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AFGHS co-signatory countries ask health care users to help fill the financing gap

Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV on antiretrovirals could be targeted for user fees or community health insurance schemes requiring modest premium payments, according to the April 2026 version of the country’s America First Global Health Strategy implementation narrative.1 As part of the “sustainable financing for the private not for profit sector” strategy, 491 facilities will be targeted for a phased introduction of user fees and scale up of community health insurance programs.2 In the Ugandan context, PNFP facilities include faith-based hospitals and other health facilities, US missionary organizations and centers of excellence—services that are often co-located at government facilities but run with additional financial and technical resources. 402,000 people—or about 28 percent of the total Ugandan adult PLHIV population on treatment—get ART from the private not for profit sector. The selected facilities provide the majority of ART and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services. The plan doesn’t give the total number of clients served by the 491 facilities, so it is not possible to give a precise number. But the majority of 402,000 is a figure in the hundreds of thousands—hence the estimate I’m using.3 The April draft of the Ugandan implementation plan narrative is the only one I’ve been able to review. But the government of Uganda is not alone in turning to health care users to help fill the financing gaps caused by the abrupt withdrawal of US funds. In July 2025, the Government of Liberia introduced user fees for previously free services including “registration, accommodation, patient feeding, hospitalization, and a wide range of surgical and diagnostic procedures.”4 Earlier that year, Liberia rolled out a revolving drug fund designed to stabilize drug supplies by “allowing patients to pay a small fee for standardized, quality medications,” according to a Ministry of Health press release.5 (Both of these approaches had been proposed in the National Health Policy 2022-2031; media coverage explicitly connects the launch with the US foreign aid cuts.) The health financing strategies proposed by Uganda and established in Liberia are qualitatively different from user fees officially adopted by specific health facilities to cover funding shortfalls caused by the new US approach.6 The latter is a stopgap, adhoc change. The former is a national governmental adoption of policies that pass costs on to health care users, despite evidence that such approaches can exacerbate inequities and leave deficits unfilled. Two countries does not make a pattern, but they do point to urgent questions: Have other countries, including Liberia, included user fees or community health insurance schemes in their implementation plans? If so, do any of these narratives have what Uganda’s lacks: a fall-back plan in place in case these strategies for sustainable health systems fail to deliver—as they have before? I wonder if you think about it Subscribe Predictable pitfalls Both community-based health insurance and user fees are as old as the hills. And after decades of people climbing up these hills, duking it out, climbing back down—neither strategy has shown the results the Ugandan implementation plan is counting on. This is, in fact, a hill some folks are willing to die on. (You knew I’d get there, right?) In November 2025, an African-led team of health system experts published a paper directed at low- and middle income country governments trying to figure out how to create self-sustaining health systems. The money wasn’t coming back. It had been more than nine months since the season of freezing, waivering and wood-chippering; two months since AFGHS tumbled into the world touting co-financing requirements and reductions in future US government health aid. Governments were looking for strategies for sustainable, self-financed health systems, the authors wrote. For countries considering user fees and community health insurance to fill the financing gaps, they had a simple message: Don’t. On user fees, the paper states: “Reliance on user fees is ultimately a regressive and inequitable approach. It places a disproportionate burden on the poor and undermines health system goals of equity and financial protection. […] There is overwhelming evidence that user fees mobilise very limited resources for the public health sector, making it an inefficient mechanism for revenue mobilisation.” On community health insurance: “Attempting to shift the burden of funding previously donor-funded services, such as HIV care and management, and TB treatment, onto contributory schemes would exacerbate their fragility and fail to protect the population.”7 The WHO says that community-based health insurance “cannot be expected to provide a major source of funding or coverage,” and noted that most schemes offer only moderate benefit to individuals paying into them, and exclude the poorest segment of the population.8 And yet, the US-Ugandan implementation plan says that community health insurance is “the central pillar of this [PNFP] sustainability strategy” and that this approach that will generate “pre-paid pooled funding at facility and community level [that] improves financial risk protection for households, reduces catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure, and generates structured, transparent revenue streams that can progressively absorb recurrent costs including health worker salaries.” Unfortunately, Uganda’s own history suggests the pillar might not be able to bear this weight. Ugandans Have Been to this Rodeo Before—and Some Want Their Money Back Uganda introduced its first community health insurance scheme in 1996 with support from international donors.9 Thirty years later, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3 percent of the population is covered by CHI; just over 1 percent has any kind of health insurance.10 User fees were universally introduced in 1993 as a condition of a World Bank