Over the past year, Dr. Shanthi Ramesh performed abortions for seven sexual assault survivors and she recalls Medicaid insurance only paying for two.
It didn’t matter that they were all technically eligible for Medicaid — meaning, they were all poor enough to receive public health insurance — or that a doctor, in her professional opinion, believed they were raped. She says four of the seven women did not report their assaults to local law enforcement and, so, insurance ...
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Trump claims ‘All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions’ in blatant lie
President Donald Trump, whose administration asked a court to end Obamacare’s protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions just last month, claimed “All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions” in a tweet on Thursday.
All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don’t, they will after I speak to them. I am in total support. Also, Democrats will destroy your Medicare, and I will keep it ...
A Dutch physician is sending medication abortion to Americans by mail
If you have to travel 100 miles to terminate your pregnancy, ordering abortion pills online might be a more practical option for you. But while it’s relatively easy to purchase medication abortion on the internet, websites can feel sketchy or confusing as they don’t always provide the relevant information or instructions.
Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts has addressed this problem, launching a new service called Aid Access that mails abortion pills to people living in th...
McConnell warns Republicans will try to repeal Obamacare again if midterms go well for GOP
With midterm elections fast approaching, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has let it be known that Republicans aren’t done trying to repeal Obamacare.
Calling the GOP’s previous attempt to end the Affordable Care Act “the one disappointment of this Congress from a Republican point of view,” McConnell told Reuters on Wednesday that his party could make another run at President Barack Obama’s signature health care law if Republicans expand th...
Ted Cruz once shut down the government over Obamacare. Now, he vows to defend a key part of the law.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — who’s repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a replacement and for the widely unpopular GOP health bill — told voters he wants to protect people with pre-existing conditions.
Cruz repeatedly misled Texans about his record and on Medicare for All during a debate with his Democratic challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke Tuesday night. With polls suggesting protections for people with pre-existing conditions are very popu...
Here’s a list of every vulnerable House Republican who voted to gut pre-existing conditions coverage
Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are positioning themselves as members of the party that will protect people with pre-existing conditions. But this campaign strategy simply doesn’t match up with their voting record on health care.
“Republicans only will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions,” said President Donald Trump during a campaign rally for Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the truth is Barr voted to weaken p...
Unvaccinated Florida child becomes first death of U.S. flu season
The Florida Department of Health announced Monday that a child who hadn’t received a flu vaccination was the first confirmed fatality of flu season in the United States.
The unidentified child was said to be healthy before testing positive for influenza, according to the state’s Bureau of Epidemiology.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that a shot reduces the likelihood of flu-related illness by 40 to 60 percent. The CDC recommends the ...
Senate Republicans show their true colors when it comes to pre-existing conditions
Protecting people with pre-existing conditions isn’t a priority for Republicans — lowering insurance premiums is. Senate Republicans said as much when they voted Wednesday against blocking the Trump administration’s expansion of health plans that can deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
In a 50-50 vote, Republicans defeated Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-WI) resolution to overturn the Trump administration’s rule permitting insurers to sell sho...
All the president’s lies about Medicare for All
President Donald Trump took a break from Twitter Wednesday to rail against Medicare for All in a falsehood-ridden op-ed for USA Today, despite promising voters on the campaign trail in 2016 that health care for all is “just human decency.”
The op-ed, which editors clearly didn’t bother to fact-check, contained dozens of lies about the health care proposal for which many Democrats have advocated over the past two years. The plan has various interpretations, depending on which Democr...
Medicaid expansion is on the ballot again in Maine this November
PORTLAND, MAINE — “When I’m in pain, I take Tylenol. I can’t have it looked at,” said 59-year-old Ann Avery, her voice cracking before she started to cry.
“I did find the list of some of the things that’s wrong me,” she told ThinkProgress. Depression, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, and Piriformis syndrome, to name a few.
“I have no idea what some of these things are,” Avery said. But she could tell you theyR...