Millions of Americans Are About to Get Kicked Off Medicaid
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Starting tomorrow, states will begin to terminate health care coverage for people who no longer qualify for Medicaid, marking the end to a pandemic-era rule that automatically renewed coverage for Medicaid recipients even if they were no longer eligible. An estimated…
The Latest Casualties of Idaho’s Abortion Ban: Babies
Matt York, File/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.An Idaho hospital is ending its labor and delivery services in the wake of a Texas-style, near-total abortion ban signed into state law last year. Citing the state’s “legal and political climate,” Bonner General Health plans to…
Mike Flynn and MAGA Activists Wage War Against a Florida Hospital
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before last year, the public monthly meetings of the board of Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, were sleepy affairs, typically drawing just a handful of attendees. The hospital, a 98-year-old public healthcare system that serves more than a…
Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce that would make it a felony…
Biden Proposes Raising Taxes on People Making Over $400,000 a Year to Fund Medicare
Patrick Semansky/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a proposal to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 annually in order to continue funding Medicare, marking a new front in the White House’s efforts to position itself as…
The Under-the-Radar Legal Battle Protecting Health Care for Trans People
Angela Weiss/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Shauntae Anderson lived for the weekends. Growing up Black and transgender in a small West Virginia city in the 1990s, she spent a lot of time alone, hiding her self-knowledge from her mom and coping with ridicule…