loan.11 They were abandoned in 2001, and in 2004—the year I moved to Uganda to watch the free HIV program get underway—a definitive study found that the fees did not improve health systems and outcomes.12 In 2004, most clinics and hospitals had ‘free’ and ‘fee for service’ options for getting care.13 The fee for service, or “cash and carry” programs had often been established in the years prior to PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. People who could afford to paid for the drugs, often at facilities in the private-not-for-profit (PNFP) sector. When free drugs arrived, some people who’d been paying kept on doing so, perhaps because of shorter wait times, greater confidentiality, convenience or other factors. But in the year that I spent visiting the same clinics around the country week after week—including a “center of excellence” that maintained separate days for cash and carry clients and those accessing free ARVs—lots of people who had been paying tried to switch to the free option. They’d paid because they had no other choice. They’d sold pieces of family land, begged family members for loans, bought pills by the week, and sometimes by the day. Or they were just cash-strapped, like most of us, and wanted the funds for other things. 14 Twenty-two years later, this hasn’t changed. Ugandans pay out of pocket for 30-40 percent of their health care costs, leading one paper to declare that “falling ill is more than a health crisis. It is a financial emergency.”15 One recent study found that up to 48.5 percent of households dealing with tuberculosis sold something, took out a loan or dug into savings to defray the costs of TB care—which is supposed to be universally free.16 The Ugandan implementation plan does anticipate challenges. It proposes a phased approach, with 187 facilities introducing user contribution systems in Year 1, 152 in Year 2, and 153 in Year 3. Willingness to pay and feasibility studies will precede roll out; fees will be tiered by region, and a waiver system is proposed to ensure that no one has to pay who is unable to. Moreover, the plan provides for quarterly reviews of epidemiological data to “ensure that user contributions do not compromise epidemic control gains, ART continuity for the client cohort, TB case management, or PMTCT services.” Alt text: A screenshot of a table included in the implementation plan narrative that is the subject of this stack. It’s got a fetching pink bar at the top. It uses the abbreviation “CHI” which is Community Health Insurance, and FBO which is Faith Based Organizations, and it details the number of facilities that will implement user fees with waivers and community health insurance schemes over the five years of the agreement. As I said in the footnote, this is a super interesting document with a lot of other rich material. Tell me what you see—and what you would have focused on. And if you’ve seen something like this, or anything else that strikes you, in another implementation plan, tell me that too. You can use the Substack message platform or try me on Signal at @endaplague_again.25 (because @mercoonfan was, weirdly, taken). But the plan doesn’t fully explain what will happen if this approach doesn’t work out. Yes, progress will be monitored, and corrective action triggered. However, there is no specified funding replacement if premium and fee revenue prove inadequate. Instead, the authors write, “Currently, COEs serve a total client cohort of over 180,000 across 28 facilities. In the initial years, the U.S. Government (USG) will provide financial support for clients; over time, user fees generated by COEs will become the primary source of funding for sustaining their services.” Failure does not really seem to be an option. Health insurance schemes are more acceptable to the Ugandan population than user fees. Members of Parliament and civil society traveled to Ethiopia to see how that country’s scheme worked. In a follow up report, a veteran civil society group recommended allowing the “health insurance ecosystem to grow organically and [to] keep reviewing the law and regulations as this growth takes root.”17 One study found that more than three-quarters of Ugandans were willing to join a health insurance program.18 However, coverage of community-based health insurance is minimal, as is coverage of any kind of insurance—including private plans.19 A national health insurance scheme bill has been stalled for several years and presently sits with President Yoweri Museveni.20 Community-based health insurance scheme that do exist are expanding in number, but losing enrollees. Between 2022 and 2026, the number of community-based health financing schemes across the country increased by 42 percent, while the number of people enrolled decreased by nearly 11 percent.21 None of this means that community-based health insurance should not happen in Uganda—or that people do not want insurance. It doesn’t even mean that user fees and waivers won’t ever work. But there is highly relevant evidence from Uganda and the surrounding region that it is quite optimistic to describe community health insurance and user fees as central supports for sustainable financing in any sector of the health system. And now for the best-case scenario In the best-case scenario22, the Ugandan approach does exactly what it sets out to do, and so does the Liberian fee structure and revolving pharmacy fund—though I’ve not confirmed that these are in the MoU. In one best-case scenario, Uganda is an outlier, and user fees and community health insurance are not recurrent pillars of self-sustaining financing in other countries’ implementation plans. In another best-case scenario, all countries that include these strategies enjoy success beyond anyone’s evidence-informed wildest dreams: reliable funding generated by health care users fees, great health care outcomes for everyone, no exacerbation of inequities, no crippling household debt. No sold land, repurposed school tuition or high-interest loans. In the best-case scenario, not one of the hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals from 491 PNFP facilities