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May 21, 2025
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Melissa Gira Grant
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
The state’s voters defeated an abortion ban. So why can’t more people get one?
May 21, 2025
Monica Potts
The Republicans’ Medicaid Cuts Could Cause a Rural Unemployment Crisis
The spending cuts could force many rural hospitals to close. That wouldn’t just be a crisis for rural health care but for rural employment too.
May 19, 2025
Laura Weiss
An Anti-Science MAHA Extremist Is Playing a Major Role at the FDA
On first glance, Dr. Vinay Prasad’s medical credentials sound impressive. But look closer and you’ll find a narcissistic attention-seeker peddling misinformation, whose views will cost lives.
May 16, 2025
Monica Potts
Americans Like Medicaid—But They Also Like Work Requirements
This is the dilemma the Democrats face as the Republicans push to impose onerous hurdles on Medicaid in their budget bill.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Second State Bans Fluoride in Water in Huge Win for RFK Jr.
Two states have now hopped on board Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “MAHA” train.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Georgia Is Forcing a Brain-Dead Woman to Complete Her Pregnancy
Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain-dead. Georgia bans abortion at around six weeks.
May 15, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Missouri Voters Overturned an Abortion Ban. Republicans Ignored Them.
State Republican senators have usurped the will of the voters on abortion.
May 15, 2025
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
MAGA Senator’s Stunning Admission: GOP Is Badly Screwing Trump Voters
As a staunch Trump ally openly acknowledges the truth about the House GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” a leading health care reporter explains all the ways it will seriously hurt the Trump-MAGA working-class base.
May 13, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
“You Will Kill Me”: Protester Dragged Out as GOP Debates Medicaid Cuts
Multiple protests broke out during the hearing.
May 13, 2025
Matt Ford
The Trump Administration’s Reckless Policies Will Kill Children
The administration’s “pronatalist” position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to sicken and die.
May 12, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Fails Basic Math Problem in His Own Drug Prices Executive Order
Donald Trump made some wild claims about how much he’s about to bring down drug costs.
May 12, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Drug Prices Executive Order Is a Big Pile of Nothing
Donald Trump has tried something like this once before—and failed.
May 12, 2025
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Alexander Zaitchik
A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System
An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.
May 9, 2025
Edith Olmsted
RFK Jr. Caught Lying About New Surgeon General Nominee
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is just making stuff up to justify his choice to nominate wellness influencer Casey Means.
May 5, 2025
Grace Segers
The Republican Budget Plan Could Kick Millions Off Medicaid
As GOP lawmakers mull how to slash federal spending, health care for low-income Americans could be first on the chopping block.
May 1, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
RFK Jr. Unhingedly Claims Measles Vaccine Made With Aborted Fetuses
WTF is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talking about with this new conspiracy?
April 30, 2025
Elliot Haspel
Democrats Should Be Encouraging Women to Have All the Babies They Want
The left loves to mock right-wing pronatalists. But the decline in marriages and births in America is an existential threat to the liberal agenda.
April 21, 2025
Marin Scotten
MAGA Republicans Get Ready to Gut Medicaid to Help Trump
“Millions” of people will lose health insurance if Republicans push these plans through.
April 18, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s New Medicaid Chief Has Boneheaded Idea to Lower Drug Costs
Dr. Oz made the comments right after being sworn in.
April 4, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
RFK Jr. Reveals DOGE Fired Some People by Mistake
According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk’s job cuts aren’t so efficient after all.
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