Healthcare

A woman looks at a pill used for medication abortions, displayed on a phone.

On Heels of SB 8, Texas Poised to Restrict Access to Medication Abortions

With extreme abortion bans likely to spread across the U.S., one rights advocate said the medical community will have to "drastically shift the way people access abortion, on their own terms."

Julia Conley · Sep 3, 2021

It's Time to Build American Health Care Back Better

Please contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to vote for the Build Back Better bill with all the health care provisions included, because care can't wait and neither can we.

Laura Packard · Sep 1, 2021

National Laws Needed, Say Defenders of Women, After SCOTUS Attack on Roe

"Democrats have the power right now to do something about the Texas abortion ban, and every other far-right power grab," said one observer. "They are not helpless bystanders."

Julia Conley · Sep 1, 2021

Taryn Bailey, a 16-year-old in Arizona, is among those featured in a new ad campaign calling on lawmakers to improve home and community-based services. (Photo: BeAHero)

'Home Care Can't Wait': Ady Barkan, ACLU Target Sinema for Abandoning People With Disabilities

Healthcare advocates are fighting for Congress to include $400 billion for home and community-based services in the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

Kenny Stancil · Aug 27, 2021

A patient receives dental care at a free rural clinic.

Dental, Insurance Lobbyists Quietly Target Democrats' Medicare Expansion Plan

Insurance companies' opposition to comprehensive coverage, said one lawmaker, is "all the more reason, in my opinion, that we need to do it."

Julia Conley · Aug 27, 2021

Publicly-Owned Generic Drugs Are the Answer

Bold policies could have saved America's largest generic drug plant, but it's never too late to start putting communities first.

Dana Brown · Aug 26, 2021

A woman is treated at Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine.

Once Secret Prices Expose 'Irrational and Cruel' Nature of US Healthcare System

While the pricing data is unlikely to lower costs, said one critic, it may help "produce the political will for real reform."

Julia Conley · Aug 23, 2021

Unvaccinated Covid-19 Patients Strain Alabama Hospitals Amid Warning of 'Potentially Apocalyptic' Crisis

One doctor said that "this could have been prevented had we gotten vaccination numbers to higher levels."

Brett Wilkins · Aug 19, 2021

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces the reopening of more Texas businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic at a press conference at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on May 18, 2020. (Photo: Lynda M. Gonzalez-Pool via Getty Images)

After Banning Mask and Vaccine Mandates, GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Gets Covid-19

"Abbott will have access to the best healthcare, the best doctors, the best treatments… The kids who he refuses to protect from Covid in his state's schools? Not so much."

Jessica Corbett · Aug 17, 2021