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Threats to Health Care in the New Congress
The election is over and whatever opinion anyone has about the outcome, we can all be certain that millions will feel the impact of changes to healthcare when Republican leaders take over next year. President-elect Trump has not yet given up on his 2017 goal to...
Despite Big Progress on Abortion in Seven States, Future Remains Uncertain
Though ballot measures to expand abortion rights and access won in 7 out of 10 states during the 2024 election, the future of abortion access remains very uncertain in the wake of the overall election results that have put a Republican anti-abortion majority in charge...
Negative Political Attacks on Immigrants Obscure The Facts
The political rhetoric leading up to this year’s election is typical: lots of soundbites and half-truths designed largely to malign the opposition, scare voters and blame scapegoats for the very real challenges that millions of Americans have been grappling with as...
New Progress on Abortion Ballot Measures Marks Historic Turning Point in Advancing Reproductive Freedom and Access
Long before the Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe v. Wade decision that granted Americans the Constitutional right to abortion, advocates for reproductive freedom faced tremendous attacks from abortion opponents who passed more than 1,300 abortion...
Ten Reasons to Celebrate the IRA’s Health Care Provisions on 2nd Anniversary
August 16th, 2024, marks the two-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the historic law that took on Big Pharma to lower drug prices in Medicare after decades of drug corporation price-gouging. President Biden signed the new law in 2022 after...
Supreme Court Preserve Access to Medication Abortion, But More Attacks on the Horizon
The Supreme Court has started issuing June decisions in pending cases that could affect the future of abortion access and reproductive health in the United States. Given SCOTUS’ last big abortion decision, Dobbs v. Jackson, which effectively ended the Constitutional...
Providing the Health Care Everyone Deserves Depends on Workers
President Biden has repeatedly affirmed that in the United States, health care should be a right, not a privilege. But guaranteeing everyone access to the health care they need is going to require dramatic action over the coming years, including meaningful...
14 Features to Celebrate on the ACA’s 14th Anniversary
March 23, 2024 marks the 14th anniversary of the passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act, the most significant and comprehensive healthcare reform since the 1960s passage of Medicare and Medicaid. The law took two years to pass, over a decade to implement and...
This Black History Month, Many Black Americans Are Still Struggling to Access the Health Care They Need
It seems inadequate to designate just one month a year Black History Month given how central Black people have been to every epoch of our nation’s development dating back to the earliest days of the Republic. Nonetheless, Black History is a good opportunity to take...
For Better Health Outcomes, Investments in Nutrition Matter
Access to quality, affordable health care is a fundamental part of ensuring that people can live healthy and fulfilling lives. The health care system should be foremost focused on improving health outcomes as shown by indicators like rates of chronic disease, lifespan...