misses a refill or leaves care because of user fees or community health insurance premiums. This is the best-case scenario for these people for their own health, and for their families. It is also the best-case scenario if Uganda wants to stay on the path to eliminating HIV as a public health threat. According to the country’s most recent data, 96.5 percent of people living with HIV on antiretrovirals are virologically suppressed. Epidemic control depends ensuring that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of those individuals are on ART, and 95% of those individuals are virologically suppressed. Uganda is still struggling with the first “95"—a frankly abysmal 85.3 percent. If HIV epidemic control and the attendant prevention of new infections, avoidable suffering and premature death matter, the country cannot afford to lose any clients who are currently in care.23 As I write this a couple hours before the polls close for the US elections in the city I live in, I say with soul-deep sincerity: I am rooting for the best-case scenario. I think it’s safe to say that we all are.24 I think it’s also safe to say that if the US and co-signatory governments have inked plans that lead to successful expansion of community health insurance and strategic use of user fees, we all would like to know, now, so that we don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate when success happens. The implementation plan narratives have to enter the public domain. They are the fullest expression of a strategy co-created by two governments. There are assumptions and details that people living in the US and co-signatory countries need to understand that are not available in the MoUs or, to date, in the Congressional Notifications. Some of these details can help other countries that are, as I write this, still working on implementation plans. Others, like a solid count of how many other countries have plans for expanding user fees or health insurance, are important for regional and global health architecture reform initiatives. No matter how this election night turns out, there will be a slew of new Congressional member orientations, briefings and talking points papers in the next few months. Release of implementation narratives should be a bullet point in every context that AFGHS is discussed. These documents can be redacted so that procurement sensitive information isn’t disclosed. There is much more historical precedent for sharing such documents than there is for relying on user fees to fill health financing gaps. Let’s look at the information together so we can hope for the best and prepare for, you know, the other thing. Alt text: A substack first: a bicep selfie! It’s my arm - peachy-white skin, black shirt (flannel, notch neck, too hot for this appallingly balmy November weather, if you’re wondering) and a sticker that says I VOTED 2026. Beige letters on red for I voted. Beige on blue for 2026. You bet I did.25 In your wildest dreams. Subscribe 1 This is a really, really rich 95 page document. There are fascinating ideas and detailed plans in it. It is all worth reading AND I have, in this post, highlighted an instance of content that could pose challenges and certainly posits success of strategies that haven’t worked before. I would love to hear what readers’ see that’s interesting and should be lifted up as something to check for in other implementation plans. I will also shortly be adding a static page to the substack site where implementation plan documents will live. I will put the url into this footnote and it will also be there on emilybass.substack.com by the end of the week. Uganda Implementation Narrative Section 4 April 22 2026 Draft 1.51MB ∙ PDF file Download Download 2 User fees are costs charged for visits, labs, medicines or other health services, usually at the time they are provided. Community health insurance, or community-based health insurance, is what the World Health Organization calls “micro insurance,” which is health insurance targeted at low-income people. 3 As usual (by which I mean always), please prove me wrong. 4 https://smartnewsliberia.com/liberias-ministry-of-health-announces-2025-hospital-service-fees-for-public-facilities/?utm 5 https://moh.gov.lr/news/2025/grand-cape-mount-leaders-residents-embrace-new-community-pharmacy-program/?utm 6 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/hiv-usaid-pepfar-africa-foreign-aid-cuts-mission-hospitals/?utm 7 https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/11/e021270 8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/community-based-health-insurance-CBHI 9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2827475/ 10 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC527704/ 12 Same citation as the footnote 2 - the article is called “Learning from failed health care reform in Uganda.” To which I say: If only. If. Only. 13 There is a whole taxonomy of user fees to be aware of, if not commit to memory. Out of pocket costs are everything that someone pays for themselves. In this Stack, user fees are planned and policy-supported out of pocket costs. There are also out of pocket costs that people pay to buy drugs or receive tests or health care assessments that would be free if the drugs were on the shelves, or the machines or kits were available, or the staff were on site. A user fee is usually designed to be modest, pegged to willingness to pay, and may be waiveable at the point of care for anyone who is unable to do so. The costs for things that would otherwise be free are whatever the market will bear and people either have to pay them or go without. Out of pocket costs for services and stuff that aren’t available in public facilities are different again from bribes or unofficial fees that some health workers may impose, even though most are indefatigable, tireless and tired, and devoted to their clients. 