News that President Trump’s re-election chances in 2020 may hinge on the Republican Party’s ability to propose a healthcare bill prioritizing “patient care” over “cost.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told President Trump that the Affordable Care Act will not be repealed or replaced until after the 2020 election.

“You got to confront it!” he said. “Republicans should not run away from health care, you can’t do it, you’re going to be clobbered.”

“Vote will be taken right after the Election when Republicans hold the Senate and win back the House,” Trump wrote. “It will be truly great HealthCare that will work for America.”

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that it’s “something of a mystery” why President Trump thinks pivoting to health care is a good idea. Brooks remarked that Republicans will become the party of health care, “After he’s

“I have asked John Barrasso, Bill Cassidy, who is a terrific health care person, Rick Scott, and others to form a really great plan,” Trump said.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that the Trump administration only wants to “burn down the healthcare system, and I assume the principal reason is because it helps a lot of people

“The Republican Party will soon be known as the party of health care,” Trump said to reporters on Capitol Hill. “You watch.”

During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Representative Lauren Underwood (D-IL) stated that “my colleagues and I are going to keep moving forward with legislation to reverse and block the Republican sabotage of affordable health care and instead move our current system

Former Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey (R-NY) warned that Medicare for All proposals would cause doctors to “avoid seniors like the plague.”

Tuesday, potential 2020 Democratic hopeful Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) discussed on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” how he would address health care as president of the United States. Swalwell promised to “take a trillion dollars over 10 years” from President Donald Trump’s

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News that he is confident his 2016 voters will be even more supportive of him in 2020.

While speaking to a crowd in Cedar Rapids, IA, 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) called for “universal healthcare” in the United States, saying she wanted the public option system that former President Barack Obama sought in the past

Every year, American taxpayers are forced to subsidize the cost of healthcare for illegal aliens who have been arrested by federal immigration officials to the sum of about a quarter of a billion dollars. 

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who recently entered the crowded 2020 Democratic primary field, on Friday discussed his policies, saying his goal would be “universal guaranteed” health care and raising taxes on the wealthiest in the United States of America.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, 11–6, to allow Ohio to end taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood because it performs abortions.

Appearing on MSNBC, progressive billionaire Tom Steyer claimed President Donald Trump is the “biggest crisis for America in a generation.”

President Donald Trump told Breitbart News on Monday that he feels “very strongly” that the United States will never succumb to socialism.