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“Young people don’t have quality access to mental health care, depending on where you live. Reproductive care is being diminished and now their friends, the people that they’re going to school with, because of immigration status, now may not be able to have access to health care at all.” –Kristin McGuire
Weaponizing Health Care –
The Trump Rule Targeting
Young Immigrants
Featuring Kristin McGuire
Executive Director, Young Invincibles
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Breaking News in Healthcare Reform
“…most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs the GOP has focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps.”
As GOP Pushes Spending Cuts, Many Say Medicaid and Food Stamps are Underfunded: AP-NORC Poll
Associated Press | Linley Sanders | June 16, 2025
“The decision to freeze Medicaid enrollment highlights Democratic state leaders’ struggle to protect progressive priorities against budget challenges.”
California Legislature OKs Proposal to Freeze Health Care Access for Some Immigrants
Associated Press | Trân Nguyễn | June 13, 2025
“Trump’s legislation may truly be enormous, but it is far from pretty — it stigmatizes the wrong people, slashes the wrong programs and will hurt far more Americans than it helps.”
Trump’s Medicaid and SNAP Red Tape Will Devastate Millions of Americans.
The Hill | Taryn Morrissey | June 12, 2025
“A lot of patients will just become uninsured…. They’ll then wait until their health conditions become serious, and finally go straight to [Mee Memorial’s] emergency department, where by law they cannot be turned away even if they can’t pay anything. The hospital absorbs the cost.”
‘Patients Will Suffer. Patients Will Die.’ Why California’s Rural Hospitals Are Flatlining.
Capital & Main | Mark Kreidler | June 12, 2025
“While Medicare Advantage provides excellent coverage if you never get sick, this insurance can quickly become a precursor to medical bankruptcy if the patient develops a deadly disease, a highly probable outcome when you consider that nearly 40 percent of Americans get cancer in their lifetime.”
Here’s Why Medicare Advantage Fails America’s Elderly
The Hill | Pramod Pinnamaneni, Nitya Thummalachetty | June 11, 2025
“…proposals in the House GOP tax and spending cuts bill could lead to a loss of health insurance for 11 million people enrolled in Medicaid or Affordable Care Act coverage and jeopardize loans for half of medical students.This is the first time in recent history when all three missions of academic medicine – research, education and patient care – are threatened….”
Research Cuts Pose ‘Existential Threat’ to Academic Medicine and Put Nation’s Health at Risk, New Report Says
CNN | Asuka Koda | June 11, 2025
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday announced eight members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, populated mainly by critics of the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine policies or those who don’t specialize in vaccine science.”
Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Contains Skeptics, Nonspecialists
Roll Call | Lia DeGroot, Sandhya Raman, Jessie Hellmann | June 11, 2025
“The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has found that Medicare Advantage has never saved money compared to Traditional Medicare.”
Cutting Medicare Advantage Theft is Not a Medicare Cut
Center for Economic and Policy | Brandon Novick | June 10, 2025
“An effort to get savings from reforms to popular Medicare Advantage plans is failing to gain ground in the Senate.”
Republicans Back Off Medicare Changes in GOP Megabill
Politico | Jordain Carney, Robert King | June 10, 2025
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