14 For the record—which really is these footnotes—I would give a whole stack of fridge magnets for a systematic analysis of the economic and social impact of the Mass Unemployment Event in AFGHS countries among the very people who used to be able to afford and cover user fees, both for themselves and vast family networks. Locally employed USAID technical staff, house cleaners, caregivers, drivers and technicians were financial anchors for cousins, friends, friends’ children, friends’ childrens’ cousins, teachers, pastors, neighbors and so many other kinds of kin. Aid recipients lost direct funding; many other people who had not been aid recipients, but parts of the elaborate care webs that function as safety nets for so many people, lost crucial support too. And that’s even before we get to the people who worked at the hotels and restaurants and bars where people employed by the US and its implementing partners used to spend disposable income. Those businesses have lost revenue; those folks have lost jobs. It will be some time coming—and someone will have to fund this work—but I do hope it happens. And I hope, as usual, to be proven wrong. 15 https://eprcug.org/blog/how-out-of-pocket-healthcare-costs-keep-driving-ugandans-into-poverty/ 16 Another straight-to-the-point journal article title. Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938411 17 https://www.cehurd.org/download/technical-policy-brief-on-community-health-insurance-scheme/?wpdmdl=13661&refresh=6ae9122f5d4ed1793659439 18 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10125197/ 19 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 20 https://ugandapost.news/uganda-to-make-health-insurance-mandatory-by-2026/ 21 https://shu.org.ug/download/235 22 With a nod, tip of the stack hat, and wag of the Mercoon tail to a deeply valued reader who told me that I have a tendency to speculate about the worst-case scenarios a little too much of the time. 23 https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/10/uphia-2025-shows-ugandas-hiv-status-awareness-gap-despite-strong-treatment-outcomes/ As you’ll see in the next footnote, I’ve already written a subSubstack on another topic, so I will be brief with regard to the study referenced in this article. The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment, or UPHIA, will never happen in this way again. For more than a decade, PHIAs have been supported by the US government as a way to generate accurate estimates of country progress on key HIV indicators. They are a holdover from the PEPFAR program that was laser focused on ensuring US taxpayer dollars subsidized progress in pandemic control. There may be other population-level surveys and the data may even be publicly released, as the entire set of FY2026 MER data have not. But PHIAs will never happen again. If you’re wondering whether the estimates of HIV progress at country level might get less reliable….you’re not alone. 24 Ooh baby, I hate “we” in almost all forms. But sometimes I go there, when I am looking for company, which I am. Because this Stack moves into the somewhat-uncharted territory of assessing what the implementation plan narratives may suggest about co-signatory countries’ roles and responsibilities to the people living within their borders. The MoUs, specimen and data sharing agreements were templates. Countries’ answers fit into pre-specified questions that did not include, “how are you going to fill financing gaps and stabilize your health system as this plan unfolds?” In contrast, the implementation narratives are open form—the product of co-creation between the two governments. Co-creation can mean lots of things, but nothing leads me to believe that implementation plans are ghost-written by the US government, or that contents were imposed by the US counterparts. Instead, I think the parts of the plans that read like country government initiatives are endorsed, if not initiated by, those governments. For instance, the Ugandan implementation plan narrative describes plans for revenue-generation through fees charged for equipment calibration, repair and maintenance provided through Uganda’s National Equipment Calibration Laboratory, and laboratory accreditation through the Uganda National Accreditation Service (UGANAS), targeting private sector, PNFP, research and academic clients. That’s super specific and also quite ambitious. It doesn’t read like an American idea. There’s also a provision for solar panels, and other stuff that feels country owned and driven. This is where it gets interesting. If co-creation is the case, then both the US and co-signatory governments are accountable for the contents and the outcomes. Most discourse about AFGHS to date has focused on the decisions that America has made, or demanded that other countries make. The AFGHS architects have monopolized the hot seat. As they should, in so many ways. America absolutely created the conditions under which countries needed to come up with health financing strategies to fill unanticipated, catastrophic funding gaps. And with not-too-long a lens, we can look back and see that America is also on the hook for its role in the Bretton Woods institutions that made user fees and health system fiscal austerity conditions of loans during the era of structural adjustment. But in the here and now, it is not at all clear to me that the US is requiring Uganda or any other country to implement specific approaches to sustainable financing. Instead, it is as the authors of that paper up in footnote 6 suggest: African governments have agency. As implementation plans roll out—whether or not the narratives are shared—it will be important to understand what this agency looks like and what it means for people, including the poorest of the poor. And it will be important to figure out how to talk about it safely, respectfully and critically in places other than the literal and metaphorical footnotes. 25 This week’s song is “Once upon a time” by the Moody Blues. (I know, this is gonna be a weird, largely banger-free end of 2026 playlist. HMU with requests.) AND please do watch the video and appreciate the truly amazing opening sequence—a drum kit wasteland, a coupla plastic bags, a bit of sand. Sort of like the hill where fiscal austerity policies that put costs on health care users might go to perish. But then there’s a lady with amazing hair. It’s worth it.

