20 Million People Would Lose Health Coverage Under Donald Trump Presidency

The result would be an estimated 45.1 million uninsured people in 2018 under Trump — an increase of 20.2 million, reversing the coverage gains under Obama.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Aston, Pa. A new study that examines some major health care proposals from the presidential candidates finds that Donald Trump would cause about 20 million to lose coverage while Hillary Clinton would provide coverage for an additional 9 million people.

WASHINGTON  — A new study that examines some major health care proposals from the presidential candidates finds that Donald Trump would cause about 20 million to lose coverage while Hillary Clinton would provide coverage for an additional 9 million people. The 2016 presidential campaign has brought voters to a crossroads on health care yet

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Florida Governor Uses Office To Bully Constituent For Calling Him A**hole

Politicians being assholes is nothing new. In fact, at this point we’ve pretty much come to expect it. ‘Asshole’ is almost a term of endearment. If our politicians are just assholes and not also war criminals and corrupt corporatists, it’s actually a rare surprise.

Jake Anderson
By Jake Anderson
Florida Gov. Rick Scott speaks with reporters of the Associated Press in Miami, Fla. Friday Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYzgTLoQjY In America, there seems to be a kind of paralysis when it comes to publicly heckling and lambasting elected officials. When the population of Iceland learned from the Panama Papers that its Prime Minister was involved in shady bank dealings, they feverishly protested in massive numbers until he

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Why Don’t We Have Single Payer Health Care? Ask Medical Lobbyists

The health care industry was at its most generous in 2009, when there were eight lobbyists for every member of Congress.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Roberta Crawford, 89, wears a sticker in support of single payer health care

MINNEAPOLIS --- When it comes to lobbying Washington, no single industry can match the lobbying power of the health care industry. The medical field, from pharmaceutical companies to doctors’ associations, has already spent over $120 million on lobbying this year. The influence of the health sector on the U.S. government is not a new one -- the

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Women Aren’t The Only Texans Grappling With Changes To Health Care Access

Part II: Marginalized and pathologized by Republican politicians, LGBT Texans face special challenges in finding access to reproductive health care.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Mark Phariss, Victor Holmes

In Part 1, MintPress News looked at barriers to abortion access in Texas under the Texas Omnibus Abortion Bill (HB2) and how the pro-abortion rights reproductive justice movement seeks to help Texans. AUSTIN, Texas --- Both sides of the conflict over the Texas Omnibus Abortion Law (HB2) link abortion to issues surrounding sexual orientation and

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Indian Country Grapples With Health Funding Shortfalls, Non-Payment

Slowly but surely, tribal governments — especially those in Alaska — are receiving millions of dollars in decades of unpaid contract costs from the Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Christine Graef
By Christine Graef
Native Americans

WASHINGTON --- Tribal health programs working to serve native people are not seeing funding of administrative costs keeping pace with need, and the Indian Health Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs owe millions to tribal governments. “The federal government has broken too many promises with tribes and though we have more work to do, I am

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How The Veterans Affairs Patient Load Exceeded Its Capabilities

The Veterans Affairs health system gravely lacks the resources to attend to the needs of the nation’s 22 million veterans — but what are the costs and is there a solution?

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Vietnam veteran Louis Albin, who served in the U.S. Navy, listens during a town hall meeting at American Legion Post 1 in Phoenix concerning health-care issues at the Phoenix VA facilities.(AP/Ralph Freso)

Approximately 1 in every 15 Americans is a veteran, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. For most of the 22 million Americans who have sacrificed their health and livelihoods in defense of the nation, the Veterans Health Administration and the Veterans Benefits Administration are critical lifelines. For a large number of veterans,

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