The abortion law builds on legislation passed in 2010 that represented a major shift for a traditionally Catholic country, transforming Spain into one of the most progressive countries in Europe on reproductive rights. Spain's constitutional court last week rejected a challenge by the right-wing Popular Party against allowing abortions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The debate will be heated in Spain, I imagine, as the conservative opposition pushes back. My daughter had horrible menstrual pain during her adolescence and young adulthood. I'm certain that she would have benefitted from that time.
Trump's Big Beautiful Bill has some vocal and persistent resistance in the senate because of the Medicaid cuts.
I shared Senator Hawley's op ED earlier. I'll be interested in the senate hearings on this bill.
Medicaid is $600 billion federal, $300 billion state. The government has no right meddling in people's healthcare. Medicaid is on track to steal our children's future financially. Something needs to be done
I was thinking yesterday as we drove by a Davita dialysis center that people who can't afford diabetes and HTN control will increase ESRD , which is covered by Medicare.
I was thinking yesterday as we drove by a Davita dialysis center that people who can't afford diabetes and HTN control will increase ESRD , which is covered by Medicare.
Which also might be affected by the current proposal. Maybe the coverage for dialysis will survive
Among nonelderly adults with ESRD, gaps in access to care between those with private insurance and those with Medicaid were narrower in states with broader coverage. For a 50-year-old white woman, the access gap to the kidney transplant waiting list between Medicaid and private insurance decreased by 7.7 percentage points in high (>45%) versus low (<25%) Medicaid coverage states. Similarly, the access gap to transplantation decreased by 4.0 percentage points and the access gap to peritoneal dialysis decreased by 3.8 percentage points in high Medicaid coverage states. In conclusion, states with broader Medicaid coverage had a lower incidence of ESRD and smaller insurance-related access gaps.
Bold mine. Limiting access to affordable health care will not be good for Americans with chronic health problems. We have lots of data. Given that RFKjr is wanting to combat chronic disease it's surprising that he's OK with cutting access to affordable prevention and treatment of chronic issues for the working poor.
Less than two weeks until the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, Federal Emergency Management Agency acting Administrator David Richardson has rescinded the agency's strategic plan, a comprehensive policy document that outlines the disaster relief agency's priorities.
In a short memo sent to FEMA employees on Wednesday and obtained by CBS News, Richardson wrote, "The 2022-2026 FEMA Strategic Plan is hereby rescinded. The Strategic Plan contains goals and objectives that bear no connection to FEMA accomplishing its mission. This Summer, a new 2026-2030 strategy will be developed. The strategy will tie directly to FEMA executing its Mission Essential Tasks."
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The strategic plan, which was published in December 2021 under former administrator Deanne Criswell, was set to expire in 2026. The plan no longer appears on FEMA's website.
Criswell, in a news release at the time the plan was published, laid out three main goals for the agency: "Instill Equity as a Foundation of Emergency Management," "Lead Whole of Community in Climate Resilience" and "Promote and Sustain a Ready FEMA and Prepared Nation."
Well, that's the obvious problem. The Trump administration isn't interested in equity in emergency relief. They certainly don't want any talk about how to accommodate or consider climate change projections to mitigate individual risk.
I'm sure they'll manage just fine in the interim, without a strategic plan. Right?
Of course they are. It makes a nice distraction from trumps mental dysfunction. Whether you think it's deteriorating or same-old-same-old, there's no question that the word salad, flight of ideas, grandiosity, severe word-finding difficulty, and compulsive lying are concerning symptoms. There's more than one form of coverup. Accusation = confession.
More right-wing media attempting to distract from Trump.
"For weeks now, Americans — left, right and terminally online — have been obsessed with Joe Biden's fitness as president. The whispers about cognitive decline, once the province of Fox News pundits and dinner table cranks, have gone mainstream. And now, with the release of a couple of high-profile books and a report confirming that Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, the narrative has curdled into something that feels downright scandalous — maybe even conspiratorial. A full-blown cover-up.
Is that an understandable, if predictable, reaction? Sure. But let's not pretend this was some shocking plot twist. Biden has been aging in public like a banana on a dashboard for a decade — a fact that became undeniable after his infamous June 2024 debate with Donald Trump."
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And apparently Trump has not been aging in public like an old pumpkin, displaying his obvious mental illness and cognitive decline on the regular while also stirring up chaos and constitutional crisis like he's stirring a cup of tea. That explains it.
Political threats, lies and coercion will get this nonsense passed through the senate.
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The tax and spending bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday includes hundreds of provisions and would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the national debt by extending and expanding large tax cuts, partially offset by cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs. Below is a table that lists the 10-year cost or savings for nearly every provision, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.
The C.B.O. evaluation does not include several last-minute changes to the bill made by House Republicans to secure the support of some holdout members. We've highlighted the substantive changes. The bill now moves to the Senate, where it is expected to undergo significant alterations.
Let's see if senate Republicans go along with the deep cuts to Medicaid.
Speaking of YouTube, I'm watching a fascinating podcast on the Bulwark channel titled " David French's Stark Warning for Evangelicals" hosted by Michael Steele. Any practicing Christian interested in the relationship between church and state ought to check it out.
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Speaking of YouTube, I'm watching a fascinating podcast on the Bulwark channel titled " David French's Stark Warning for Evangelicals" hosted by Michael Steele. Any practicing Christian interested in the relationship between church and state ought to check it out.
They should also read Tim Alberta's book, The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory. He lays out a very compelling assessment of the politicization of the American Christian church.
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Medicaid is $600 billion federal, $300 billion state. The government has no right meddling in people's healthcare. Medicaid is on track to steal our children's future financially. Something needs to be done