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Anti-Abortion Playbook, Flipped: Arkansas Abortion Fund Opens Its Own “Crisis Pregnancy Center”

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For nine years, Karen Musick stood outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic in Arkansas, protecting women arriving for their abortion appointments from anti-abortion protesters who regularly gathered there. After retiring from her job as a loan specialist with the Small Business Administration, Musick was filled with purpose as a clinic escort volunteer. “I […]

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Medicaid Cuts Threaten Life-Saving Care for Rural Black Families

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Experts worry a lack of access could lead to death and chronic illnesses, and worsen economic disparities.

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NIH Hospital Sees “Manufactured Crisis” as Patient Numbers Plummet Under Trump

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It cares for those with rare or life-threatening diseases, and has faced mass firings and the gutting of research.

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Health Insurance Laws Have Led to a Grim Milestone for Young People: Turning 26

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As the GOP erodes the ACA, people who reach the cutoff age hit an insurance cliff if their jobs don’t provide coverage.

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DOJ Allows UnitedHealth to Expand Its Conglomerate by Buying Up Competitor

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“Big Medicine will profit at the expense of vulnerable hospice patients,” one health care analyst said.

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Idaho Lost One in Three OB/GYNs After Its Abortion Ban

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Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. The fallout soon made headlines. The Biden-era Department of Justice sued, alleging that the Idaho ban violated a federal law that required hospitals to stabilize people who arrived in their emergency […]

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This $50 Billion Band-Aid Won’t Save Rural Health Care

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In January 2021, 70-mile-per-hour winds ripped through the High Plains, from Eastern Colorado to Western Kansas, and enveloped a portion of Interstate 70 in a deluge of dust and debris that suddenly blinded drivers. The result was predictable: multiple pileups of cars and semi-trucks, with more than two dozen people injured amid tons of crushed […]

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Over a Dozen States Sue Trump Administration to Protect Gender Affirming Care

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The new lawsuit argues Trump is pursuing a backdoor strategy to restrict care nationally while skirting state laws.

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60 Years After Creation of Medicaid, GOP Cuts Threaten the Lifeline for Millions

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The GOP budget bill slashes nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, which is the largest payer of long-term care in the US.

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The Surgery That Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Women’s Health Care

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For decades, the default feminist position on hysterectomy has been skepticism—and with good reason: The history of gynecology is replete with stories of unethical doctors and gruesome experimentation, of deeply ingrained misogyny and horrific racism. But when Hunter College medical sociologist Andréa Becker started doing research on hysterectomies in 2019, she discovered that many women […]

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