Category: Legislation
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Trump Attacks on Healthcare in California
Seniors will soon find out about their premiums rising beyond rates of inflation in 2026. Comprising 11% of the CA population, 4.36 million seniors aged 65+ are among the most vulnerable members facing these attacks on healthcare. In CA, while comprising 15.63 of the state’s population, 40% of… -> -> ->
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US Domestic Policy Dashboard
Explore how US domestic policies across all three branches of government impact public health outcomes. Track policy changes, funding decisions, and their real-world effects on American communities. https://www.impactcounter.com/domestic-policy When you look at the Project 2025 Administration in total in terms of impact on human lives domestically and internationally,… -> -> ->
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A Call for Health Care Desegregation
AMA Journal of Ethics, January 2023AMA Journal of Ethics ®January 2023, Volume 25, Number 1: E3-6Denisse Rojas Marquez, MD, MPP and Hazel Lever, MD, MPH https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/call-health-care-desegregation/2023-01 Continue reading here: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/call-health-care-desegregation/2023-01 -> -> ->
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Take Action to Stop Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
From a public healthcare standpoint, this bill will cause harm to millions. It will also consolidate a new level of fascist repression and may be the final undoing of Constitutional Democracy. Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, H.R. 1, narrowly passed in the U.S. House of… -> -> ->
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CalCare incentivizes targeting of underserved communities
Under CalCare, provider incentives for serving underserved and rural communities would be structured to address both workforce shortages and care accessibility gaps. While the bill does not specify each incentive in exhaustive detail, it authorizes the CalCare Board and Health Workforce Working Group to implement a range of… -> -> ->
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Trends in Clinical Research Including Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Participants Funded by the US National Institutes of Health, 1992 to 2018
Lan N. Đoàn, MPH1; Yumie Takata, PhD2; Kari-Lyn K. Sakuma, PhD, MPH1; et al Importance Advancing the health equity agenda for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA/NHPI) individuals has become an intersecting priority for federal agencies. However, the impact of federal investments and legislation to ensure systematic processes and resources to eliminate… -> -> ->
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Tell your Members of Congress: Protect Medicaid Coverage for American Families!
Medicaid is the largest single source of health coverage in the U.S., providing necessary care for more than 72 million low-income Americans, including children, seniors, veterans, hardworking families, and people with disabilities. Some policymakers in Congress are considering cutting Medicaid funding that could threaten millions of Americans’ healthcare… -> -> ->
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Measles Outbreaks Spread to 9 States in U.S.
“One of the most contagious viruses in the world is spreading around the United States. So far in 2025 there have been three distinct measles outbreaks and at least 164 cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coming from nine states. The largest of the… -> -> ->