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What Happens to Health Programs if the Federal Government Shuts Down?
Medicare and Medicaid shouldn鈥檛 be affected, but confusion can be expected.
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What鈥檚 It Really Like to Be HHS Secretary? Three Who鈥檝e Done It Spill the Beans
Three secretaries of Health and Human Services, who served under Presidents Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Barack Obama, gathered this week for a rare, candid conversation hosted by the Aspen Ideas Festival and 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 鈥淲hat the Health?鈥 about the experience of being the nation鈥檚 top health official.
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The Debt Ceiling Deal Takes a Bite Out of Health Programs. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
A bipartisan deal to raise the government鈥檚 borrowing limit dashed Republican hopes for new Medicaid work requirements and other health spending cuts. Democrats secured the compromise by making relatively modest concessions, including ordering the return of unspent covid funds and limiting other health spending.
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Abortion Bans Are Driving Off Doctors and Closing Clinics, Putting Basic Health Care at Risk
Doctors say they are reluctant to practice in abortion-banned states, where making the best decision for a patient could run afoul of the law. Even former President Donald Trump鈥檚 surgeon general is concerned about the repercussions for women鈥檚 health, writes 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner.
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Walensky to Leave CDC in June as Covid Emergency Winds Down
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director presided over one of the most tumultuous times in the agency鈥檚 history, struggling to regain public trust after it was revealed that Trump officials intervened in its pandemic response.
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Doctors’ Lesson for Drug Industry: Abortion Wars Are Dangerous to Ignore
The American Medical Association ducked the abortion issue for years and now sees its members鈥 professional opinions second-guessed by lawmakers and judges. PhRMA is following the same playbook.
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Why Do Politicians Weaponize Medicare? Because It Works
Politicians are again pointing fingers over who wants to cut Medicare. As past Washington brawls show, the party accused of threatening popular entitlements tends to lose elections 鈥 although it鈥檚 the beneficiaries relying on lawmakers to fund it who stand to lose the most.
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Abortion Debate Ramps Up in States as Congress Deadlocks
Abortion is a top issue for state lawmakers meeting for their first full sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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Ask Voters Directly, and Abortion Rights Wins Most Ballot Fights
Anti-abortion candidates have fared well in recent elections. But decades of ballot initiatives 鈥 including a half-dozen measures considered after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June 鈥 show that when voters are asked directly, they usually side with preserving abortion rights.
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Abortion Issue Helps Limit Democrats鈥 Losses in Midterms
Although control of Congress was still undecided Wednesday, Republicans seemed poised to take power in the House, while the fate of the Senate remained too close to call. Economic issues were at the top of voters鈥 minds, but abortion access also played a large role in their decisions.
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A GOP Talking Point Suggests Birth Control Is Not at Risk. Evidence Suggests Otherwise.
Republicans say Democrats are wrong to claim that birth control could be the Supreme Court鈥檚 next target. But Democrats have plenty of evidence that it might be.
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Three Things About the Abortion Debate That Many People Get Wrong
The commonly repeated myths include arguments that only women who are pregnant are affected by the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, that Democratic lawmakers could have codified abortion protections before, and that Congress can easily get rid of federal laws restricting abortion.
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Five Things to Know Now That the Supreme Court Has Overturned Roe v. Wade聽聽
By undoing that landmark decision, the law of the land since 1973, the court has empowered states to set their own abortion restrictions 鈥 so where people live will determine their level of access.
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Conservatives on Supreme Court, as Expected, End Nationwide Right to Abortion
The 6-3 decision, telegraphed in May by an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion, eliminates the right to abortion as if it never existed at all.
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Abortion Opponents Take Political Risks by Dropping Exceptions for Rape, Incest, and the Mother鈥檚 Life
Conservative states are moving to severely restrict abortions, and many are pressing for bans that provide no exception for cases of rape or incest or even to save the life of the mother. But public opinion polls suggest those limits could cause blowback.
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Historic 鈥楤reach鈥 Puts Abortion Rights Supporters and Opponents on Alert for Upcoming Earthquake
An opinion published by Politico confirms what many who have followed the abortion debate already suspected: Roe v. Wade is soon to be no more. But the question remains: How will the public respond?
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Sen. Orrin Hatch鈥檚 Legacy Tracks the GOP鈥檚 Evolution on Health
The man who forged a successful working relationship with Democratic health giants, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy and Rep. Henry Waxman, fell back on his deep conservative roots as opposition grew to the Affordable Care Act and the administration of President Barack Obama.
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As Red States Push Strident Abortion Bans, Other Restrictions Suddenly Look Less Extreme
The Supreme Court鈥檚 conservative majority has yet to make clear its stand on Roe v. Wade. But state lawmakers aren鈥檛 waiting to consider a variety of extreme measures: bills that would ban abortions in cases of ectopic pregnancies, allow rapists鈥 families to object to terminating a victim鈥檚 pregnancy, or prohibit the procedure in the case of fetal disability. Do these proposals make the less extreme restrictions seem more mainstream?
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Fast-Tracked Ruling on Abortion Won鈥檛 Wait for 鈥楬earts and Minds鈥 to Change
Public opinion remains bitterly divided on the issue as a Supreme Court decision is imminent that could overturn or dramatically undercut Roe v. Wade.
By Julie Rovner
Morning Briefing
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Trump Bucks Scientific Protocol, Calls For Further Splitting Up Childhood Vaccines
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White House Wants A Say On Who Wins NIH Biomedical Research Grants, Administration Officials Disclose
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Medical Debt Is Widespread Even Among Adults With Private Insurance: Study
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