/health/index.rss Read about health care; social welfare policy; public health; drug policy; Medicare; Social Security; reproductive freedom; sex positive policy; veterans; VA; en-us Copyright 2025 | casino world | All Rights Reserved Wed, 07 May 2025 09:30:00 -0000 David Dayen The cost-sharing requirements on beneficiaries above the federal poverty line is the most notable item in a menu of Medicaid cuts seen by the Prospect. /health/2025-05-07-medicaid-cuts-in-republican-bill-would-charge-poor-people/ /health/2025-05-07-medicaid-cuts-in-republican-bill-would-charge-poor-people/ Wed, 07 May 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Dayen-Medicaid cuts 050725.jpg Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Bryce Covert Delays in funding and new procedures to justify budgets have led to temporary closures and massive uncertainty for programs, workers, and families who rely on child care. /health/2025-05-07-congress-funded-head-start-trump-administration-holding-up-money/ /health/2025-05-07-congress-funded-head-start-trump-administration-holding-up-money/ Wed, 07 May 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Covert-Head Start 050725.jpg John McDonnell/AP Photo Janelle Carlson Avian flu outbreaks are exacerbated by the consolidated structure of the poultry industry. /health/2025-05-06-chickens-and-eggs-avian-flu/ /health/2025-05-06-chickens-and-eggs-avian-flu/ Tue, 06 May 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Carlson-Chickens and Eggs 050625.jpg Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images Jasper Craven Physician assistants could help with the Veterans Administration’s staffing challenges. But though the VA pays for training scholarships, PAs have found it hard to get work there. /health/2025-04-25-has-va-stymied-profession-it-helped-create-physician-assistants/ /health/2025-04-25-has-va-stymied-profession-it-helped-create-physician-assistants/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Craven-VA PAs 042525.jpg Carlos Kosienski/Sipa USA via AP Images Ryan Cooper America used to have the best medical research system in the world. Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds. /health/2025-04-23-trump-administration-objectively-pro-cancer/ /health/2025-04-23-trump-administration-objectively-pro-cancer/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Cancer research 042325.jpg Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto via AP David Dayen The so-called ‘pill penalty’ fix is a corporate favor designed to increase the period where prescriptions are immune from price negotiations. /health/2025-04-17-trumps-order-cut-drug-prices-would-raise-prices/ /health/2025-04-17-trumps-order-cut-drug-prices-would-raise-prices/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Dayen-Drug pricing EO 041725.jpg Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP Emma Janssen SNAP cuts are ‘going to have a massive shock wave across the country, and everybody will feel it.’ /health/2025-04-11-republican-budget-plan-snatch-food-hungry-children-snap-food-stamps/ /health/2025-04-11-republican-budget-plan-snatch-food-hungry-children-snap-food-stamps/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Janssen-SNAP 041125.jpg Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Ryan Cooper Private insurance companies just got a massive boost to their payments through the program, while DOGE fires the people responsible for oversight. /health/2025-04-11-trump-opens-door-more-medicare-advantage-fraud/ /health/2025-04-11-trump-opens-door-more-medicare-advantage-fraud/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Cooper-Medicare Advantage 041125.jpg Syndi Pilar/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Images Ryan Cooper The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits. /health/2025-04-07-mad-king-trumps-war-on-the-troops/ /health/2025-04-07-mad-king-trumps-war-on-the-troops/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Veterans cuts 040725.jpg Robyn Stevens Brody/Sipa USA via AP Images Jaelyn Rodriguez State reproductive rights advocates view a stockpile as one of a number of ways to protect access. /health/2025-04-05-new-jersey-abortion-protections-mifepristone/ /health/2025-04-05-new-jersey-abortion-protections-mifepristone/ Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Rodriguez-NJ abortion 040525.jpg Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Images Nic Suarez As access to gambling expands, concerns about addiction among young people have increased. /health/2025-03-31-battling-gamification-in-virginia/ /health/2025-03-31-battling-gamification-in-virginia/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Suarez-Kids and gaming 033125.jpg Wayne Parry/AP Photo Francesca Fiorentini A MAHA mom’s guide /health/2025-03-28-how-to-throw-measles-party-to-remember/ /health/2025-03-28-how-to-throw-measles-party-to-remember/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0000 APR25 Parting Shot.jpg David Dayen His nominee to head the SSA backs technology over people, and DOGE over seniors’ needs. /health/2025-03-26-trumps-fox-in-the-social-security-henhouse/ /health/2025-03-26-trumps-fox-in-the-social-security-henhouse/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Dayen-Fiserv 032625.jpg Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images Maureen Tkacik Teri Buhl More than a dozen hospitals employing tens of thousands have either shut this year or are on the brink, while two shadowy figures prop up their owners’ stock. /health/2025-03-18-hospital-empire-closing-its-doors-stock-on-a-tear-mpt/ /health/2025-03-18-hospital-empire-closing-its-doors-stock-on-a-tear-mpt/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:30:00 -0000 Tkacik-Buhl-MPT 031825.jpg Charles Krupa/AP Photo Daniel Boguslaw A new report chronicles ten years