In advance of World AIDS Day Saturday, a coalition of HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations have laid out a detailed plan to end the U.S. HIV epidemic by 2025.
The new roadmap sets ambitious goals for treatment and prevention and calls upon lawmakers to enact the kinds of changes that will help achieve them.
What that looks like is meeting what is called the “95/95/95” framework:
- 95 percent of people who have HIV are aware of their status.
- 95 perce...
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Trump admin can’t use Congress to repeal Obamacare, so it’s asking states to rewrite the health law
Less than a month after the midterm elections ended the possibility of Obamacare repeal in Congress, the Trump administration has called on states to rewrite the health law in the image of failed GOP health bills.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new guidance on Thursday encouraging states to implement changes to the marketplace that fundamentally undermine the goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
States have always had the ability to modify the ACA...
Now that a record number of women head to Congress, can they repeal the Hyde Amendment?
For the past four decades, lawmakers in Washington, D.C. have largely prohibited federal dollars from paying for low-income people’s abortions. But with a record number of Democratic women elected to office in November and their party holding the majority in the House next year, momentum is building to lift the ban.
By ThinkProgress’ count, at least 183 House members support repealing the Hyde Amendment, a legislative provision that prohibits federal Medicaid dollars fro...
What the Democratic House majority means for Medicare for All
Thousands of people dialed into a call Tuesday evening to strategize how Democrats can make unprecedented progress on Medicare for All. A week after the midterm elections handed House Democrats the majority, organizers with National Nurses United hosted a conference call with lawmakers, activists, and just about any #M4A enthusiast, outlining how single-payer legislation passes at least one chamber of Congress. By the end of the one-hour call, most unmuted to say “I believe that we w...
Thanks to voters, America will have the most number of abortion-friendly governors in decades
While the Trump administration continues to limit access to sexual and reproductive health care, patients and activists alike can take comfort in knowing rollbacks may abate at the state-level as newly elected governors take office in 2019. There may even be more proactive measures to expand access to birth control, abortion, and other reproductive health services next year.
The GOP’s steadfast control over state capitols wavered on Tuesday with Democratic wins in governors ra...
Falling is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to older adults
On Nov. 7, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, fell in her office and broke three ribs. She is now recovering.
For most adults, falling tends to be more damaging to your pride than your body. After age 65, though, falls can be...
Trump administration finalizes rules allowing employers to stop paying for birth control
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it has finalized the rollback of an Obama-era rule mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that required employers to provide contraception coverage for their employees, regardless of whether it conflicts with their moral or religious beliefs.
The new rules, set to take place in about 60 days, will allow employers that object to the use of birth control to stop paying for their workers’ contraception. The change will affect b...
West Virginia and Alabama voters approve dangerous anti-choice ballot initiatives
Voters in Alabama and West Virginia approved ballot initiatives on Tuesday that will update the state constitutions to declare that abortion rights are not guaranteed, a move that will severely curtail reproductive rights in the states. In Oregon, voters blocked a similar ballot initiative that would have prevented taxpayer dollars from covering abortions for Medicaid beneficiaries and public employees.
Pro-choice and anti-choice advocates in all three states campaigned for weeks pr...
Voters just gave more than 300,000 people health care
Residents in Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah voted to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Tuesday, granting health coverage to more than 300,000 low-income people.
Although all three states historically voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential elections, activists gathered enough signatures to put Medicaid on the ballot in each red state and residents managed to set partisan politics aside.
This means upwards of 62,000 people in Idaho, roughly ...
The biggest thing on the ballot today is the health of Americans
There is a lot at stake in today’s US midterm elections (Nov. 6). There are 435 seats in the US House of Representatives up for a vote, and Democrats need to add 25 to their current 193 seats to take the majority (two Democratic representati...