Nov 3 • 11:57 PM EST • Health • emilysbass.substack.com

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Oct 31 • 1:23 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 30 • 11:50 AM EDT • Sports • centredaily.com

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Oct 30 • 11:24 AM EDT • Sports • espn.com

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Oct 30 • 11:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 30 • 10:51 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 30 • 10:32 AM EDT • Sports • espn.com

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Oct 29 • 4:51 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

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Oct 29 • 9:08 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

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Oct 26 • 4:51 PM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com

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Oct 25 • 6:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 20 • 12:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • traverseticker.com

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Oct 14 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com

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Oct 13 • 10:10 AM EDT • Health • newswise.com

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Oct 13 • 9:30 AM EDT • Science • source.washu.edu

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Oct 12 • 4:37 PM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org

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Oct 6 • 2:43 PM EDT • Health • news.stthomas.edu

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Oct 6 • 2:43 PM EDT • Science • news.stthomas.edu

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Oct 6 • 2:12 PM EDT • Health • fortworthreport.org

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Oct 5 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net

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Oct 4 • 2:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Oct 2 • 6:56 PM EDT • Business • swlaw.com

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Oct 2 • 4:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 30 • 8:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • unionleader.com

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Sep 29 • 6:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 28 • 8:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Sep 27 • 7:54 AM EDT • Politics • ksat.com

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Sep 27 • 7:54 AM EDT • Politics • clickorlando.com

Supreme Court vote shadows Maine Sen. Susan Collins in her first bid after abortion rights decision

As Maine Republican Susan Collins seeks a sixth Senate term, some voters are bringing up her 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.

Sep 27 • 7:54 AM EDT • Politics • clickondetroit.com

Supreme Court vote shadows Maine Sen. Susan Collins in her first bid after abortion rights decision

As Maine Republican Susan Collins seeks a sixth Senate term, some voters are bringing up her 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.

Sep 27 • 7:54 AM EDT • Politics • click2houston.com

Supreme Court vote shadows Maine Sen. Susan Collins in her first bid after abortion rights decision

As Maine Republican Susan Collins seeks a sixth Senate term, some voters are bringing up her 2018 vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice.

Sep 27 • 7:54 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com

Guthrie talks data center costs, health care during Owensboro business visit

Congressman Brett Guthrie toured Custom Audio-Video during a Friday visit to Owensboro, then spoke with Owensboro Times about congressional efforts addressing data center electricity costs, Medicare physician payments, and cybersecurity at rural hospitals.

Sep 26 • 1:15 AM EDT • Health • owensborotimes.com

Guthrie talks data center costs, health care during Owensboro business visit

Congressman Brett Guthrie toured Custom Audio-Video during a Friday visit to Owensboro, then spoke with Owensboro Times about congressional efforts addressing data center electricity costs, Medicare physician payments, and cybersecurity at rural hospitals.

Sep 26 • 1:15 AM EDT • Business • owensborotimes.com

UConn Football Reportedly Trying to Join Conference it Left Behind

Brett McMurphy of On3 says that UConn is looking to change its football footprint.

Sep 25 • 8:39 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Science teacher in Searcy takes lesson to the skies

Brett Baker was in his second year teaching as an 8th-grade science teacher at Ahlf Junior High School in Searcy when he decided to demonstrate gravity to his students by going skydiving.

Sep 22 • 7:05 PM EDT • Science • kark.com

Vikings Work Out Three Punters, Sign Familiar Name

The Minnesota Vikings brought in a few punters to work out this week at TCO Performance Center after Brett Thorson's hamstring injury.

