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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 16, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) will disallow $200 million in federal Medi-Cal funding next quarter due to California’s refusal to stop imposing abortion coverage mandates on health plans and issuers. Each quarter CMS will disallow another $200 million in Medicaid Federal Financial Participation funds until California abandons its abortion coverage mandate. HHS states that its enforcement action is ...

Also included is another COVID-19 relief “stimulus” package, this one costing taxpayers nearly $1 trillion. Congressional leaders have the enormous and oftentimes difficult responsibility of choosing the best policy decisions to present to their peers. This is a challenge under normal circumstances—even more so when they have to decide on a bundle of policy decisions, and under a tight deadline. This was abundantly clear with Monday’s appropriations package. While the bill includes some positive provisions, it fails to meet the needs of the country in other significant respects. Here ...

David Ditch is a research associate specializing in budget and transportation policy in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Congressional leaders introduced on Monday a fiscal year 2021 omnibus appropriations bill that would provide $1.4 trillion in spending for government agencies as well as a variety of unrelated legislative provisions. Also included is another COVID-19 relief “stimulus” package, this one costing taxpayers nearly $1 trillion. Congressional leaders have the enormous and oftentimes difficult responsibility of choosing the best p...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks at a White House event, 'Life is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments,' Dec. 16, 2020. | Screenshot: YouTube/The White House Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that his department was taking action against California and a hospital in Vermont that implemented policies violating the conscience rights of those opposed to abortion.  Azar was among many notable speakers at a White House event, called “Life is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments,” hosted by Vice President Mik...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar speaks at a White House event, 'Life is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments,' Dec. 16, 2020. | Screenshot: YouTube/The White House Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that his department was taking action against California and a hospital in Vermont that implemented policies violating the conscience rights of those opposed to abortion.  Azar was among many notable speakers at a White House event, called “Life is Winning: Celebrating 4 Years of Pro-Life Accomplishments,” hosted by Vice President Mik...