#Healthcare Policy

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 AP report: Trump administration admits a glaring error in its New York health fraud accusations — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The error, which the administration admitted first to The Associated Press, prompted health analysts to question how many of the Republican administration's sweeping anti-fraud efforts around the coun...

  Related: #Government Accountability, #Political Controversy
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration admits to using skewed statistics in New York Medicaid probe — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, justified his fraud investigation into New York's Medicaid by using inaccurate data.

  Related: #Political Accountability, #Federal-State Relations
• 🇺🇸 The WGA’s Tentative Deal Gets Writers a Big Boost with Healthcare — and Sets the Tone for the Other Guilds — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Now working under a four-year deal rather than three, the writers got some much-needed healthcare relief, along with added residuals and protections.

  Related: #Labor Relations, #Entertainment Industry
• 🇺🇸 Trump administration shifts focus of Title X program away from birth control — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Health clinics have received Title X funding, following a delay. But the Trump administration will shift the program's focus away from providing hormonal birth control next year.

  Related: #Reproductive Rights, #Federal Funding
• 🇺🇸 What banking can teach health care about protecting patient data — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The culture and expectations surrounding health data privacy continue to lag behind those that define the financial system.

  Related: #Data Privacy, #Regulatory Compliance
• 🇺🇸 Supreme Court ruling makes vulnerable children, and therapists, safer in Colorado — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Therapy should be guided by clients’ values and sound clinical practice, not government mandate.

  Related: #Judicial Ruling, #LGBTQ+ Rights, #Free Speech
• 🇺🇸 We Are on the Cusp of a Revolution in Rare Disease Treatment — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  We can’t let the most important medical achievement of a decade slip through our fingers.

  Related: #Medical Innovation, #Patient Access
• 🇺🇸 Medicaid work rules will stress states' staffing capacity — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Some states already don't have enough staff to quickly process Medicaid applications and answer enrollees' phone calls. Researchers say they may not be prepared to handle new Medicaid work rules, pred...

  Related: #Government Administration, #Social Welfare
• 🇺🇸 Wes Moore criticizes Trump for talking about Medicare cuts — 05/04/2026 [USA]

  "We don't want to be fighting foreign wars while you're taking away our health care," Maryland's governor said.

  Related: #Federal vs. State Funding, #Political Criticism
• 🇺🇸 Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady — 24/03/2026 [USA]

  The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025.

  Related: #Abortion Access
• 🇺🇸 Children on the transplant wait list are dying — Congress can save them — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  Children still account for the most deaths on the waitlist — an unnecessary result of complex guidelines that disadvantage the youngest candidates and a dearth of policy to regulate technological adva...

  Related: #Pediatric Health
• 🇺🇸 You’ve Lost Your Health Insurance. It Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise. — 21/03/2026 [USA]

  You would think you’d get texts, emails, phone calls and letters if your insurer was about to drop you. But you may be wrong.

  Related: #Insurance Coverage
• 🇺🇸 Federal judge rules RFK Jr. overreached in restricting trans health care to minors — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} View Online Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Federal judge rules RFK Jr. overreached in restricting trans healthcare to minors U.S. District Judg...

  Related: #Transgender Rights, #Judicial Review, #Executive Authority
• 🇺🇸 White House expands TrumpRx with three new drugs — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The White House said Friday it’s adding three drugs for diabetes and lung disease to the self-pay platform TrumpRx, as the administration works to expand the site as part of its push to lower drug pri...

  Related: #Government Programs
• 🇬🇧 RFK Jr overstepped in declaring gender-affirming treatments unsafe, judge rules — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Judge rules that Trump’s health secretary did not go through proper procedures when issuing declaration</p><p>Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health secretary, overstepped his power when he declared that ...

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 Judge: RFK Jr. overreached in push to restrict gender-affirming for minors — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge in Oregon ruled on Thursday that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has overreached in his push to restrict gender-affirming care for minors, according to ...

  Related: #Legal Ruling
• 🇺🇸 How New Mexico Became an Obamacare Success Story — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Affordable Care Act enrollment has dropped across the United States since the enhanced federal subsidies expired. But New Mexico has record numbers of people signing up.

  Related: #State Success
• 🇺🇸 Admin touts TrumpRX success: it's a quick fix, not real progress! — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  A new analysis from The New York Times, along with German outlets NDR and WDR, took a closer look at the administration’s new drug pricing platform, TrumpRx. What they found is that while some prices ...

  Related: #Political Rhetoric
• 🇺🇸 9% of ACA enrollees go uninsured after enhanced subsidies expire, poll finds — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Many Americans face financial pressures after Affordable Care Act enhanced premium subsidies expired at the end of 2025.

  Related: #Insurance Coverage
• 🇺🇸 HHS investigating 13 states for 'coercing' healthcare providers to provide abortions — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that it is launching investigations into 13 states for violating a federal health refusal clause and "coercing" healthcare entities in...

  Related: #Abortion Rights
• 🇬🇧 Alberta seeks to set limits on use of medically assisted dying — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  The Canadian province has proposed legislation that will limit its use solely to end-of-life circumstances.

  Related: #End-of-Life Care
• 🇺🇸 TrumpRx isn't doing much for drug prices. What would it take to change that? — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  Americans are furious about drug prices.

  Related: #Drug Pricing
• 🇺🇸 How TrumpRx Drug Prices Compare With Those in Other Countries — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The TrumpRx website claims to offer the best prices for medications. Here’s where Americans still pay more — and much more.

  Related: #Drug Pricing
• 🇬🇧 Scottish parliament votes against legalising assisted dying — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>MSPs reject bill after concerted campaign to block it and despite amendments intended to placate critics</p><p>The Scottish parliament has voted against legalising assisted dying after critics and ...

  Related: #Ethical Debate
• 🇺🇸 In Tense Meeting, Dr. Oz Pressed Medical Societies on Trans Care for Teens — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Most groups defended their support for medical intervention. But the Society for Plastic Surgeons broke with the consensus.

  Related: #Transgender Rights
• 🇬🇧 Plans to cut NHS international workforce appear overambitious, say MPs — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Health service in England has saved more than £14bn hiring from overseas, report says, as doubt is cast on aim to reduce international recruitment to 10%</p><p>Ministers’ plans to cut the internati...

  Related: #Workforce Shortage
• 🇺🇸 'Can't find a dime' for health care: Democrats link cost of Iran war to domestic priorities — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Democrats spent much of last year attacking the GOP over spending cuts to health programs such as Obamacare and Medicaid. Now they're tying that fight to the debate over the war in Iran, saying the co...

  Related: #Military Spending, #Political Strategy
• 🇺🇸 How Vance and Oz can fix Medicaid fraud — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  If Vice President JD Vance and Dr. Mehmet Oz are serious about restoring fiscal credibility to entitlement programs, Medicaid is where reform must begin.

  Related: #Fraud Prevention
• 🇺🇸 West Virginia can ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, US court rules — 10/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Transgender Rights
• 🇺🇸 Oz: Millions may be falsely enrolled in ObamaCare — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), claimed in an interview published Monday that millions of people could potentially be falsely enrolled in Affordable ...

  Related: #Enrollment Fraud