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Defense Health Care: Actions Needed to Improve Billing and Collection of Debt for Civilian Emergency Care
What GAO Found Department of Defense (DOD) documentation and officials have identified several benefits to providing care to civilian emergency patients at DOD medical treatment facilities (MTFs). For example, providing such care can promote the readiness of military health care providers because it increases the volume of patients they treat and allows them to treat …
Actions being taken to support mental health locally
Steps are being taken to change the approach to helping those in a mental health crisis and getting them the care they need. FORT SMITH, Ark. — A crisis is defined as a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger. Frequently, local law enforcement encounters someone who is experiencing some sort of crisis. In recent …
COST Actions provide space to grow ideas in science and technology fields
Over the years, COST Actions have become one the main instrument for research collaboration in Europe. Thanks to a large spectrum of networking tools provided by the COST Actions, researchers and innovators have a dedicated space to grow their ideas in any science and technology field by sharing them with their peers. And if science …
Biden announces slate of gun control actions, claims ‘public health crisis’
President Biden on Thursday announced a set of executive actions and legislative proposals on gun control, saying that gun violence is “a public health crisis” and the administration’s actions do not contravene Second Amendment rights. The administration aims to “confront not just the gun crisis but what is actually a public health crisis,” Biden said in …
Biden poised to wind down executive actions next week to focus on Covid relief
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is planning to wind down his initial burst of executive actions by the middle of next week and shift his focus to getting key parts of his legislative agenda passed, with the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package as the top priority, according to three administration officials. Biden has been quietly …
Joe Biden’s ‘climate day’ of executive actions signals clean break with Trump | Joe Biden
Sign up for the Guardian’s First Thing newsletter Joe Biden is to instruct the US government to pause and review all oil and gas drilling on federal land, eliminate fossil fuel subsidies and transform the government’s vast fleet of cars and trucks into electric vehicles, in a sweeping new set of climate executive orders. The …
Trump’s actions in last days as President increase his legal jeopardy
“There are potential state and federal crimes that he can be prosecuted for just for the things he’s done this past week and what’s troubling for him is he won’t have the immunity from prosecution that DOJ say says a sitting president has as of next Wednesday,” said Harry Sandick, a former federal prosecutor. Sandick …
Stimulus talks stalled: Breaking down the executive actions Trump signed on coronavirus relief
Here’s a breakdown of the actions, the many strings attached and questions about what they actually accomplish. Trump described the memorandum signed Saturday as an action providing “an additional or extra $400 a week and expanded benefits.” But in reality, the additional unemployment aid is more complicated than the White House acknowledged and experts say …
Trump signs executive actions after stimulus talks break down
Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Saturday signed executive actions, one of which would provide $400 a week in federal enhanced unemployment benefits after Democrats and the White House were unable to reach an agreement on a Coronavirus stimulus relief bill this week. “I’m taking action to provide an additional or extra $400 a week and …
Acrimony and impasse: Pelosi alleges Republicans don’t give ‘a damn’ about unemployed as Trump readies executive actions
The messy back and forth came just hours before Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and top White House officials are set to meet in the Capitol for another round of talks. Enhanced unemployment benefits expired last week for more than 30 million Americans and an eviction moratorium also expired. The small business …
