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‘Seismic Shift’: Medicare to Reimburse Doctors for Diagnosing, Treating Vaccine Injuries

Medicare will reimburse doctors for the cost of diagnosing and treating suspected vaccine-related adverse effects, according to a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy announced last week and published today in the Federal Register.

Under the rule, CMS will introduce billing code G0576 to reimburse physicians and other eligible Medicare providers for every 15 minutes of qualifying work evaluating, diagnosing, treating or counseling patients with suspected vaccine-related adverse reactions.

The reimbursement payment will be in addition to what Medicare already pays for a standard office visit.

Doctors can qualify for reimbursement by documenting when the suspected adverse reaction occurred in relation to vaccination, evaluating other possible causes of the patient’s symptoms and maintaining supporting medical records.

A CMS spokesperson told The Defender that reimbursement would not depend on a final determination that a vaccine caused the reported symptoms.

“Physicians will not be paid based on whether a report is ultimately determined to be related to a vaccine, nor would reimbursement change the standard for evaluating those reports,” the spokesperson said.

CMS framed the new code as a way to support the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) initiative.

“Medicare should reward clinicians for keeping people healthy,” U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) referenced the initiative when it launched a federal Vaccine Injury Center. At the time, HHS officials said doctors would be reimbursed for time spent reporting suspected vaccine injuries to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

However, the final rule does not explicitly authorize or exclude reimbursement for submitting VAERS reports, leaving it unclear whether physicians can bill for time spent completing and submitting the reports.

CMS did not answer a follow-up request by press time seeking clarification on whether G0576 covers the time spent completing and submitting VAERS reports.

The code, which will also apply to telehealth visits, takes effect Jan. 1, 2027.

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Colorado Gave Free Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants – Now the Governor is Admitting It’s Not Sustainable

In the coming months, we are going to hear a lot of Democrats talking about ‘Medicare for all.’ This is one of their top issues. Bernie Sanders has been talking about it for years and the left thinks their moment has finally arrived.

Unfortunately for them, there are plenty of examples of why this doesn’t work and would actually be a disaster.

In Colorado, Governor Jared Polis was hailed by the left for offering ‘free’ healthcare to illegal immigrants back in 2022. He is now admitting that the program is unsustainable and is recommending hundreds of millions in cuts.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

Colorado Gov Moves To Gut Health Care Coverage for Illegal Immigrant Children Amid Spiraling Medicaid Costs

Colorado Democrats and immigration activists cheered after Gov. Jared Polis (D.) signed a signature 2022 health care law providing coverage to children and “pregnant persons” living in the United States illegally. Four years later, Polis, now a lame duck, is calling to gut the Cover All Coloradans program in his final budget proposal in an attempt to address the state’s spiraling Medicaid costs, and left-wing groups aren’t happy.

Polis released his budget on the eve of the midterm elections—one day after the legally mandated deadline to do so—and proposed $600 million in state Medicaid cuts. He called Medicaid’s growth “unsustainable” and told reporters it was on track to “crowd out everything else, including education.”

Buried in the proposal is a section calling to “replace Cover All Coloradans” by redirecting funds to a separate program, the Primary Care Fund, which offers financial assistance to low-income, uninsured residents for health care. Illegal immigrant children are eligible for that benefit but would lose the comprehensive insurance plan provided by Cover All Coloradans. A fact sheet notes that Polis aims “to end Cover All Coloradans coverage for children,” but “coverage for pregnant and postpartum adults would continue.”

Polis’s budget would strip some $10 million from Cover All Coloradans, with about half of that going to the Primary Care Fund.

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Follow The Nonprofit Money Behind Push For “Anti-Fascist Economics” Getting Boosted On Financial Times

The Financial Times gave a so-called “economist” a platform to rebrand democracy or democratic socialism with a spicy new term: “anti-fascist economics.”

Isabella Weber, director of the nonprofit Essential Economics gGmbH, sat down with FT’s Martin Sandbu to discuss anti-fascist economics.

Weber explained:

“So at its core, it argues that fascism finds a fertile ground when there is large-scale economic insecurity and high levels of corporate concentration and private power in the economy.

