Tag: healthcare
CBO: Trump law will add $3.4 rrillion to deficit, boot 10...
Warnings about the law's impact on the national debt and the healthcare of millions—particularly Americans on Medicaid—were prominent during the GOP effort to pass the budget reconciliation package by Trump's Independence Day deadline.
FDA inspectors again find dangerous breakdowns at an Indian factory supplying...
Sun Pharma continues to ship some drugs to Americans even after banning the factory from the U.S. market because of quality problems.
Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model
Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.
Heinrich-backed ORPHAN Cures Act returns in GOP reconciliation bill, critics say...
Senate parliamentarian reverses an earlier ruling, letting a provision that shields multi-use orphan drugs from Medicare price talks ride on Republicans’ budget package as patient advocates warn of higher costs for taxpayers and seniors.
GOP healthcare bill would strip insurance from 16 million to fund...
Republican budget proposal would double uninsured rates in many states and lead to over 50,000 preventable deaths each year, healthcare workers warn.
Exposure to synthetic chemicals in food poses health impacts, new study...
Their conclusion: a need to transition to a safer, more sustainable food system.
CDC reports drug overdose deaths decline 27% in 2024
With 87,000 drug overdose deaths reported from October 2023 to September 2024, this number is down from around 114,000 in the previous year.
GOP budget plan threatens 34 million children with loss of food...
New report reveals nearly half of U.S. children could lose access to Medicaid or SNAP under Republican-backed budget reconciliation plan, disproportionately harming marginalized families.
‘This is where kids with cancer are’: Israel bombs Gaza hospitals,...
U.S.-backed Israeli strikes destroy hospitals in Khan Younis, killing patients, staff, and journalists as Gaza’s health system nears total collapse under allegations of war crimes.
How Medicaid helps to empower Americans and build a stronger nation
Americans fervently support Medicaid, in part because so many depended on it at one time or know someone who survived because of it.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.