The costs of healthcare continue to rise but reimbursements are not keeping up

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JzHK8PCZ99Q 

 

How Much Has Trump Cost YOU?

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I0w_IKLwtFM

 

Is punishing the poor Trump’s last hand to play?

The pre-midterm defenestration of ACA enrollees looks like political madness – but the president appears to believe hitting poor people might work for him…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/trump-aca-healthcare-politics-midterms

 

Isaiah Martin explains his strategy for how to win an argument with MAGA (Find Out podcast on YouTube)

Isaiah Martin knows how to leave MAGA speechless - and it isn’t an accident.

The viral content creator and CNN contributor joins the Find Out Podcast to reveal how he prepared for Jubilee’s “1 Liberal vs. 20 Conservatives” debate, why facts and discipline beat Republican rage bait, and how his political videos reach more than 200 million views per month.

Isaiah also explains why Democrats should attack MAGA politicians - not their voters - and how a bold economic agenda built around healthcare, childcare, education, and affordability could create a lasting political realignment. Plus, the group discusses Trump’s war in Iran, breaking through right-wing echo chambers, flipping Texas, and the Democrats’ chances in the 2026 midterms.

00:00 Isaiah Martin Joins the Podcast
01:21 How Isaiah Became a Political Creator
03:47 The Intense Preparation Behind His Jubilee Debate
07:00 How Isaiah Leaves MAGA Speechless
11:26 What Really Happened During “1 vs. 20”
13:13 Can Political Debates Actually Change Minds?
17:13 Training Inside MAGA Debate Rooms
18:43 Reaching 200 Million Views With Political Content
22:02 Attack MAGA Leaders - Not Their Voters
26:37 Why Trump Supporters Are Beginning to Break Away
29:35 Democrats’ Opportunity for a Political Realignment
34:34 How Democrats Can Win Texas and the Midterms
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/50RrGzG2P6k?si=TRc7ha9rBDhd_sIa

Michigan advocates speak out against “devastating” federal healthcare funding cuts

“These are parents wondering whether they can afford to take their child to the doctor,” Scholten said. “It's a small business owner struggling to keep coverage for their family and their employees. It's someone putting off a prescription or a screening because they simply cannot afford another bill. And these pressures are only going to get worse if we don't change course.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-08-17/michigan-advocates-speak-out-against-devastating-federal-healthcare-funding-cuts 

What is 'Biblical Medical Ethics'? The Rise of Christian Nationalist Healthcare- unholy ground

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SaiWXxCYNY

 

A midwife crosses 'maternity deserts' to make a difference for Black moms and babies

"This goes beyond a mere inconvenience," said Dr. Michael Warren, chief medical and health officer for the March of Dimes. "We know that those women who live in maternity care deserts are more likely to have bad outcomes when it comes to their pregnancies." 

More than 20,000 babies die before their first birthday every year in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And about 600 women a year don't survive pregnancy-related complications. 

The risks are heightened for women of color, according to the most recent maternal mortality data from the March of Dimes and the CDC. Rates of maternal death are significantly higher for Indigenous and Black women than for white women…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/11/nx-s1-5678523/maternity-desert-birth-midwife-black-moms-babies

 

Republican candidates say they are healthcare champions despite cuts : NPR

Republicans campaigning in swing districts are running ads about healthcare after facing criticism of the cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Many of these ads target voters over 35 years old and focus on three topics: Medicaid fraud, rural hospitals and affordability...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5870960/republican-ads-healthcare-medicaid-2026-midterms

 

California’s largest ICE facility neglected detainees’ medical needs, monitor finds

Court-appointed investigator finds California City facility failed to comply with judge’s order to provide adequate healthcare…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/california-ice-detention-healthcare-violation 

Trump Sends Republican Party Into OFF THE CHARTS HYPOCRISY #trump

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HlbR5uJqwAg

 

This Is What Bias in Medicine Sounds Like

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c4Y1J1kyr7o?is=jxgfYa9rjWKrojjy

 

Florida’s Nursing Homes Are Bracing for Life Without Haitian TPS Workers – Mother Jones