Sep 22 • 4:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Former US Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, a ‘workhorse’ who shaped water policy, dies at 84

Former US Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the US West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died. He was 84.

Sep 17 • 12:40 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

‘Spoilers’ happen in Oregon. Will this year’s race for governor join the list?

Pacific Green candidate Brett Smith could siphon key votes from Gov. Tina Kotek in a tight Oregon governor rematch against Republican Christine Drazan.

Sep 16 • 9:57 AM EDT • Politics • klcc.org

Dexter succeeds Gray as CBRE's Charlotte market leader

Denise Dexter has jumped from JLL to join rival CBRE as senior managing director and Charlotte market leader. She succeeds Brett Gray, who has relocated to Atlanta as executive managing director, while retaining oversight of the Carolinas. Dexter will oversee day-to-day operations in Charlotte including leasing, sales, valuations and debt and structured finance. She will […]

Sep 15 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • businessnc.com

How Recent Roster Move Impacts Toronto Blue Jays' Brett Bateman

The rookie seemed to get a vote of confidence from the organization on Friday afternoon.

Sep 12 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

In Rhode Island, new political leaders emerge as the old guard is swept out

Helena Foulkes won every city and town in Rhode Island’s Democratic primary for governor, and Democratic Socialist David Morales unseated Providence Mayor Brett Smiley

Sep 10 • 10:35 AM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com

Democratic socialist wins primary for mayor of Providence, Rhode Island

David Morales, a state lawmaker backed by the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated incumbent Mayor Brett P. Smiley.

Sep 10 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Pro-Israel Providence Mayor Brett Smiley loses to progressive challenger

The winner, democratic socialist David Morales, supports a divestment measure that will be on the ballot in November.

Sep 10 • 7:09 AM EDT • Politics • jta.org

Rhode Island could see a political wipeout next week

If Governor Dan McKee, Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos, and Mayor Brett Smiley all were to fall, it would amount to an unprecedented upending of Rhode Island’s political establishment, and a massive rebuke that could signal a significant shift in the state’s political landscape.

Sep 9 • 7:53 PM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com

Concern Mounts Over Brett Favre’s Health After Packers Legend’s Recent Video

When Brett Favre’s name pops up, fans are teleported back to when he led the Green Bay Packers to a 9-7 record in 1992. How rare was it at that time? Well, only the team’s second winning season in ten years.

Sep 6 • 10:25 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com

That Was Less Than Fun, Jays Lose

Jays 1 Royals 6 This one, well, it was a great game to watch. Right from the first inning. Brett Bateman was hit by a pitch to start the game, but Nathan Lukes hit into a double play, and Vladimir Guerrero grounded out. And the bottom of the inning went single (roller down the first […]

Sep 6 • 5:26 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Jays Beat Royals

Blue Jays 4 Royals 3 The Jays are above .500 and own the last Wild Card spot. After the first inning, I thought this was going to be a high scoring game. The Jays got two in the first (it should have been more). Brett Bateman started the game with a single, but was quickly […]

Sep 5 • 10:23 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Guthrie, Oz promote rural health funding in Glasgow visit

GLASGOW, Ky. — U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz visited T.J. Health Pavilion in Glasgow on Friday to meet with

Sep 5 • 3:08 PM EDT • Health • kentuckytoday.com

Guthrie, Oz promote rural health funding in Glasgow visit

GLASGOW — U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz visited T.J. Health Pavilion in Glasgow on Friday morning to meet with […]

Sep 4 • 3:11 PM EDT • Health • bgdailynews.com

Friday BP: Giants claim Brett Harris off of waivers

Keaton Winn was transferred to the 60-Day IL.

Sep 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Brett Bateman Continues to Spark Toronto Blue Jays Offense

The Blue Jays beat the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday afternoon to move within 0.5 games of the third and final wild card spot.

Sep 3 • 10:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Thursday Jays Notes

There isn’t much for Jays news this morning. The starters against the Royals: And, our weekly Anthony Santander rumour: Today’s lineups: Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS GUARDIANS Brett Bateman – CF Steven Kwan – CF Nathan Lukes – RF Chase DeLauter – RF Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Jose Ramirez – DH Jesus Sanchez – LF Jo […]

Sep 3 • 12:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Rhode Island could see a political wipeout next week

If Governor Dan McKee, Lieutenant Governor Sabina Matos, and Mayor Brett Smiley all were to fall, it would amount to an unprecedented upending of Rhode Island’s political establishment, and a massive rebuke that could signal a significant shift in the state’s political landscape.

