#healthcare

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"Politically, these two states haven’t had much in common for decades. And in this polarized era, those differences are increasingly reflected in the laws and guidelines local leaders are enacting, resulting in wildly different policy realities for Americans depending solely on whether they live in a blue state or a red state."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/policy-divide-blue-red-states-keeps-widening-rcna230162

If you live in BC please please take a moment to tell WorkSafe BC that it is of life and death importance that healthcare standards reflect the info available in 2025 from the CSA, and not from 20 freaking 18

Input stops this Friday, Sept 26th - it's urgent!

More info and links to where you can give input: https://zeroes.ca/@DoNoHarmBC/115239899816344735

Please! This advocacy could save lives!

  • and shorten hospital wait times, reduce healthcare worker attrition, the burden on society, and so on. But most importantly, respirators in healthcare will directly save lives. Share the link https://zeroes.ca/@DoNoHarmBC/115239899816344735 for reach, too!

"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirements-costs-gao-9cf889d1d931f2f0bd9900f50056f9af

"Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, on Wednesday signed into law a bill that lets people sue anyone suspected of manufacturing, distributing or mailing abortion pills to or from Texas. The first-of-its-kind law is almost certain to dramatically escalate the state-by-state showdown over abortion laws in the post Roe v Wade United States..."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/18/abortion-pill-texas-law

"House Republicans are working to avert a government shutdown with a Friday vote on legislation that funds federal agencies through November 21 and boosts money for security for government officials. But few, if any, Democrats are expected to go along. Their fight to inject health care into the funding debate could mean Congress could fail to approve spending legislation before the September 30 deadline."

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5545929/house-stopgap-funding-bill-government-shutdown

"States and medical societies that long worked in concert with the CDC are breaking with federal recommendations, saying they no longer have faith in them amid the turmoil and Kennedy’s criticism of vaccines. Roughly seven months after Kennedy’s nomination was confirmed, they’re rushing to draft or release their own vaccine recommendations, while new groups are forming to issue immunization guidance and advice."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/cdc-acip-vaccine-recommendations-states-medical-societies-insurance-patchwork/

“We need help up here, and cutting funding is not going to help us,” said Debra Lupeika, associate dean for rural and community-based education at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine and a family physician at the tribal Rolling Hills Clinic in Red Bluff, about 40 miles northwest of Chico. “We are in dire straits. We need doctors.”

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/rural-northern-california-health-care-shortages-residency-program-funding-cuts/

"...prolonging administrative leave past a few days is regarded as “just not an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars,” one senior NIH official told me. And what’s played out recently—leaving dozens of people on administrative leave for months, in the absence of alleged misconduct and without a clear path toward resolution—is unheard of, a senior NIH official who has been on administrative leave since the spring told me."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hhs-officials-being-paid-six-110000245.html

"Clinics, advocacy groups and individuals who share abortion-related content online say they are seeing informational posts being taken down even if the posts don’t clearly violate the platforms’ policies...the removals have a chilling effect even if they are later reversed, and navigating platforms’ complex systems of appeals is often difficult, if not impossible."

https://apnews.com/article/social-media-abortion-censorship-eff-a71965f86b40912db10fad6d26bcdd95