Bernie Sanders (D-VT) claims the support of 17 Democrats for his single-payer health care bill, Save Jerseyans, but it seems more likely to be on the Democrat platform in 2020 than on President Trump’s desk anytime soon. Republicans are pushing back all the same. “Senator Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is one that my constituents […]
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TRENTON — The head of a New Jersey pharmaceutical giant resigned in protest from a White House advisory board Monday, prompting President Donald Trump to attack the company on Twitter. Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier stepped down from the American Manufacturing Council, citing Trump’s response to the violence that unfolded at a white supremacist rally in […]
With Obamacare failing but Republicans deadlocked over possible alternatives, is single-payer healthcare inevitable? Heads up, Save Jerseyans: During a press availability on Wednesday, N.J. Democrat nominee for governor Phil Murphy (D-Goldman Sachs) said “it has to be on the list… I’d like to see Medicare for all.” Watch: – His opponent pounced. “Today, Phil Murphy doubled […]
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The Senate’s Republican leadership released a revised health care bill Thursday afternoon, a move welcomed by House conservatives even as they were reluctant to comment before digesting it. “We are going to withhold judgment,” Mark Meadows, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said earlier in the day during the monthly Conversations With Conservatives event on […]
The last time Trenton took excess funds from a fund that wasn’t theirs was when we took from the pension system. It led us to the current pension crisis and is a major cause of our deficit. Now a plan to direct some of the state’s lottery revenue to fund those pensions is being held hostage […]
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TRENTON — Late June is usually the time the state Senate, the Assembly and the governor are negotiating the terms of the state budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. Not this year. About two weeks ago, Gov. Chris Christie injected his dispute with the state’s largest insurance provider, Horizon Blue Cross […]
Meet Charlie Gard. He’s a 10-month-old baby from London who was born with infantile onset encephalomyopathy mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDDS). Thanks to the British state, it’s possible he’ll be dead by the time you finish reading this. That isn’t me adopting the scare tactics of those 1990s-era cigarette commercials: Charlie really is scheduled to […]
Jennifer Beck (R-11) doesn’t regret her Thursday vote in the Senate, Save Jerseyans, and she doubled down as a state shutdown inched closer on Friday afternoon. “Any Horizon policy holder that has overpaid in premiums should get that money back,” Beck declared.” It is unconscionable for the State to swoop in and take their hard-earned […]
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Why is this year’s pitched budget battle tied to the #HorizonHeist bill? A national watchdog group weighed in this week, alleging a possible connection between Governor Chris Christie deeply unpopular move to seize Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield’s limited reserves and the head of New Jersey’s most powerful Democrat political machine: Sources with firsthand knowledge of the situation […]
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Credit: NJTV News Online Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto The controversial proposal to reform Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield continues to bedevil a deal on New Jersey’s 2018 budget, even as some Democratic leaders framed the measure as a temporary fix they could undo after it is used to secure the governor’s support for the annual […]
The Horizon heist hangs in the balance, Save Jerseyans, as legislators debate a state budget (and Chris Christie’s much-panned opioid funding scheme) ahead of a Friday deadline. On Wednesday, Save Jersey Blogger-in-Chief Matt Rooney spoke with Bill Spadea and the Fox29/My9 Chasing News Team to help break down the latest developments…. Watch: ___
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Obamacare has been, to put it mildly, burdensome for small businesses in New Jersey. Soon, the Senate will have a chance to do something about it. Year after year, when the National Federation of Independent Business surveys its members, they say their number one priority is healthcare, but the Affordable Care Act, better known as […]
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said Wednesday that he expects a health care vote the week after the July 4th recess. “The vote will occur the week after the Fourth of July when the Senate comes back in,” Mr. Price said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show.” But Mr. Price said in the meantime, […]
Steve Forbes, the famed Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media and a former Republican Presidential candidate, intends to make Chris Christie own his reckless plan to raid Horizon’s insurance reserves. He made the case in recent days on regional conservative radio outlets, comparing the Governor’s scheme to Venezuelan socialist economics. “He says he wants to use the […]
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Credit: Governor’s Office/Tim Larsen Gov. Chris Christie Gov. Chris Christie has not abandoned his controversial quest to secure hundreds of millions of dollars from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, New Jersey’s largest health insurer, to fund drug addiction programs and other healthcare needs. And negotiations with Democratic lawmakers – who have failed to embrace his […]
Governor Chris Christie is proposing his long-time friend Michele Brown to sit on the board of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Save Jerseyans. The Friday morning announcement comes shortly after Christie sought legislative support to seize the insurer’s emergency surplus to fund low-income residents’ drug addiction services. The move was almost universally panned […]
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