Healthcare

Of course Trump is targeting the disabled.  How many other things are they doing behind our backs?

Some Americans could lose Social Security Disability Insurance benefits under a recent Trump administration proposal ― a change that could affect thousands of people but that has received little attention since it was first floated in November. 

More than 8 million Americans receive disability benefits based on past employment and a loss of wage income due to the onset of a severe disability.

Anti-choice politicians don’t care about respecting the Supreme Court’s precedent. All they care about is fulfilling their extremist political agenda.  Shame on those involved.

If you are a person who wants to keep their right to choose what to do with your own body, this is a loud reminder why everyone must vote in the upcoming elections.

The Supreme Court refused to review a Kentucky law that compels abortion providers to insert a transvaginal probe, describe the fetus, point out its organs, and play the sound of its heartbeat. So the law stands.

Kentucky physicians are now legally obligated to penetrate many women seeking abortions with a transvaginal ultrasound and describe the fetus in extreme detail while playing its heartbeat.

This is how women’s reproductive rights will be whittled away - not in one fell swoop, but little by little and piece by piece.

The Trump administration is stonewalling Vietnam veterans from receiving the benefits they need to help manage illnesses associated with Agent Orange exposure.

Two years ago, then Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin decided to add three health conditions to the list of diseases eligible for Agent Orange benefits, but White House officials challenged his authority and impeded enactment.... Now tens of thousands of veterans are still waiting.

The Department of Health and Human Services will change the rules to allow recipients of federal grants for healthcare, including faith-based adoption agencies and foster care providers, to turn away same-sex couples.  This is an attack on the LGBTQ community.

Trump failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but he's been abusing his power to sabotage the law, and today there are 400,000 more uninsured children.

The number of uninsured children ballooned by more than 400,000 between 2016 and 2018, an unprecedented decline in health coverage for the youngest Americans, a new study has found.

Trump campaigned on forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices.  It was literally the only coherent thing to come out of his mouth.  So it shouldn't be a surprise that he's bailed on it as Big Pharma pours money into the coffers of the White House and Republican Congressmen and women.  

The premise of this web site database in January 2017 was to track what Republicans and Trump are doing that often does not ever reach the mainsteam.  Here, unfortunately, is a perfect example.

In a move that worries many public health experts, the federal government is quietly shutting down a surveillance program for dangerous animal viruses that someday may infect humans.

This term, with Kavanaugh’s vote, the Supreme Court is going to overrule Whole Woman’s Health, gut Roe v. Wade, and allow states to regulate abortion clinics out of existence.

Trump and Republicans have taken their hate for a government-run single-payer health care system official, signing an executive order decrying Medicare-for-all and promoting private insurance’s role in Medicare.