Sep 2 • 5:55 AM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com

Only Brett Eskildsen Until Penn State Football

Can you feel it?

Sep 1 • 9:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Red Wings GM Search Gets Several Concrete Names

Elliotte Friedman revealed several names connected to the Red Wings GM search, including Brett Peterson, Jeff Kealty and Jeff Greenberg.

Aug 25 • 10:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘This is obviously a very, very lucrative business for them’: Somali pirates are back—the Iran war is keeping the US too busy to stop them

Brett Erickson, a managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, says Somali pirates have a lower risk of American retaliation because of resources in the Middle East.

Aug 25 • 12:46 PM EDT • Business • fortune.com

Planned Parenthood to spend more than $600,000 against Susan Collins in Maine

The ad buy, which will focus on the senator’s vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, is the largest investment from Planned Parenthood Votes in any state this cycle.

Aug 17 • 3:40 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Tigers' Brett Callahan's spark fizzles during White Sox weekend sweep

Detroit's rookie became the third MLB player since 1988 to triple on the first pitch of his first at-bat.

Aug 16 • 11:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Detroit Tigers Promote Brett Callahan, DFA Trei Cruz

The Tigers have rewarded one of their fastest-rising prospects with his first trip to the major leagues.

Aug 16 • 10:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Blue Jays beat Boston 5-3, hand Red Sox 4th straight loss

Ernie Clement drove in the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning, Brett Bateman had two RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3.

Aug 12 • 8:33 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

Blue Jays' Brett Bateman: Making major-league debut Friday

Blue Jays' Brett Bateman: Making major-league debut Friday

Aug 7 • 5:54 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

PhillyGoat lets you wear home team pride for all Philly sports

PhillyGoat is an apparel brand that pays homage to the founders' belief that the city of Philadelphia is the 'greatest of all time'. Brothers Ryan, Brett, and Patrick Cassidy were born in Philly and raised in Delco, and share a lifelong love of sports.

Aug 7 • 1:27 PM EDT • Sports • 6abc.com

Portillo’s is cutting HQ staff by 18%

“While never an easy decision, it is imperative that we examine areas of the business where we can operate more efficiently and ensure our resources and future investments are directed at the right priorities,” CEO Brett Patterson said in a statement.

Aug 6 • 9:29 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

Kevin Gausman Reacts to Joining Cubs After Blue Jays Trade

Newly acquired Chicago Cubs starting pitcher Kevin Gausman made his first comments for the Cubs since his trade from the Toronto Blue Jays.The Cubs traded two prospects, outfielder Brett Bateman and infielder Ty Southisen, for the veteran SP Gausman, who is in the final season of his five-year, $110 million contract.With Chicago primed for a […] The post Kevin Gausman Reacts to Joining Cubs After Blue Jays Trade appeared first on HEAVY.

Aug 6 • 2:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Jorge Elorza to endorse David Morales for Providence mayor

Incumbent Mayor Brett Smiley served as one of Elorza’s top aids during his first term. This will be the second time Elorza has endorsed a candidate over his former ally.

Aug 3 • 7:53 AM EDT • Politics • bostonglobe.com

Bullpen Effort Falls Short as Angels Drop Fifth Straight

A strong performance from Brett Kerry and the Los Angeles Angels’ bullpen wasn’t enough to overcome the Milwaukee Brewers in a 3-1 defeat.

Aug 2 • 12:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.

Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.

Aug 1 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Ex-Trump health official shocked by Fauci’s ‘unabashed narcissism’ from diaries

A former Trump health official on Tuesday slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci over his recently-released journal entries. “I’d like to see honesty and transparency and I’d like Tony to come clean…

Jul 28 • 9:39 PM EDT • Health • thehill.com

Jason Sudeikis returns as ‘Ted Lasso’ gears up for season 4: Watch the trailer

Apple TV dropped the ‘Ted Lasso’ season 4 trailer days ahead of its premiere early next month, showing glimpses of Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, and more.

Jul 28 • 9:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google

Claude users are creating public share links, but probably don't realize that means their chats are now ending up in Google searches where anyone can dig through them.

Jul 27 • 9:48 AM EDT • Technology • 404media.co

Salvador Perez tops George Brett as Royals' home run king

Jul 25 • 3:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Committee led by Rep. Brett Guthrie advances Ratepayer Protection Act

Supporters say the bill would ensure data centers pay for the utility upgrades needed to support them, instead of passing costs to ratepayers.