“Florida is home to one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing older adult populations, and demand for long-term care services continues to increase each year,” the letter reads. It describes “an exceptionally competitive labor market,” meaning that finding qualified workers has been challenging. “Any significant reduction in the available workforce would make it more difficult to serve current and new residents, causing a ripple effect that could overwhelm our local hospitals and the entire healthcare system.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/floridas-nursing-homes-are-bracing-for-life-without-haitian-tps-workers/

 

Watchdog warns of risks to patients as private equity’s stake in US healthcare grows

One of the most heavily scrutinized practices of healthcare investors, including in the case of Steward, is the sale-leaseback. In a sale-leaseback, a healthcare provider (often a hospital) sells the property to an REIT. The property is then leased back to the hospital. Sale-leasebacks provide a cash infusion to both partners in the venture, investors and the healthcare business, but have been criticized for saddling hospitals – many of which were built on the public dime – with added expenses…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/06/us-private-equity-healthcare-joint-ventures

 

I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately

At every stage of childhood, the Trump administration is withdrawing a protection. It is also dismantling the tools that would measure the harm…

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/19/trump-administration-healthcare-for-kids

 

Revlimid: The $0.25 Cancer Pill That Sold for Nearly $1,000 — ProPublica

Armstrong: And I just happened to find it. There was a lawsuit that a, um, generic drug company filed against Celgene, and buried in thousands of pages was an excerpt of a deposition of Celgene’s head of manufacturing. And a lawyer asked him flat out, “What does it cost to make this drug?” And he said 25 cents. And I remember the moment I saw that, I, I knew that it was a big markup involved, but when he said that the cost was 25 cents a pill, and it had always been 25 cents a pill, and it’s still 25 cents a pill, I was just really floored by that... 

One of the former sales officials said that internally they thought they could charge whatever they wanted, that cancer patients will pay whatever price the company put on this pill. So there were, from the time Revlimid was approved by the FDA in 2005 to current day, 26 price hikes.  So it was a bluff that was called. And for Celgene, it was an incredibly lucrative bet that they made...

 https://www.propublica.org/podcast/revlimid-cancer-drugs-fda-healthcare 

The White House Just Made Medicaid Work Requirements Even Worse – Mother Jones

“It’s hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point,” East said. “Adding work requirements to Medicaid is part of a massive shift in our safety net in this country under this administration to make it as small and hard to access as possible.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/hhs-medicaid-work-requirements-health-care-federal-rule/

States sue to stop student loan limits on some healthcare degrees : NPR

In implementing the changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Trump administration has scaled back the types of graduate degrees that qualify as "professional" and for which students can borrow up to $50,000 a year and $200,000 overall. It is limiting those exempted programs to 11 categories: chiropractic, clinical psychology, dentistry, law, medicine, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, theology and veterinary medicine. Nursing, physical therapy and nurse anesthesia are some of the many healthcare-related programs excluded from that short list of professional degrees… 

"This Department of Education has chosen to make it harder for nurses to advance their education and their careers," Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, president of the American Nurses Association, said in a statement. She continued: "Make no mistake, this is not a technicality or a footnote. This rule will be felt in real communities, for example, in rural areas where nurse practitioners, midwives, and nurse anesthesiologists are often the only providers of core care services."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5826688/lawsuit-student-loans-nursing-healthcare-graduate-degree

Trump's budget director couldn't answer THIS

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N1_ky2HiXKc

Trump ignores dying Americans and gives away record sums to the US military

Americans are dying in droves. Deaths due to avoidable causes in the United States –which could be dealt with via prevention or proper healthcare – far outpace those in most of country’s peers in the industrialized world. Most notably, Americans die of treatable conditions at nearly twice the rate as Spaniards, French, Japanese and Australians...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/trump-budget-healthcare-military

 

Happy Easter Here’s a War Crime (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #057)

Has there been a bigger news week? 

Trump threatens to commit war crimes on Easter morning, but even before that, it was insane. 

The Supreme Court just made American healthcare worse, while a California jury may have made social media much better. 

The next Citizens United is averted, a Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas falls after a decade, and Trump stupidly goes to the Supreme Court in real life. 

Plus, Noem’s bimbofication scandal, Bondi is out, JD doesn’t know what church he attends, and Paula White thinks Trump is Jesus. And, oh yeah, we’re going back to the moon.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-43yca-2c9e8dea