Healthcare
The Senate, a body thought to be the moderating force in Congress, has instead taken a yolo approach to legislating, passing a version of President Trump’s budget bill that is…
Caring for an aging parent can be enormously expensive and time-consuming. Yet, while most people will face the moment when a parent can no longer live without assistance, neither Medicare…
Fact Check: Donald Trump is linked to Project 2025 in several ways. Over 140 of his advisors and staff worked on the Heritage Foundation project. And Donald Trump himself told…
Project 2025 would both reduce access to healthcare and make it more expensive. It would do this through a series or restrictions, cuts and repeals that include ending abortion access,…
Donald Trump has failed women and families. Whether or not you believe that he, personally, doesn’t care about abortion — or is even pro-choice — his actions have created harm…
When Republicans are arguing about which government —state or federal — should control access to healthcare, they’ve lost the thread entirely. Kamala Harris calls state laws that limit or ban…
Fact-checkers are piling on Tim Walz’s claim during the presidential debate that Project 2025 calls for the monitoring of pregnant women. Walz said that a future Trump administration would establish…
The Trump administration negotiated a deal with the pharmaceutical industry that would have “addressed out-of-pocket consumer costs and covered the majority of the Medicare copayments that seniors pay for prescription…
What’s behind the drive to raise the cost of drugs? Drugs Americans need to stay well and recover from illnesses, or to cope with permanent health issues, such as diabetes.…
Democrats have taken action on inflation but the media seems to ignore it and focus on the horse race lies from the GOP. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is…
The Right to Contraception Act is a short bill introduced in the House as H.R.8373 – Right to Contraception Act. The bill guarantees your right to contraception and family planning.…
The choice between combatting inflation and protecting democracy is false. The 2022 midterms are one of the most important elections of our lifetimes — democracy hangs in the balance. Almost…
Congressman Ted Budd voted against H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019, which would lower the cost of prescription drugs and insulin. Days later…
Senator Marco Rubio was asked if he would support a Federal abortion ban with no exceptions – a position he clearly holds as an anti-abortion absolutist. Rubio, who has previously…
Pharmacists are withholding medication. And some women are having to carry dead fetuses because doctors are afraid to perform life-saving procedures that might run afoul of anti-abortion laws in their…
Ever since Herschel Walker said he would not have voted for the Inflation Reduction Act (which, among other things, will cap insulin copays at $35/month), his supporters have come to…
Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for one of Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats, believes that pharmaceutical companies should be able to charge diabetes patients whatever they like for insulin. Walker…
During the Republican primary, Blake Masters published on his campaign website that he would only support federal judges that would agree that “Griswold v. Connecticut” and other Supreme Court cases…