So an anti-fascist economics is one that puts a floor under people’s livelihoods and a ceiling on the concentration of private and corporate wealth.”

Let’s translate all that fancy academic talk:

  • “A floor under people’s livelihoods” suggests a safety net, minimum wages, or guaranteed access to essential services.
  • “A ceiling on the concentration of private and corporate wealth” may suggest progressive taxation, wealth taxes, or antitrust measures. A cap on personal wealth would be more radical but not out of the question.

Weber’s views go well beyond bolstering the West’s failing welfare state. She now wants big government to reshape the economy in how essentials are produced and supplied, including building public housing.

The question that emerges is: who exactly decides what counts as essential, what constitutes an acceptable profit, and when an emergency intervention ends?

Of course not the free market, but unelected left-wing bureaucrats and their friends whose economic understanding of the real world is limited and usually seen around the world with disastrous endings.

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Outrageous Welfare Fraud: Democrat Pennsylvania Councilman Allegedly Pocketed Nearly $7,000 in SNAP and Heating Aid While Falsely Claiming He Was Unemployed

A Democrat member of Uniontown, Pennsylvania’s City Council was arraigned Thursday on charges that he fraudulently obtained nearly $7,000 in taxpayer-funded food and heating assistance while employed and earning more than $166,000 over the same period.

Trace Thomas, 34, faces one count of fraudulently obtaining benefits after state investigators alleged he collected Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments and Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funds while repeatedly reporting himself as unemployed.

The Pennsylvania State Office of Inspector General alleges Thomas received $5,705 in SNAP benefits and another $1,000 through the heating assistance program after he was hired by Senior Life, a Pittsburgh-based health care company, in September 2023.

According to the criminal complaint, obtained by The Herald Standard, Thomas continued to report himself as unemployed on eight applications for the funds as late as August 2025.

Thomas also completed phone interviews with the county assistance office for SNAP benefits, during which he did not disclose employment or income.

More than a year after receiving his first paycheck from Senior Life, Thomas sent a letter to the county assistance office in September 2024 stating that he was unemployed and looking for a job.

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Senators Probing RFK Jr.’s Testimony on Samoa Trip

Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after The Associated Press and The Guardian published documents in August refuting his testimony.

The new inquiry is one of a vast array of investigations planned into the Trump administration after Democrats regained control of the House and Senate from Republicans in the midterm elections.

Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., said in a letter Wednesday to Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit group known for anti-vaccine activism that was formerly chaired by Kennedy, that they were starting an investigation.

The lawmakers asked the group for a broad range of documents related to Kennedy’s Samoa travel, his 2024 presidential campaign and his Senate confirmation process.

AP and Guardian reporting in August showed that while Kennedy repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that his visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines,” a letter he sent to the Samoan prime minister ahead of the trip on CHD letterhead showed otherwise. In the letter, Kennedy used the words vaccine or vaccination eight times.

The Department of Health and Human Services has maintained that the Samoa visit “was unrelated to vaccines.” In response to an AP inquiry in August, it said “any claim or insinuation based on these letters that Secretary Kennedy lied under oath or to Congress is not only false but outright defamatory.”

Wyden is expected to chair the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight into Kennedy’s health department, when Democrats retake Congress in January.

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Saudi Arabia Turns to Syria for Troops as Iran-Backed Houthis Fire Missiles and Drones at Riyadh

The Iran-backed Houthis said they fired missiles and drones at Riyadh on November 8 as Saudi Arabia sought troops from Syria’s new government. Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said falling shrapnel from an “attempted attack” caused minor damage to a Saudi Aramco administrative building in the King Abdullah Financial District. No casualties were reported.

The Houthis said they carried out “four qualitative military operations” that included ballistic and cruise missile launches. Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said Saudi air defenses destroyed two ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh and that coalition forces destroyed two launchers in Saada that were used in the attack.

The day before, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed six operations targeting Aramco facilities, Riyadh’s airport, and Saudi troops on both sides of the Saudi-Yemeni border. He said the Houthis were imposing “blockade for blockade” and “escalation for escalation.”

