Healthcare & Policy News
Reporting on health care policy, insurance coverage, and federal health programs. Includes news updates and conservative commentary from The Daily Signal.
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Are We Treating Gen Z’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?
A few months ago, a high school teacher casually mentioned to me that at his school, students with diagnosed anxiety weren’t called on in class. What struck me as insanity is apparently mainstream in America’s schools now. In her gripping new book “Bad Therapy,” journalist Abigail Shrier chronicles how young Americans are living a childhood… -
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Sen. Ron Johnson, Health Experts Allege Cover-Up of COVID-19 Vaccine Dangers
Two weeks ago, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., got an email from a recently married man who learned his 36-year-old wife couldn’t have children shortly after she got her second COVID-19 shot. “She chose career, got the baby/family bug, and now she can’t have children,” the husband said in the email, which Johnson read aloud Monday… -
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What Federal Health Agencies Aren’t Disclosing About COVID-19 Vaccines
For more than two years, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has pushed federal health agencies for more information about adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines—and about the agencies’ efforts to censor criticism. Johnson said it was “beyond despicable,” for example, that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could be “actively hiding information about vaccine safety signals… -
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Gender Ideologues Stack Deck on WHO Panel on Trans ‘Health’
A who’s who of transgender activists was scheduled this week to meet in Geneva at the World Health Organization to develop new guidelines on “the health of trans and gender-diverse people.” We can presume the meeting took place, even though public notice of it didn’t appear on the U.N. website listing meetings and conferences. Until… -
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NAACP Assailed by Pro-Lifers for Its Support of Abortion ‘Racism’
A pro-life group has written an open letter to the NAACP, condemning the pro-abortion stance of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. “Abortion is the ultimate racism. Almost 20 million black babies have been killed since Roe v. Wade,” the letter from the American Life League read. Roe v. Wade was the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that… -
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Hell, No: Federal Court Banishes Idaho Satanists’ Abortion Lawsuit
In June of 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade and clarified that there was no constitutional right to abortion. Within minutes of the court’s ruling, hard-line liberals across the nation were howling about restricted access to abortion and devising new and novel ways… -
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Notre Dame’s Silence on Abortion Doula ‘Displays the Rot,’ Catholic Critic Says
The Catholic University of America and the University of Notre Dame both hosted an “abortion doula” on campus, but the two Roman Catholic schools responded to the backlash in starkly different manners. Catholic University fired the host professor within 24 hours of The Daily Signal’s report on an abortion doula’s lecture to one of the… -
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Florida Authorities Arrest Abortion Activist for Submitting Fraudulent Petition Signatures
Florida authorities have caught multiple individuals involved in petition fraud related to a radical effort to enshrine late-term abortion into Florida’s state constitution. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced this week that inspectors arrested a “paid petition circulator” and issued an arrest warrant for a second petition circulator after they submitted 133 invalid constitutional… -
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Transgender Series, Part 2: ‘Truthful Therapist’ Explains Why Parents Can’t Trust Mental Health Professionals
Editor’s note: This is the second podcast interview in a series on transgender phenomena, science, and the potential for medical malpractice lawsuits. Check out the first interview, on rapid-onset gender dysphoria. Unfortunately, parents can’t trust mental health professionals on the issue of a transgender identity, a veteran social worker warns. Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, a therapist and… -
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Restoring Trust on Public Health Issues After COVID-19 Rests Squarely on Public Health Officials
At this year’s annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, panelists convened to discuss their “Global Risks Report 2024.” Among the many world problems they decided they needed to solve, they identified “misinformation and disinformation” as one of the most severe threats facing the planet in the near term. Public health officials, struggling… -
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Abortion Pill Reversal Saved Her Baby Girl’s Life
Katelynn Perry sat in her bathtub doing Google searches on her phone. Was there a way to save her unborn baby? She had taken the first chemical abortion pill that day and had decided she was not going to take the rest. After visiting Planned Parenthood, Perry says she “knew that taking that first pill… -
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‘Did Not Align With Our Mission’: Catholic University Fires Professor Who Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: Catholic University confirmed to The Daily Signal that it has terminated the contract of the professor who invited a self-declared “abortion doula” to speak to students about coaching women through abortions and “pregnant men” through a “seahorse birth.” Catholic University President Peter Kilpatrick announced to students on Jan. 30 that… -
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SHOCKING: Catholic University Brought in ‘Abortion Doula’ Who Coaches ‘Pregnant Men’ Through Giving Birth
A self-declared “abortion doula” spoke this week to Catholic University of America students about her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching “pregnant men” to deliver in what she called a “seahorse birth,” according to audio of the class lecture obtained by The Daily Signal. A Catholic University nursing student described… -
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Abortion, Sacred Truths, and Politics
Speaking Jan. 5 in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, President Joe Biden said that the 2024 election is about whether “democracy” is “still America’s sacred cause.” But is democracy “sacred”? Is the process by which we make choices “sacred,” or is what we choose “sacred”? This is the time of year we think about the sanctity of… -
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It’s Lunacy to Give ‘Free’ Health Insurance to Illegal Aliens
Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and break into rich countries. The United States is their No. 1 destination. The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life…. -
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CDC’s Latest Abortion Numbers: A Sobering Reminder of Monumental Task Ahead
The most recent report on abortion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out and, as usual, it’s grim. The number of abortions rose from 620,327 in 2020 to 625,978 in 2021. The key drivers in this depressing increase are a greater use of dangerous chemical abortion pills and weakened safety protocols governing… -
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Abortion Back on the Docket for Supreme Court Term. This Time It’s a Chance to Check Runaway Agencies.
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions in 2016 and 2021 to drop virtually all safety precautions for obtaining and using abortion drugs. The Supreme Court’s involvement in any case related to abortion provokes all sorts of hysteria. But the court’s decision here will not just be about… -
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Pro-Life Experts Warn Leftists Are Using Texas Woman’s Abortion Battle as ‘Highly Public Flashpoint’
Kate Cox asked the Texas Supreme Court to give her permission to abort her unborn baby, a baby that has a condition known as trisomy 18. On Monday, her lawyers said that she will go to another state to end the baby’s life. That same day, the court said Texas law didn’t require her to… -
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Supreme Court to Weigh Major Case on Abortion Pill Approval
The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it is taking on a case regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the chemical abortion pill mifepristone. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Christian Medical & Dental Associations filed a lawsuit against the FDA in November… -
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What’s Driving Gen Z’s Poor Mental Health? Psychologist Breaks it Down
No generation struggles with mental health more than Generation Z, those born between 1997 and 2012. Only 41% of Gen Z respondents said they’re “thriving” in a Gallup and Walton Family Foundation poll released earlier this year and reported by CNN, but 60% of millennials surveyed said they were thriving when asked at the same…