Senator Bernie Sanders says Kennedy’s policies threaten Americans’ health and future.
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Sanders Demands RFK Jr. Resign as Health and Human Services Secretary Read Post »
When President Donald Trump tries to defend his mass deportation agenda, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants are entering the United States from “mental institutions and insane asylums.” When he wants to insult people—like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Mo.), or former Vice President Kamala Harris—he calls them “low IQ,” “deranged,” and […]
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Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear Read Post »
State attorneys general will play a decisive role in halting preemptive compliance with Trump’s anti-trans threats.
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Michigan AG Warns Capitulating to Trump’s Trans Health Care Ban May Be Illegal Read Post »
The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,000 people in the US. That’s more than the number of Americans who died in the Civil War. But in the background, another crisis has been simmering: the often-lawless patchwork of treatment centers and […]
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Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery Read Post »
The memo also mandates that insurers cover “faith-based counseling,” otherwise known as conversion therapy.
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Trump Admin Memo Bars Federal Health Plans From Covering Gender-Affirming Care Read Post »
Freddie Elmore hasn’t worked for around 20 years. Now, he’s trying to figure out how, and if, he can return to the workforce—not because he thinks he can do so while managing his health, but because he is concerned that he will lose Medicaid. To retain Medicaid coverage, Elmore, who lives with disorders including central […]
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RFK Jr. Is Getting Personal Authority Over Who to Kick Off Medicaid Read Post »
Truthout speaks to filmmaker Reid Davenport about assisted suicide, Medicaid cuts, and the fight for disabled lives.
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Is Assisted Suicide About Autonomy or Coercion? A New Film Asks Hard Questions. Read Post »
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. April Lee was still functional in her opioid addiction, still walking her kids to school in Philadelphia, preparing her infant daughter’s bottles, when a sexual assault sent her teetering over the edge. She had been drugged at a […]
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Choose Your Child or Choose Recovery: The Impossible Decision Facing Addicted Mothers Read Post »
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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Experts worry a lack of access could lead to death and chronic illnesses, and worsen economic disparities.
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Medicaid Cuts Threaten Life-Saving Care for Rural Black Families Read Post »
But accessing the technology can be a challenge and virtual appointments aren’t a viable long-term solution.
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Immigration Raids and Fear of Deportation Push Patients Into Telehealth Read Post »
It cares for those with rare or life-threatening diseases, and has faced mass firings and the gutting of research.
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NIH Hospital Sees “Manufactured Crisis” as Patient Numbers Plummet Under Trump Read Post »
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