Trump is calling for a cheaper, more effective health care system. Medicare for All fits both of those criteria.
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Trump Blames Obamacare for Premium Hikes His Own Policies Created Read Post »
Critics say Trump is exploiting the federal shutdown to unilaterally slash the safety net and cause unnecessary pain.
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Attorneys General Sue Trump for Using Shutdown to Disrupt Food Aid for Millions Read Post »
One of the largest health care worker unions is spearheading the push to get the proposal on the November 2026 ballot.
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CA Organizers’ Proposal Would Tax Billionaires to Mitigate Medicaid Cut Harm Read Post »
To hear former Planned Parenthood Southeast staffers tell it, the alarm bells started going off in the summer of 2024. The latest CEO had just been ousted, and the organization needed a seasoned reproductive rights advocate to lead it through a period of unprecedented political and institutional upheaval. Instead, Mairo Akposé, the new interim chief […]
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Staffers Fear a Southern Planned Parenthood Faces a “Dangerous Threat From Within” Read Post »
By the spring of 2022, Ed Aldag was fed up. The 61-year-old CEO of a multibillion-dollar real estate company called Medical Properties Trust, Aldag is a high-society fixture in the company’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where MPT has donated millions to local nonprofits and where he’s regularly listed as one of the city’s most influential […]
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The Secret Campaign to Silence Critics of a Hospital Real Estate Empire Read Post »
Research shows that private equity acquisitions raise costs and can lead to deterioration in patient care.
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As Federal Action Stalls, States Aim to Curb Private Equity Greed in Health Care Read Post »
In the Oval Office on Thursday, several Cabinet members and advocates for in vitro fertilization (IVF) gathered to claim that President Donald Trump was delivering on his campaign trail pledge to radically expand access to the popular but expensive process for getting pregnant. In reality, Thursday’s announcement falls far short of Trump’s prior promise to […]
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So Much for Trump’s Promise of Free IVF Read Post »
This article is a collaboration with Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Sign up for a free or paid subscription, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, often misleading and confusing people seeking abortions while purporting to help them. They […]
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How Abortion Pill “Reversal” Became a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Weapon Read Post »
Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.
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23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises Read Post »
As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress’ failure to pass a continuing resolution which would fund the government for around two more months—with hundreds of thousands of workers going unpaid, federal loans to small businesses on hold, and the future of SNAP benefits at risk for coming months […]
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Brace For the Single Largest Spike in Health Insurance Premiums—Ever Read Post »
As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress’ failure to pass a continuing resolution which would fund the government for around two more months—with hundreds of thousands of workers going unpaid, federal loans to small businesses on hold, and the future of SNAP benefits at risk for coming months […]
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A decade or so ago, to help pay the bills, the artist-activist Michelle Browder started giving human-rights tours of Montgomery, Alabama, the city where her family has deep roots. Riding around in a red-and-white trolley, she would delve into the uncomfortable historical truths that many people she encountered either didn’t know about or preferred to […]
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One Woman’s Quest to Reclaim the Ugly History of Black Maternal Health Read Post »
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