News | Environment & Health Almost 7 Million People Are Predicted to Lose Medicaid Due to “Technicalities” Of the 15 million expected to lose coverage, nearly 7 million may lose it solely due to clerical or logistical problems. By Tyler Walicek , Truthout June 29, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Racial Trauma Could Be Factor in the 80 Percent of Black Women With Fibroids The lack of scientific consensus has led some to posit that it's due to the chronic stress of racial discrimination. By Akilah Wise , CapitalB June 19, 2023 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights New Ohio Gender-Affirming Care Ban Requires Erroneous Mental Health Screening This provision ignores scientific consensus that conditions like depression don't "cause" someone to be trans. By Erin Reed , ErinInTheMorning June 17, 2023 Truthout
News | Reproductive Rights Number of Legal Abortions Fell by 94K in States With Bans Since “Dobbs” The data suggests there were tens of thousands of people forced to carry a pregnancy due to a lack of abortion access. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 16, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health More Than 1.2M Patients Have Been Booted Off Medicaid. Most Are Still Eligible. An estimated 76 percent of those disenrolled were kicked off for “procedural reasons” like completing paperwork late. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams June 16, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Nearly 6 in 10 People With Health Insurance Have Had Coverage Issue in Past Year The American health insurance system leaves both uninsured and insured people to languish, polling suggests. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 15, 2023 Truthout
News | Environment & Health Merck Sues Government, Saying Plan to Lower Medicare Drug Prices Is “Extortion” The company claims that the plan to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices violates the First and Fifth Amendments. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout June 6, 2023 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights Louisiana Republicans Double Down on Anti-Trans Bills, But Youth Are Resisting A previously killed ban on gender-affirming care for minors was resurrected and has advanced with other bills. By Frances Madeson , Truthout June 6, 2023 Truthout
News | Politics & Elections DeSantis Rakes in Big Donor Cash as 250,000 Floridians Get Kicked Off Medicaid Forty-four percent of those who lost coverage were removed for procedural reasons like not returning paperwork on time. By Jake Johnson , CommonDreams June 5, 2023 Truthout
News | LGBTQ Rights To Protect Trans Health Care, We Need to Fight Bigotry — and Win Medicare for All Trans people are up against bigoted legislation, bureaucratic red tape, and the U.S.’s cruel lack of health care access. By Tyler Walicek , Truthout June 4, 2023 Truthout