The Houthis seized Sanaa in 2014, and a Saudi-led coalition entered the war in 2015 to support Yemen’s government. A truce began in 2022. Fighting resumed in July 2026 after the Houthis allowed an Iranian plane to land in Sanaa, defying Saudi control of Yemen’s airspace.

The Houthis then declared a blockade of Saudi Arabia and began striking Saudi ships, territory, and oil facilities. In September, they seized territory along Yemen’s Red Sea coast near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. The Saudi front is part of the wider regional war that began in February when the United States and Israel attacked Iran. The United Nations says more than 1,600 people have been killed and more than 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed in July.

The State Department ordered non-emergency U.S. government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia, effective October 23. A November 3 U.S. Embassy alert cited Houthi attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure that caused civilian casualties. U.S. government employees are barred from traveling within 20 miles of the Yemen border.

In early October, a U.S. official told Reuters that Saudi Arabia had asked Syria to deploy forces against the Houthis. The request reportedly came up during Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Riyadh meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A Syrian diplomat said at the time that Syria “stands with Saudi Arabia in the face of Houthi attacks.”

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Betraying America’s Military and the Constitution They Swore To Defend

Donald Trump and his administration have done a grave disservice to America’s military.

By politicizing the military, sending service members into wars of questionable legality, attempting to use military forces against American citizens, and seeking to punish veterans who exercise their constitutional rights, the Trump administration has attempted to turn the U.S. military into its own guns-for-hire battalion.

This is not how you honor America’s military.

Pete Hegseth has done an even graver disservice to the men and women who serve.

Having called for a “warrior ethos” that celebrates aggression, lethality and an unquestioning commitment to warfighting, the self-styled Secretary of War has repeatedly demonstrated a troubling disregard for the constitutional safeguards meant to govern the military’s use of force.

Now, faced with eight articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), Hegseth has dismissed the effort as an act of “sabotage,” suggesting that holding military leaders accountable amounts to punishing the troops who carry out their orders.

Questioning the war makers is not an attack on the troops. It is one way of defending them.

The charges at the heart of Massie’s impeachment effort speak to an identity crisis under Hegseth’s leadership—one that pits the Founders’ vision of a military that exists to defend the Constitution and a constitutional form of government against a version of the military as a ruthless killing machine whose purpose is to invade, intimidate, and destroy the president’s enemies.

Three of Massie’s eight articles of impeachment accuse Hegseth of violating separate provisions of the War Powers Resolution by waging war against Iran without congressional authorization, continuing hostilities despite Congress’s direction to withdraw U.S. forces, and refusing to terminate military operations after the expiration of the law’s 60-day limit and potential 30-day withdrawal period.

The remaining five accuse Hegseth of disregarding laws meant to protect civilians during military operations; authorizing extrajudicial killings of suspected drug traffickers at sea; retaliating against Senator Mark Kelly for exercising his First Amendment rights; directing the military operation to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, without lawful authority; and waging an unauthorized military campaign in Yemen.

Hegseth wants to dismiss the impeachment effort as a disagreement over military policy, but this is about something far more fundamental than one man’s job or one administration’s military strategy.

It is about the constitutional balance of power.

Impeachment is not a criminal prosecution. It is one of the mechanisms the Founders provided for holding public officials accountable for serious abuses of power.

The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president, places the military under civilian authority, and binds those in power to the rule of law.

But those safeguards mean little when Congress refuses to challenge unauthorized wars, presidents treat military force as their private prerogative, and military leaders demand obedience without accountability.

Consider the human price of the war with Iran.

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UK Lawmaker Barred From Discussing Ethnic Replacement of White British People

A Reform UK member of the Welsh Parliament has been banned from speaking in the Senedd over comments he made acknowledging that Britons are on pace to become a minority in their own homeland as a result of mass migration.

Member of the Senedd (MS) for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party Joe Martin has been accused of spreading “discriminatory” and offensive” messages and was banned from speaking in the local home nation Welsh parliament until he apologises for his comments recognising the ethnic displacement of the native populations of Britain.

On Tuesday, Martin took to the floor of the Senedd in Cardiff and asked: “Can I have a statement from your government on the demographic replacement of white British people taking place in the UK? Because the scale of change has been breath-taking. Mass immigration and differing birth rates mean that, in just 37 years’ time, in 2063, we will be a minority in our own country.

