‘Taxpayer-Funded Drum Circles’: Biden-Era Policy Gives Native American Shamans Medicaid Dollars To Treat California Drug Addicts With Rituals, Dances

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‘Indigenous Knowledge’ pseudoscience continues to thrive in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Indigenous group dances in L.A. (Apu Gomes/Getty Images) The federal government’s Medicaid program is paying Native American shamans in California $826 a day to perform ancient rituals such as drum circles and spiritual dances to treat drug and alcohol addicts. The alternative treatments are

Americans With Health Insurance Still Worry About Paying for Care: Report

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Medical bills in Temple Hills, Md., on June 26, 2023. Jacquelyn Martin/File/AP Photo More than one in five adults of working age with commercial health insurance reported coverage denials for doctor-recommended services, either for themselves or a family member, in the past year, according to a major healthcare affordability survey released June 4. The survey,

Bessent Signals Bigger Boeing Sales to China Before Xi’s US Trip

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the Senate Committee on Appropriations in Washington on June 3, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times China could agree to purchase additional Boeing aircraft when Chinese leader Xi Jinping visits Washington in September, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday. Speaking during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the