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House lawmakers want Medicare to fund mental health peer support services Getty Images Two House lawmakers reintroduced a bill Thursday that would allow Medicare to fund mental and behavioral health services from trained specialists with similar challenges to their patients. The Promoting Effective and Empowering Recovery in Medicare Act of 2021, introduced by Reps. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) and Judy Chu (D-Calif.), would clarify that CMS can reimburse peer support specialists for services rendered in mental and physical health settings. Currently, Medicare and private health insurers are not ab...

House committees to vote on bills on D.C. statehood and reparations By Grace Segers Inside the push for D.C. statehood Washington — Two House committees will take up measures long championed by progressives on Wednesday, signaling that congressional Democrats are willing to move forward with their priorities despite narrow majorities in the House and Senate. One panel will vote on advancing a bill to admit Washington, D.C., as a state, while the other will take up a measure that would create a commission studying reparations for descendants of slaves. The D.C. statehood ...

House committees vote on D.C. statehood and reparations bills Grace Segers © Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Biden's Hopes For GOP Backing On Next Economic Plan Shrinking Washington — Two House committees took up measures long championed by progressives on Wednesday, signaling that congressional Democrats are willing to move forward with their priorities despite narrow majorities in the House and Senate. One panel voted to advance a bill to admit Washington, D.C., as a state, while the other approved a measure that would create a commission studying repa...

Republicans' overturning of DeWine's health-order veto puts Ohioans at risk Thomas Suddes If there were a Guinness Book of Irresponsibility, Ohio General Assembly Republicans have again earned themselves special mention. No, we’re not talking about school funding, although last month marked the 24th anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s school-funding reform order – which the legislature has yet to obey. Nor are we talking about the $700 million that Ohio electricity customers will pay to bail out two coal-fueled power plants, including one in Indiana. That coal-plan...

Republican legislators voting to overturn Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of Substitute Senate Bill 22 is a potentially lethal decision.