Hospitals are shutting down, slashing programs, and laying off staff. And the worst parts of the spending law haven’t even hit yet.
Health and Social Policy
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The Big Beautiful Bill’s Ugly Choice: Internet or Food?
The Republican budget bill cuts food assistance benefits to households that pay for internet access.
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Families Steel for Fight After GOP Health Care Cuts
The parents of medically complex children said that despair is not an option after Republicans passed deep cuts to home care.
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Trump’s Sneak Attack on Medicare
For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare.
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Why Change VA Hospital Medical Staff Bylaws?
It threatens the principle of equity that undergirds veterans’ health care.
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Republicans Threaten a Hospital Apocalypse
Experts warn of potentially hundreds of hospital closures, which would degrade the entire medical system.
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‘So Much Evil Had To Happen for this Bill To Pass’
Oregon just made corporate medicine illegal, again. Here’s how it happened.
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Defending VA Veterans Health Care on D-Day
Thousands of veterans mobilize to oppose the gutting of direct care and the move toward privatization.
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Predatory Lenders in the Operating Room
Medical credit cards have gone mainstream, preying on sick people at their most vulnerable.
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VA Secretary Collins: Indifferent to Public’s and Congressional Opposition to His Gutting Veterans’ Care
In congressional testimony, he refused to take responsibility for his drastic downsizing.