of consolidation. /health/2025-03-18-private-equity-vultures-care-facilities-disabled/ /health/2025-03-18-private-equity-vultures-care-facilities-disabled/ Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0000 Boguslaw-PE care homes 031825.jpg Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Suzanne Gordon Steve Early The VA secretary is targeting the wrong contracts to eliminate waste and inefficiency. /health/2025-03-12-doug-collins-cancel-culture-veterans-affairs/ /health/2025-03-12-doug-collins-cancel-culture-veterans-affairs/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Gordon-Early-VA contracts 031225.jpg J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Robert Kuttner The sneak attack on Social Security creates new vulnerability for Elon Musk and for the entire Trump project of destroying government. /health/2025-03-11-trumps-third-rail-social-security/ /health/2025-03-11-trumps-third-rail-social-security/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:15:00 -0000 Kuttner-Social Security 031125.jpg Robyn Stevens Brody/Sipa USA via AP Images Maureen Tkacik While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices. /health/2025-03-07-did-luigi-save-unitedhealth-case/ /health/2025-03-07-did-luigi-save-unitedhealth-case/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:30:00 -0000 Tkacik-UnitedHealth 030725.jpg Illustration by Jandos Rothstein David Dayen A timely research paper looking at SSA staff cuts in the 1980s found that it led to tens of thousands of Americans not getting their earned benefits. /health/2025-03-06-how-social-security-administration-cuts-affect-you/ /health/2025-03-06-how-social-security-administration-cuts-affect-you/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:30:00 -0000 Dayen-SSA 030625.jpg Jon Elswick/AP Photo David Dayen An agency-wide email announces the organizational restructuring and encourages employees to retire or resign. /health/2025-02-27-significant-workforce-reductions-social-security-administration/ /health/2025-02-27-significant-workforce-reductions-social-security-administration/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:15:00 -0000 AP21285570532112rs.jpg Jenny Kane/AP Photo David Dayen Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation. /health/social-security-administration-could-cut-half-its-workforce/ /health/social-security-administration-could-cut-half-its-workforce/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:00:00 -0000 AP20295070284318.jpg John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx Ryan Cooper Bird flu is rampaging among chickens and cattle, while Trump and Musk gut the agencies responsible for stopping it. /health/2025-02-26-trump-musk-own-bird-flu-epidemic/ /health/2025-02-26-trump-musk-own-bird-flu-epidemic/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Cooper-Bird flu 022625.jpg Andres Kudacki/AP Photo Suzanne Gordon Steve Early Though not as prominent as the NIH, VA researchers play a major role in advancing basic health science. Hundreds of projects have been cut. /health/2025-02-25-va-research-funding-slashed/ /health/2025-02-25-va-research-funding-slashed/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Gordon-Early-VA research 022525.jpg Alexandra Buxbaum/Sipa USA via AP Images Suzanne Gordon Steve Early Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk. /health/2025-02-19-va-secretary-doge-middle-finger-to-vets/ /health/2025-02-19-va-secretary-doge-middle-finger-to-vets/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Gordon-Early-Doug Collins VA 021925.jpg Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP Images Maureen Tkacik Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives. /health/2025-02-14-doge-czars-plan-to-loot-medicare/ /health/2025-02-14-doge-czars-plan-to-loot-medicare/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Tkacik-Brad Smith DOGE 021425.jpg Alex Brandon/AP Photo Paul Starr Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died. /health/2025-02-12-christopher-jencks-exemplary-radical-skeptic/ /health/2025-02-12-christopher-jencks-exemplary-radical-skeptic/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:30:00 -0000 Starr-Jencks obit 021225.jpg Ann Baynes Coiro Emma Janssen It turns out that you can’t just turn the government off and then back on again. /health/2025-02-12-trump-attacks-child-care-for-most-vulnerable-head-start/ /health/2025-02-12-trump-attacks-child-care-for-most-vulnerable-head-start/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Janssen-Head Start 021225.jpg Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo Daniel Boguslaw The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month. /health/2025-02-12-aging-members-congress-office-of-the-attending-physician/ /health/2025-02-12-aging-members-congress-office-of-the-attending-physician/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 Boguslaw-Office of the Attending Physician 021225.jpg Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP Gabrielle Gurley With Medicaid at risk, state officials could help put the brakes on DOGE and the chaos generated in Washington, but only with some decisive pushback. /health/2025-02-06-federal-funding-must-flow-medicaid/ /health/2025-02-06-federal-funding-must-flow-medicaid/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:15:00 -0000 Gurley-DOGE Medicaid 020625.jpg Eric Gay/AP Photo Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera Sergio Chapa The American dream collides with tragedy in a historic, largely immigrant community in Philadelphia that’s one of the epicenters of the nation’s fentanyl crisis. /health/2025-02-03-onion-of-kensington-fentanyl-philadelphia/ /health/2025-02-03-onion-of-kensington-fentanyl-philadelphia/ Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000 FEB25 Correa-Cabrera-Chapa home.jpg