Threats to Health Care in the New Congress

by Margarida Jorge | Dec 12, 2024 | Blog, Federal Budget and Tax Policy, Health Care for All

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

by Margarida Jorge | Nov 22, 2024 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

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

by Joel Foster | Oct 7, 2024 | Blog, Health Care for All

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

by Joel Foster | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

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

by Joel Foster | Aug 16, 2024 | Blog, Health Care for All, Lower Drug Prices Now

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

by admin | Jun 14, 2024 | Blog, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice

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...