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VA mistakenly declared San Diego veteran dead, cut off disability payments
U.S. Navy veteran Sky Lowe fought for five months to prove he is alive. By Alexis Rivas, Mike Dorfman and Mark Sackett • Published March 24, 2025 • Updated on March 25, 2025 at 3:40 pm A San Diego Navy fought with the Department of Veterans Affairs for five months after he received a letter mistakenly declaring him deceased. NBC 7 investigative reporter Alexis Rivas…
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Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much
By Tony Leys March 25, 2025 PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many people with disabilities from holding full-time jobs. “Which is it? Do you want us to work or not?” he…
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Lawmakers Try Again on Bill to Give 50,000 Medically Retired Veterans Full VA Disability, Retirement Pay
By Patricia Kime Published March 19, 2025 at 4:39pm ET Members of Congress are trying again to pass legislation that would give medically retired service members full access to both their military retirement pay and disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs. A bipartisan group of senators on Monday introduced their chamber’s version of the Major Richard Star Act —…
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After historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills over state lines
March 19, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Rosemary Westwood At the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project (MAP), physicians use telehealth to prescribe and mail pills to people who live in states that ban or restrict abortion. When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman…
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Tribes That Rely on Federal Funds for Medical Care Worry About DOGE Cuts
by Solcyré Burga Mar 21, 2025 3:42 PM CT The reservation of the Kashia Pomo Tribe, based in Sonoma County, Calif., is nearly two hours away from the nearest hospital or center providing critical medical services. Reno Keoni Franklin, chairman emeritus of the Kashia Pomo Tribe, says the long commute is just one of several…
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Online GLP-1 sales fuel hormone replacement therapy
Tina Reed Mar 11, 2025 The surge of online weight-loss drug providers is unexpectedly fueling demand for a much older, once-stigmatized treatment: hormone replacement therapy. Why it matters: Facing a dearth of providers for treating menopause symptoms including weight gain, women are looking for answers online and increasingly finding all-in-one hubs run by top telemedicine companies.…
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Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Lauren Weber Sun, March 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM CDT HONDO, Tex. – Jaylee Williams needed to find somewhere to deliver her son. The 19-year-old knew more about barrel racing on her horse Bet-n-pep than the complicated metrics of who takes what health insurance. But relief for Williams and her boyfriend, Xander Lopez, came when…
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Trump’s policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans, sources say
March 12, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Katia Riddle In the wake of federal firings and executive orders, providers and patients at the Department of Veterans Affairs say mental health and mental health care are suffering. They fear this struggle will get worse as the VA carries through with 80,000 promised job cuts. The agency is one of the…
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Trump DOJ’s limits on FACE Act enforcement fuel concern from abortion providers
March 9, 20256:00 AM ETRyan Lucas One morning in late August 2021, Phebe Brandt was attending to patients at a Planned Parenthood facility in Philadelphia, where she works as a nurse practitioner, when someone at the front desk told her a man had barricaded himself in one of the bathrooms. Just a few minutes later,…
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