Doctors warn about harm from GOP attacks on care for trans kids
Physicians say they’re worried political attacks will make it harder for patients to access gender-affirming care.
By Casey Quinlan - March 18, 2022Physicians say they’re worried political attacks will make it harder for patients to access gender-affirming care.
By Casey Quinlan - March 18, 2022Americans in the Medicaid gap are risking their lives because they can’t afford health care. President Joe Biden’s agenda may help address that problem.
By Belinda Sherley - March 09, 2022The Wisconsin Republican also lauded Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) for his plan to sunset Social Security and raise taxes on most Americans.
By Josh Israel - March 08, 2022The Wisconsin Republican senator said the party needs to be ready to ‘make good on what we established as our priorities.’
By Josh Israel - March 07, 2022Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton are targeting trans kids and their families.
By Casey Quinlan - February 28, 2022‘It felt like my life was being signed away,’ an Arkansas teenager told the New York Times in January.
By Casey Quinlan - February 23, 2022ACOG is asking clinicians to ‘acknowledg[e] historical and ongoing reproductive mistreatment of people of color and other marginalized individuals whose reproductive desires have been devalued.’
By Lisa Needham - February 09, 2022Republicans tried to repeal the health care law, which would have led to a loss of coverage for millions.
By Oliver Willis - January 27, 2022The Biden administration has accomplished a lot in the first year but more work remains, they say.
By Casey Quinlan - January 21, 2022Groups like the ‘American College of Pediatricians’ are using their professional associations to legitimize dangerous messaging about LGBTQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - January 19, 2022Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.
By Casey Quinlan - January 11, 2022Trans youth targeted by discriminatory state laws could be helped by a new rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - January 06, 2022A new poll finds lingering concerns over quality of care and patient privacy.
By Associated Press - December 30, 2021Experts say far-right activists are setting their sights on gender-affirming care providers.
By Casey Quinlan - December 16, 2021The Democrats’ social spending package would invest $1 billion in medical and nursing school programs and would support medical students from underrepresented communities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 08, 2021Dr. Kevin Baumlin, who is also running for Senate in Pennsylvania, said Oz’s past comments on COVID-19 are ‘offensive and borderline malpractice.’
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 02, 2021New HIV infections in the U.S. fell about 8% from 2015 to 2019, but Black and Latino communities continue to be disproportionately affected, according to CDC data.
By Associated Press - December 01, 2021‘The only way to really beat COVID is for all of us collectively to work together for the greater good.’
By Associated Press - November 27, 2021A Texas health program that offered mental health care and hormone treatments to trans kids has dissolved following attacks from anti-trans protesters who falsely claimed the program was ‘child abuse.’
By Casey Quinlan - November 22, 2021Every House Republican voted against President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2021The Wisconsin GOP senator also spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines in a recent speech.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 19, 2021By nearly every metric, the United States is doing very poorly when it comes to maternal and infant health.
By Lisa Needham - November 18, 2021They also support many of the policies that Democratic lawmakers are hoping to add to the bill.
By Josh Israel - November 02, 2021Policymakers should not be ‘enforcing very narrowly defined conceptions of what people’s bodies should or should not look like,’ one expert said.
By Casey Quinlan - October 28, 2021Lawmakers and faith leaders spoke of the religious grounds for eradicating child poverty, expanding health care coverage, and addressing the climate crisis.
By Josh Axelrod - October 21, 2021The program has helped 550,000 Virginians get health insurance — and has saved the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
By Nick Vachon - October 07, 2021Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) claimed research on gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors ‘harms kids,’ but studies have shown otherwise.
By Casey Quinlan - September 24, 2021House Republicans attempted to kill provisions of the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan that would expand coverage and lower drug prices.
By Josh Israel - September 15, 2021Both Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services claim gender confirmation surgery for transgender minors is child abuse — even though such procedures are nearly nonexistent.
By Casey Quinlan - August 13, 2021Frustrated by their leaders’ responses to COVID, doctors are taking action to change things themselves. Could 2022 be the year of the physician candidate?
By Jacob Gardenswartz - July 30, 2021