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Health Care Reporter on Capitol Hill for /. Making puns about the news. Write to me: aollstein@politico.com

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    Dec 27

    House Dems already plotting ways to reopen the government on Jan. 3 m. Story w/⁦⁩

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    Dec 27

    EXCLUSIVE: A Daily Beast investigation found that nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money went to ICE's for-profit prisons this year—where migrants work for pennies in conditions advocates say resemble slave labor

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  3. Dec 26

    . is a goddamn masterpiece that everyone needs to see immediately.

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    Dec 24

    Among the ways Ben Carson has rolled back civil rights enforcement as HUD Secretary: He has departed from the practices of recent Democratic and Republican predecessors of using their secretarial power to root out systemic racial discrimination.

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  5. Dec 23

    2666 is unreadable and everyone who claims to love it is lying to impress their friends

    Give me your spiciest, maddest, most sacrilegious Book Opinion.
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    Dec 23

    As Trump itches to fire his new Fed chair, let’s recall he got rid of the last one because she was too short.

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    Dec 21

    When health providers in China reacted to reports about problems with IBM’s flagship cancer product IBM’s partner in China offered reporters $ for positive coverage

    STAT Plus exclusive: In , IBM is scrambling to respond to the same doubts that emerged about Watson Health in the U.S. and Europe.
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  8. Dec 21

    World's Greatest Deliberative Body!

    Senate reaches landmark agreement to keep talking about stuff six hours before government shutdown deadline
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  9. Dec 21

    Trump's Medicaid chief characterizes new work requirement rules approved this week (similar to those that caused 16k-and-counting Arkansans to lose insurance) as a gift from Santa

    The CMS sleigh has made deliveries to Kansas, Rhode Island, Michigan, & Maine this week to drop off signed waivers. Christmas came early for these Governors & we are proud to support local innovation all across this great country!
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  10. Dec 21

    Hours away from a shutdown, a rainbow arcs over Capitol Hill. Metaphor?

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  11. Dec 21

    . on Trump saying just a few days ago that he would be proud to shut down the government: “Not the smartest thing to do.”

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  12. Dec 21

    . says he fears Mattis’ resignation will spur more officials to quit, but won’t say if he’s heard any names yet.

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  13. Dec 21

    A tired says that when Senate Republicans passed a short term gov funding bill without border wall money earlier this week, they were confident Trump would sign it.

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  14. Dec 20

    . is a documentary.

    A wild & story about Zach Fuentes, deputy WH chief of staff, maneuvering to secretly “hide out” on payroll past Kelly’s ouster and get Coast Guard retirement rules changed for his personal benefit
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  15. Dec 20

    Not-sketchy-at-all door in the Senate basement

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  16. Dec 20

    “Look at WALL, Michael!”

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    this is an actual quote from the secretary of homeland security of the united states, and not the incredible hulk. "from congress i would ask for wall. we need wall." hulk smash.
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  17. Dec 20

    You have gouda be kidding me...

    While we wait to see what will happen in the funding fight, on the House floor is a debate over the definition of natural cheese. It is known as the CURD act.
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  18. Dec 20

    The Trump admin tried to implement the new rules last year without first allowing the public to comment. Courts said "nuh uh."

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  19. Dec 20

    Without a court injunction, many more employers will be able to claim a religious or moral exemption to Obamacare's requirement that insurance cover all forms of birth control with no copays.

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  20. Dec 20

    BREAKING: California's is suing to block the Trump administration's new rules allowing more employers to refuse to cover birth control in their employee health plans. If courts don't step in, the rules will go into effect Jan. 14

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