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. […]
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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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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40% of nurses eye exit by 2029: 5 findings from NCSBN’s new workforce report By Erica Carbajal April 17, 2025 While the post-pandemic nursing workforce is showing signs of stabilizing, high levels of burnout, stress and dissatisfaction continue to threaten long-term workforce stability, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s biennial
