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GOP Unveils Sweeping, Brutal Medicaid Cuts

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On Sunday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) released budget reconciliation text that outlined extensive cuts to Medicaid planned by the Republican Party—which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office promptly estimated “would reduce the number of people with health insurance by at least 8.6 million” nationwide. At least $715 billion would be cut […]

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Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Wants to “Raise the Vibration of Humanity”

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On Wednesday, following controversy about inconsistencies in her résumé, President Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to become Surgeon General, and gave the nod to alternative medicine practitioner and author Dr. Casey Means. “Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Dr. […]

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The Case That Could Gut Disabled People’s Right to Equal Health Care

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For decades, American hospitals have been subject to Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and to the Americans with Disabilities Act, landmark federal disability civil rights laws that guarantee equal access to health care. But Hickson v. St. David’s Healthcare Partnership, a case before the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, could upend those protections—giving […]

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Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump and DOGE Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care

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Congress mandates expanded care for veterans, but tests of treatments for cancer, opioid addiction, and more are at risk.

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“An Anti-Trans Fever Dream”: HHS Publishes Attack on Gender-Affirming Youth Care

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Three months ago, Donald Trump’s administration issued an executive order attempting to stamp out standard-of-care medical treatments for transgender children. Doctors who provided such treatments would be prosecuted, it promised; hospitals would lose all federal funding. Buried in that order was a clause directing the top federal health agency to publish, within 90 days, a […]

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3 in 4 Americans Oppose GOP Gutting Medicaid to Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich

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Republicans are also considering cuts to and work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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By Refusing to Surrender Our Humanity, We Are Still Able to Fight Back

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Sarah Kendzior discusses the Trump administration’s politics of disposability and the movement towards authoritarianism.

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The Latest Supreme Court Case Targeting the ACA Comes from a Longtime Anti-Gay Activist

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For over a decade, Americans with private health insurance have enjoyed free access to dozens of types of preventive health care: cholesterol medication, prenatal care, and many types of cancer screenings, as well as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the “miracle drug” that prevents HIV infection. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in […]

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HHS Plans to Cut Funds Used to Investigate Abuse at Group Homes

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On Wednesday, a leaked draft Health and Human Services budget document revealed, among other sweeping cuts to health- and disability-related services, that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department plans to defund protection and advocacy services for people with developmental disabilities—including autistic people, about whom Kennedy also spreads harmful disinformation. The budget document is a proposal, […]

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