How PBMs Took Over the Prescription Drug Chain — And Left Patients and Pharmacists Paying the Price By Luke Sullivan Apr 02, 2025 Americans spent a record $464 billion last year on prescription drugs, according to recent numbers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Five years ago that number was $335 […]
Canadian Born Pamela Anderson Gives Shoutout To Universal Healthcare After Father’s Cancer Scare By Jill Goldsmith March 26, 2025 Pamela Anderson, who was back on screen and all over the awards circuit with last year in Gia Coppola’s film The Last Showgirl, said today that “vanity is a prison” as she accepted a Muse
Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she’s never been there, doesn’t speak the language By Sophie Carson March 14, 2025 A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded
Children’s Hospital L.A. lifts recent limits on hormonal therapy for transgender youth By Emily Alpert Reyes (Staff Writer) February 21, 2025 Children’s Hospital L.A. is reversing its recent decision to pause initiating hormonal therapy for transgender youth, which followed an executive order by President Trump targeting such care. The hospital said it
Who’s Fighting Back (and not) Against Trump’s Cuts in VA Jobs and Services By Steve Early and Rebecca Gordon March 7, 2025 Among the Republican voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Trump over Harris by a margin of 65 to 34%, according to some exit polls.
New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review By Erin Reed March 9, 2025 In recent years, U.S. politicians have selectively framed European healthcare policies to justify restrictions on transgender care, seizing on a handful of conservative policies to claim that “Europe is pulling back.” The most extreme example,
The fabricated panic over antisemitism in the U.S. medical community conceals an attack on Palestinians By Wendell Potter February 21, 2025 In 2024, I was disinvited from presenting a lecture on the health and human rights consequences of the Israeli assault on Gaza, by unnamed administrators at Harvard University, who (I was told) accused
DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment, Claiming “Activities Aligned to Hamas” By Meghnad Bose March 9, 2025 NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf
by Sheila Bates Brittany Martin like so many heeded the call of our ancestors and the blood calling from the streets in 2020, she too heard the plea that George Floyd made when he called for his mama. It was deeply personal for her as well, her brother-in-law was killed in 2016, when
The following are links to data and news articles referenced on the show: Fast Facts: Health and Economic Costs of Chronic Conditions Fearful amid ICE crackdowns, some immigrants are skipping health care Immigration enforcement policies are creating confusion, putting health at risk Trump Backs House GOP Bill Slashing $1 Trillion From Medicaid and
