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The GOP’s Plan to Defund Planned Parenthood Would Add $300 Million to the Deficit

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The contentious plan to defund Planned Parenthood, included in the Republican-backed reconciliation bill that would slash millions in Medicaid funding, would cost taxpayers $300 million over the next decade, according to a leaked preliminary estimate compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The news comes as House Republicans have doubled down on the proposal […]

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25 Arrested While Protesting GOP Medicaid Cuts

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Within the first few minutes of Tuesday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on planned Republican Medicaid cuts—which would render more than 8 million Americans uninsured—a contingent of protesters entered the room in Washington, DC’s Rayburn Building where members of Congress had gathered. The protesters, shouting “No cuts to Medicaid!” represented groups including the […]

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Wall Street Gutted Steward Health Care. Patients Paid the Price.

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Sungida Rashid had no intention of taking an Uber to the birth of her first child. She’d never been one to take the easy route, and besides, she wanted to get things moving—and walking seemed the best way to do it. So on an overcast Sunday in October 2023, Sungida and her husband, Nabil Haque, […]

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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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Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War on Science at the NIH

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on vaccine hesitancy and the Covid pandemic, as well as gender-affirming care, climate change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other areas, according to a new draft guidance memo reviewed by Mother Jones. The internal memo, which has not been […]

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A Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War on Science at the NIH

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research projects focused on vaccine hesitancy and the Covid pandemic, as well as gender-affirming care, climate change, and diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other areas, according to a new draft guidance memo reviewed by Mother Jones. The internal memo, which has not been […]

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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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RFK Jr. May Have Inspired Acting US Attorney’s Harassment of Medical Journals

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Ed Martin, the acting US Attorney for Washington, DC, had recently been peppering medical journals with “vaguely threatening” letters accusing them of acting as “partisans” in scientific debates. Those missives are just one genre within a barrage of communiques Martin has sent to perceived Trump foes—congressional Democrats, special counsel Jack Smith, a former Mueller prosecutor, […]

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The Trump Administration Canceled a Program That Reduced SIDS. Enter the Anti-Vaxxers.

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After years of progress in reducing the number of babies that succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the National Institutes of Health has terminated its participation in the Safe to Sleep program, STAT News reported last week. The program encouraged parents to practice a suite of evidence-based safety practices when putting their infants to […]

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Republicans Seek to Kill California Auto Pollution Rules Using a “Blatantly Illegal” Tactic

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration On a warm July morning in 1943, in the middle of World War II, a thick cloud of acrid smoke blanketed downtown Los Angeles, turning its clear blue skies into an inscrutable brown haze that left Angelenos with burning eyes, […]

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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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