Nicole Arteaga, a 35-year-old first-grade teacher in Arizona, walked into her local Walgreens in Peoria on Wednesday to have her prescription for misoprostol filled. Arteaga was prescribed misoprostol, a drug that induces a medical abortion, by her physician nine weeks into her pregnancy after—according to a Facebook…
In February, Texas and 19 attorney generals of other Republican-led states filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday night, the DOJ sided with them, saying that it won’t defend the Obama-era healthcare law “with the approval of the President of the United…
Authorities announced on Tuesday that the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating allegations brought by 52 women who have accused former University of Southern California gynecologist, Dr. George Tyndall, of sexual misconduct.
As the world around us burns like one massive tire fire, please allow me to share one piece of hopeful news: A state senator in California, taking a shit all over Donald Trump’s racist immigration agenda, has drafted a bill that would offer health insurance coverage for all undocumented immigrants in the state.
Now that the Trump administration has given states the green light to impose cruel and unnecessary work requirements on Medicaid recipients, some states are already scrambling to impose them on their poorest citizens. But some states are attempting to customize their plans to shield their rural white populations from…
In an essay published on CNN on Tuesday, tennis phenom Serena Williams revealed that she almost died from complications resulting from giving birth to her daughter, Olympia, by emergency C-section in September.
In a characteristically cruel turn of events, on Thursday, the Trump administration announced an overhaul of the Department of Health and Human Services that will likely make it easier for doctors, nurses, and other health care workers to withhold their services on religious grounds. Acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan,…
The Trump administration has made major headway toward allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients, tying the two together for the first time in the program’s 52-year history.
In its signature dictatorship[REDACTED] authoritarian preference of democratic governing style, the Trump administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from using seven words in their budget documents. The words are: “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,”…
With many of the babies born with Zika virus-related developmental issues growing out of infancy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new study of that group, finding that toddlers born with Zika are unable to sit, hold their heads up, or speak.
On Wednesday, Judge Lee Yeakel of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that the state’s law severely restricting a type of second-trimester abortion procedure is unconstitutional, the New York Times reports.
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Several states are banding together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump’s decision yesterday to kill off subsidies crucial to Obamacare, which help decrease medical expenses for millions around the country.
A few hours after Donald Trump signed an executive order laying the groundwork for depleted health care plans down the road, the White House confirmed reports on Thursday that the Trump administration will be ending federal subsidies for health insurers that help millions of low-income Americans afford health care by…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
On Friday, the Trump administration rolled back the Obamacare birth control mandate, offering an exemption on religious or moral grounds to employers who had been required to include birth control coverage in insurance plans—and that was just the latest sign that the Trump administration is following the standard,…
Birth control should be free, but instead the Trump administration is reportedly about to make it even harder for some women to obtain.
In the midst of their bid to rip health insurance from millions of Americans under the now-failed Graham-Cassidy bill, Republicans allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire, leaving 9 million kids waiting for their states to run out of money that provides them with free or low-cost health…
