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Section: Policies
Policies
Transgender Health Care Endangered
A few years ago, Stephan Rivera, a 31-year-old native of the Bronx, New York, consulted two doctors about his prospects for âtop surgery,â a double mastectomy. âI was like, I really just want to cut them off,â he recalls. Although he was generally content âworking as a teacherâs aide in a public school and living with [âŚ]
April 4, 2018
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NIH Rejected Alcohol Ad Study during Quest for Industry Funds
Itâs rare for officials at the National Institutes of Health to summon university scientists from hundreds of miles away. So when Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston University and a colleague got the call to meet with the director of NIHâs Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, he said, âI knew we were in trouble.â He [âŚ]
April 4, 2018
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Microplastics Found in Nearly All Bottled Water
Drining from a plastic water bottle likely means ingesting microplastic particles, a new study claims, prompting fresh concerns â and calls for scientific research â on the possible health implications of widespread plastics pollution. A study carried out on more than 250 water bottles sourced from 11 brands in nine different countries revealed the Microplastic contamination [âŚ]
April 4, 2018
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New Iowa Law Allows Plans that Skirt ACA
Iowa will allow people to buy a cheaper form of health insurance that skirts Affordable Care Act rules, under legislation signed into law Monday by the stateâs Republican governor. The law will allow Iowaâs Farm Bureau to partner with a designated insurance company to offer so-called health benefit plans that technically arenât defined as insurance. [âŚ]
April 4, 2018
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VA Choice Could Open Way to Privatization
For the last year, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin insisted the VA would not be privatized on his watch. Now, thanks to a Koch-supported coup at the top of the second-largest department in government, his watch has ended â and the battle over privatization persists. For years the Koch brothers have been hovering around the [âŚ]
April 4, 2018
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First Responders Improving Interactions for People with Autism
First responders areare increasingly likely to respond to an incident involving a person with autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the fastest-growing developmental disability affecting about 1 in 68 children in the United States. On a global scale approximately 1 percent of the world population has ASD. How can first responders adapt their response when [âŚ]
April 4, 2018
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Sewage Leaks Plague Elite Washington Hospital
âA black, grainy foul-smelling substanceâ coated the floor of an operating room at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, which also suffered from at least one âactive leakâ of sewage, according to a review by the District of Columbia health department last August. That health department report was cited in a lawsuit filed against the hospital by the [âŚ]
April 2, 2018
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Soda Industry Fighting Back on Local Taxes
Watch out public health advocates â as soda tax campaigns are bubbling up in cities across the nation to combat obesity, diabetes and other serious health conditions â the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy. A state bill banning localities from taxing food and beverages came out of nowhere in Michigan [âŚ]
April 2, 2018
Policies
States Need More Rules to Protect Insurance Market
Without more rules in place, state regulators wonât be able to fully protect the individual health insurance market from adverse selection when the individual mandate penalty ends in 2019 and if the Trump administration expands association health plans (AHPs) and short-term catastrophic plans, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. States can âensure a level playing [âŚ]
April 2, 2018
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Sanders: âWe Know Nothing About VA Pickâ
Sen. Bernie Sanders wouldnât commit to supporting President Donald Trumpâs pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, on Sunday. In an interview on CBSâ âFace the Nation,â the Vermont independent noted that Jackson, Trumpâs personal physician, is a virtual unknown on veterans issues. He also expressed concerns the Trump administration [âŚ]
April 2, 2018
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Institute Supports Conscience Rules in Healthcare
First Liberty Institute attorneys today submitted public comments on behalf of several religious ministries in support of new United States Health and Human Services (âHHSâ) guidelines that ensure the protection of conscience rights for health care professionals. âWithout conscience protections, health care professionals across America risk discrimination for refusing to perform, facilitate, or refer for procedures that [âŚ]
March 28, 2018
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Why Take the Risk of Skipping Insurance?
In tiny Marion, North Carolina, the Buchanans decided that $1,800 a month was too much to pay for health insurance, and are going without it for the first time in their lives. In Harahan, one bend of the Mississippi river up from New Orleans, the Owenses looked at their doubling insurance premiums and decided no [âŚ]
March 28, 2018
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Insurance Spurs Increase in Sex-Change Surgery
When Gaines Blasdel decided in 2012 that he wanted surgery so his physical identity would match the male character heâd long had in his head, his health insurance wouldnât cover it â not even student coverage at Hampshire College, which he admits with a laugh is the âsocial justice warrior capital of the world.â Blasdel [âŚ]
March 28, 2018
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Mental Health Experts Condemn Transgender Ban
On Friday night, President Trump announced that he would once again attempt to ban transgender people from serving in the military, based on recommendations that their health concerns undermine military readiness. Since then, the nationâs two biggest mental health organizations have come forward to condemn that decision. The American Psychiatric Association responded Saturday with a statement from APA CEO [âŚ]
March 28, 2018
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AP: Promise for Vetsâ Private Care Deadlocked
President Donald Trump is holding out the promise of better health care for veterans through an imminent expansion of private-sector services outside the Department of Veterans Affairs system. The problem: His campaign priority remains deadlocked in Congress as his VA secretary struggles with rebellion inside the agency. During the presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly pledged to [âŚ]
March 27, 2018
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HHS Website Drops Lesbian, Bisexual Resources
The Department of Health and Human Services quietly removed lesbian and bisexual content from its womenâs health website last fall, according to a new report from the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit government watchdog group. The findings, released on Wednesday, noted that the HHS-operated Office of Womenâs Health (OWH) âremoved a webpage with extensive information about lesbian and bisexual health, [âŚ]
March 27, 2018
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Democrats See Chance to Improve Obamacare
President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, 2010 â eight years ago Friday. But this anniversary feels different from the ones that came before it. In the past, Democrats have been preoccupied with implementing the law and fending off efforts to destroy it. That was especially true last year, when [âŚ]
March 27, 2018
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Wendy Williams Talks About Gravesâ Disease
Over the last 10 years, Wendy Williamsâ popular daytime show has been known for discussing some of the entertainment industryâs hottest topics. But after she fainted live on the air during a show last October, her health became the most popular topic of them all. In a new interview with Good Morning America, Williamsâopened up about her battle [âŚ]
March 21, 2018
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