Jul 22 • 5:36 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com

Smiley accuses council of using residents as ‘political pawns’ over rent relief delay

Mayor Brett Smiley and some of the Providence City Council continue to disagree about how emergency rent relief should be rolled out.

Jul 15 • 4:42 PM EDT • Politics • wpri.com

House passes bill to make daylight saving time permanent

Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Bowling Green, is among those backing a bill to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide.

Jul 14 • 7:41 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com

Big 12 commissioner declines to address Sorsby gambling saga

The first thing Brett Yormark was asked about after his opening remarks at Big 12 football media days was the Brendan Sorsby gambling saga.

Jul 7 • 4:21 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com

Yormark says Protect College Sports Act is about ‘progress over perfection’

While not a perfect solution, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said Tuesday he supports the Protect College Sports Act that is currently working its way through the U.S. Senate. Speaking on day on…

Jul 7 • 3:41 PM EDT • Sports • wboy.com

Trump's 'hero' justice offers roadmap after Supreme Court rejects birthright order

Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence outlines how Congress could legislatively restrict birthright citizenship, sparking immediate Republican action.

Jul 2 • 3:47 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Rangers trade Brett Berard to Canadiens for William Trudeau: Sources

The deal marked the first trade between Rangers team president Chris Drury and his predecessor, the Canadiens' Jeff Gorton.

Jun 26 • 11:27 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com

Protests at Sen. Collins’s office on Dobbs anniversary

Members of Indivisible Maine and supporters of Graham Platner gathered outside Sen. Susan Collins’ office on Wednesday to criticize her comment that she does “not regret” supporting Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.

Jun 25 • 9:10 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Abortion rights fight underscores key themes in Maine’s U.S. Senate race

Four years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. In the majority of that decision was Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine had voted to confirm after he had told her the landmark decision was “settled law.”

Jun 24 • 7:45 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

Guthrie announces bipartisan online safety package

The agreement, months in the making, protects children and empowers parents, Rep. Guthrie and Rep. Pallone said.

Jun 23 • 5:49 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com

How Texas Tech played itself, and the Big 12 commissioner rose to meet his tenure-defining moment

As we turn the page on the Brendan Sorsby we look back at how Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's threat unified the Big 12, and commissioner Brett Yormark pulled all the right levers to advocate for his member schools

Jun 17 • 12:43 PM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com

Jennifer Lopez admits she 'would've had sex' with entire star-studded 90s movie cast

Jennifer Lopez made a NSFW confession about the 1993 movie "True Romance" cast during a podcast interview with "Office Romance" co-star Brett Goldstein.

Jun 13 • 6:12 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com

The 5 best Jennifer Lopez rom-coms to watch after “Office Romance”

Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein's new Netflix rom-com will leave you swooning for more.

Jun 12 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

2025-26 Season in Review: Brett Kulak

Vitals Player: Brett KulakBorn: Jan. 6, 1994 (32 years old)Height: 6-foot-1Weight: 192 poundsHometown: Edmonton, Alberta, CanadaShoots: LeftDraft: 2012 NHL Draft, fourth round, 14th pick (105th overall) by Calgary Flames2025-26 Statistics (with Pittsburgh): 25 games played; one goal; six assists; seven pointsContract Status: Entering unrestricted free agency on July 1 after completion of a four-year, $11,000,000 contract […]

Jun 10 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

‘A calling’: Paid foster parents are changing outcomes for NC children

Crossnore President Brett Loftis, CEO Sarah Norris discuss professional foster parenting and its role in reforming NC’s child welfare system.

Jun 5 • 4:15 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org

SpaceX's Starlink business alone can justify the valuation, says Ark Invest's Brett Winton

Brett Winton, Ark Investment Management chief futurist, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the upcoming SpaceX IPO, the company's Startlink business, impact of the Blue Origin's rocket explosion, and more.

Jun 4 • 7:45 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com

Savannah Guthrie tries to 'fluster' Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein by pressing them over dating rumors

'Office Romance' stars Jennifer Lopez and Brett Goldstein have sparked their own romance speculation, prompting Savannah Guthrie to grill them for answers.

Jun 2 • 12:55 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Promising IU business graduate killed in downtown Indy shooting

INDIANAPOLIS — Brett Scrogham, 23, was inside a parking garage at 101 South Capitol Avenue early Thursday evening and on his way to join his folks at an Indianapolis Indians game at Victory Field. …

May 31 • 6:55 PM EDT • Business • fox59.com