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National Nurses United urges passage of Medicare for All Act [NNU]

National Nurses United urges passage of Medicare for All Act By National Nurses United April 29, 2025   Registered nurses with National Nurses United (NNU) are reaffirming their support for the Medicare for All Act, following the bill’s reintroduction in Congress today by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the U.S. Senate and Rep. Pramila Jayapal […]

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Yet Another Political Blow: The Loss of Evidence-Based Contraceptive Care [MedPage Today]

Yet Another Political Blow: The Loss of Evidence-Based Contraceptive Care By Preetha Nandi, MD, MPH, and Angeline Ti, MD, MPH May 3, 2025   The ongoing purge of federal workers by the Trump administration has abruptly ended a major pillar for up-to-date, evidence-based information that clinicians across the U.S. and around the world rely on.

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A Playbook to Protect Insurers’ Medicaid ATM [HEALTH CARE un-covered]

A Playbook to Protect Insurers’ Medicaid ATM By Wendell Potter May 1, 2025   The political debate over whether to cut Medicaid is heating up on Capitol Hill. Some conservatives are pushing for steep cuts, while other Republicans warn they won’t support anything that strips seniors, people with disabilities, or low-income Americans of coverage. One

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For This Insurer, Breathing Now Comes With A Catch [The Lever]

For This Insurer, Breathing Now Comes With A Catch By Helen Santoro April 25, 2025   Madison, a 12-year-old from Illinois, visits a medical clinic every other week to get injections of Xolair, a powerful asthma and allergy medication. The drug helps protect her from severe asthma attacks as well as serious allergic reactions to

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The Medicaid You Don’t Know You’re On: How Rebranding Hides Threats to Your Care [HEALTH CARE un-covered]

The Medicaid You Don’t Know You’re On: How Rebranding Hides Threats to Your Care By Wendell Potter and Joey Rettino April 30, 2025   On Capitol Hill, the clock is ticking. Republicans are racing to finalize numbers for President Trump’s tax plan and domestic policy agenda — and Medicaid, the health care lifeline for more

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Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they’re suddenly uninsured [NPR]

Fired, rehired, and fired again: Some federal workers find they’re suddenly uninsured By Andrea Hsu April 25, 2025   Danielle Waterfield was already dealing with the shock and disappointment of being fired from a job she loved.   An attorney recruited to the Commerce Department’s CHIPS for America program in 2023, Waterfield had felt she

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White House eyes 30% HHS budget cut: 11 things to know [Becker’s Hospital Review]

White House eyes 30% HHS budget cut: 11 things to know By Madeline Ashley April 17, 2025   The Trump administration is looking to cut the HHS budget by around one-third in an effort that would dramatically scale back federal health programs, The Washington Post reported April 16.   The draft budget for HHS, obtained

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How the Affordable Care Act Drove Consolidation and Moral Injury – and What We Can Do About It [HEALTH CARE un-covered]

How the Affordable Care Act Drove Consolidation and Moral Injury – and What We Can Do About It By Wendy Dean, MD April 18, 2025   It’s conference season, so I’ve been traveling and speaking a lot about moral injury.   Usually, audiences talk about the moral events they face as practitioners. But at a

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UnitedHealth stock craters in worst day since 1998 on ‘unusual and unacceptable’ results [Yahoo Finance]

UnitedHealth stock craters in worst day since 1998 on ‘unusual and unacceptable’ results By Laura Bratton April 18, 2025   UnitedHealth (UNH) stock cratered just over 22% Thursday — its biggest single-day drop since August 1998 — after its first quarter earnings missed expectations and the company cut its full-year profit guidance.   The health

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Exclusive-FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say [MSN]

Exclusive-FDA fires most negotiators for pharma user fee talks, sources say By Maggie Fick and Marisa Taylor April 18, 2025   LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s mass layoffs included senior negotiators in talks with the pharmaceutical industry over renewing the user fee programs that fund the regulator’s drug review system, six sources

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