“That change has already taken place in London, Birmingham, Leicester, Slough, Luton and Manchester, and I don’t want it to happen here,” he continued.

“Indeed, at every opportunity, the majority of the electorate have wanted less immigration so that their nation can be preserved. A nation is not an economic zone, it’s not a hotel, and neither is it a charity… It’s a family, which is capable of absorbing people of all races if done at a sensible rate, but not if it’s replaced altogether.”

This was apparently outside of the bounds of acceptable discourse for an elected official, selected by the Welsh people to represent their interests in their parlaiment, according to Presiding Officer Huw Irranca-Davies of the left-wing Labour and Co-operative Party.  Irranca-Davies described the comments as “unnecessarily provocative and deliberately offensive” and imposed a speaking ban on the Reform lawmaker until he issues an apology.

In response, Reform UK, the largest opposition party in the Welsh parliament, boycotted most of the proceedings on Wednesday in protest, with party boss Nigel Farage describing the move as “ridiculous and outrageous”.

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Follow The Money: Florida Subpoenas DSA Over Cuban, Chinese Cash Days After Socialist Election Sweep

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday issued an investigative subpoena to the Democratic Socialists of America, saying his office is examining whether DSA accepted contributions or support “from foreign sources of concern, including the regimes in Cuba and China,” and whether its fundraising from Florida donors has been “fully transparent and lawful.”

In a video announcing the probe, Uthmeier said the subpoena was issued under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and the state’s laws on the solicitation of funds. It covers “recent DSA delegations to Cuba, where national leaders and national political committee members met with Cuban government officials, as well as a delegation to China,” he said, along with travel fund solicitations that “sought tens of thousands of dollars to cover costs for those trips and related activities involving Florida chapters.”

Uthmeier’s office has not alleged that DSA actually took foreign money, and he said the subpoena “seeks the documents needed to determine compliance.” The law he is leaning on is SB 700, signed in May 2025, which bars charities and fundraisers soliciting in Florida from accepting contributions from people tied to “foreign countries of concern,” a list that includes Cuba and China. Knowing and willful violations carry criminal penalties, according to a Holland & Knight summary of the law. “We will not allow foreign adversaries to influence Florida through the back door of nonprofit fundraising,” Uthmeier said.

A national DSA spokesperson told the Florida Phoenix that the group is “aware of the situation” and has “no comment at this time.”

The subpoena landed a week after DSA-backed Democrat Ashley Herrmann ousted Republican incumbent Danny Alvarez in state House District 69 in Hillsborough County, which Creative Loafing called the first Democratic Socialist elected in Florida.

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What Are the Odds? Thomas Massie’s Far-Left Buddy Reportedly Sold His Nvidia Stock at the Perfect Time

California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna, a close ally of outgoing Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, magically managed to sell his shares of the technology firm Nvidia’s stock at the absolutely perfect time.

According to Trade With Congress, an account on the social media platform X operated by the financial tracking/subscription service Altoneer, Khanna sold his shares of Nvidia stock around Oct. 7, right before the company’s stock began a precipitous, ongoing decline into the abyss.

Well, well, well

Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia’s CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece

He’s a member of the following:

– Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
– Taiwan Caucus
– High Tech Caucus…

— Trade With Congress (@tradewithcong) November 11, 2026

While the stock’s initial decline was reportedly due to a combination of macroeconomic and AI infrastructure spending concerns, a major rush to the downside occurred after Nvidia co-founder and top official Jensen Huang was outed for having had an affair with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy.

As of Thursday, Nvidia’s stock decline was continuing unabated, thanks in part to Huang resigning in disgrace earlier that morning.

“NVIDIA Board of Directors announced today that Jensen Huang has resigned as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board, effective immediately,” the company announced in a news release.

As of that morning, Nvidia’s stock was hovering in the $150 to $160 range, down from the high of approximately $240 recorded around the time that Khanna sold his shares of the formerly highly coveted stock.

Ever since Trade With Congress and other X accounts began highlighting Khanna’s miraculously timed stock trade, critics have been rushing out of the woodwork to demand that he be investigated and prosecuted.

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