PAHO and CDRI Sign Agreement to Strengthen Health Infrastructure Resilience Against Disasters
07 Jul
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PAHO and CDRI Sign Agreement to Strengthen Health Infrastructure Resilience Against Disasters

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Washington D.C. July 3, 2025 – The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Amit Prothi, Director General of the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) to strengthen cooperation in developing safer and more resilient health systems against climate change and natural disasters. The agreement marks the beginning of a strategic collaboration that includes capacity building, technical assistance, knowledge exchange, and joint advocacy for safe and resilient health infrastructure policies. “I am honored to strengthen collaboration between PAHO and CDRI,” Dr. Barbosa said, highlighting the important lessons learned in the region, particularly from the Smart Hospitals Initiative. “Together, we’ll advance climate-smart, disaster-resilient health infrastructure across the Americas.” Welcoming the collaboration, the Director-General of CDRI underscored the importance that health infrastructures remain operational during disasters. “PAHO’s experience in...
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GOP Governors Mum as Congress Prepares To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States
03 Jul
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GOP Governors Mum as Congress Prepares To Slash Medicaid Spending for Their States

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The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and President Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors. Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets. Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation’s children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don’t deserve government assistance, and they have long...
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03 Jul
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To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care

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President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would make some of the most sweeping changes in health policy in years, largely affecting Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans — with reverberations felt throughout the health care system. With only a few exceptions, the budget reconciliation process — which allows the political party in control to pass a bill with only 51 votes in the Senate, rather than the usual 60 — is how nearly every major piece of health legislation has passed Congress since the 1980s. But using reconciliation to constrict rather than expand health coverage, as the GOP is attempting now? That is unusual. One of the best-known programs born via reconciliation is the “COBRA” health insurance continuation, which allows people who leave jobs with employer-provided insurance to keep it for a time, as long...
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