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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Whatever CDC Says About COVID-19 Vaccinations for Kids, It’s Up to States
Parents, pay close attention. An advisory committee has recommended unanimously that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include COVID-19 vaccines in its childhood immunization schedule for next year. The CDC is expected to adopt the recommendation. The CDC’s immunization schedule is the standard list of vaccines used by pediatricians for childhood vaccines, including shots…Robert Moffit -
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UK Newspaper Takes Pro-Abortion Deception to Next Level
The pro-abortion industrial complex is at it again. The Guardian, a U.K.-based newspaper that reaches an estimated 8.8 million readers each day across all platforms, on Wednesday published an article suggesting that until 10 weeks of pregnancy, the unborn baby is only white tissue material. The Guardian article, “What a pregnancy actually looks like before…Emma Waters -
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Here Are the States Rejecting Mandatory COVID-19 Shots for Kids
At least 11 states have rejected or are expected to reject a recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that pediatricians give COVID-19 shots to children along with other vaccines. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices unanimously decided Thursday to add COVID-19 shots to the children’s immunization schedule, which some schools and states use…Reagan Reese -
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Biden Forgets Democratic Party Supports Unrestricted Abortion
President Joe Biden appeared to forget Thursday that his administration — and the majority of the Democratic Party — supports unrestricted abortion. The president spoke with reporters outside The White House on Thursday afternoon where he was questioned: “Should there be any restrictions on abortion at all?” “Yes, there should be,” he responded. Pressed as…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Pentagon Establishes Abortion Travel Fund for Service Members, Abortion Providers
The Department of Defense announced Thursday that the Pentagon will pay for service members and their dependents to travel to abort their unborn babies. A Pentagon memo obtained by The Daily Signal says that it will establish “travel and transportation allowances for Service members and their dependents, as appropriate and consistent with applicable federal law…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Democrats Stake Midterm Election Hopes on Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision in Dobbs. It May Not Be Enough.
In the months since the U.S. Supreme Court issued what many consider its most significant decision in five decades, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (overturning the court’s earlier creation of a fictitious “constitutional” right to abortion in Roe v. Wade), the nation has inched closer to the Nov. 8 midterm elections. And with control…Sarah Parshall Perry -
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Stacey Abrams Claims Abortion Access Could Relieve Inflation Woes
Abortion access could help to alleviate concerns over high inflation rates, according to Stacey Abrams, the Democrat nominee for governor in Georgia. “Abortion is an economic issue,” Abrams told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday. Abrams was asked what she would do as governor about “the cost of gas, food, bread, milk … to alleviate…Virginia Allen -
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GOP Lawmakers Call on Biden Administration to Reverse COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate as ‘American Hero’ Faces Discharge
A group of Republican lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to reassess the U.S. Coast Guard’s policy for “religious exemptions from the COVID-19 vaccination order," which will likely force the involuntary discharge of a service member whom President Joe Biden thanked last month for his "heroic work." Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., along with 16…Samantha Aschieris -
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Biden Promises to Codify Roe in What Some See as Last-Ditch Midterm Abortion Effort
President Joe Biden announced that if Democrats win the House and Senate in the midterm elections this November, the first bill he would send to Congress would codify Roe v. Wade. Biden remarked at the Democratic National Committee event this Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision violated women’s’…Gillian Richards -
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Notre Dame Professor Offers Abortion Assistance to Students
A sociology professor at the University of Notre Dame offers to help students in procuring chemical abortions and “morning after” pills, a student newspaper reported Wednesday. The Irish Rover, a conservative Catholic publication, reported that the professor, Tamara Kay, had advertised her willingness to assist in abortions on her office door with a sign reading: “This…Wallace White -
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‘Did He Just Shoot Me?’ 84-Year-Old Woman Shot While Canvassing on Abortion Speaks Out
Eighty-four-year-old Joan Jacobson never imagined she would be shot when she knocked on the door of a Michigan couple's home, hoping to convince them not to vote for a local pro-abortion ballot proposal. Sharon Harvey answered the door and quickly became "hostile, belligerent, and antagonistic" when she learned Jacobson's mission, according to David Kallman, Jacobson's…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Judge Strikes Down Federal School Mask, Vaccine Mandate
A federal judge in Louisiana has struck down a government mandate that required Head Start program staff to get vaccinated and mandated that both teachers and students must wear face masks. “The public interest is served by maintaining the constitutional structure and maintaining the liberty of individuals who do not want to take the COVID-19…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Democrats Use Abortion of 10-Year-Old to Slam GOP Candidate as She Goes Into Labor
Democrats combating Republican Ohio congressional candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert have not shied away from pro-abortion rhetoric and attacks—even as she gave birth to her first son this week. “Marcus and I are excited to announce that we welcomed our baby boy, Marcus Jr., into the world earlier this week,” Gilbert, the GOP nominee in Ohio’s…Mary Margaret Olohan -
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Biden Declares Pandemic ‘Over.’ So What About His COVID-19 Policies?
President Joe Biden has declared the COVID-19 pandemic “over.” “We still have a problem with COVID,” Biden said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night on CBS. “We’re still doing a lot of work on it … but the pandemic is over.” While walking through the site of the Detroit Auto Show during…Jarrett Stepman -
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Post-Pandemic Job Recovery Paints a Favorable Picture for Republicans, Report Finds
The Republican National Committee released a report this Friday showing that Republican-led states have led the way in creating new jobs and lowering unemployment since the COVID-19 outbreak. Using new Department of Labor data, the committee found that in August, 9 out of the 10 states leading the way in job recovery have a…Gillian Richards -
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Abortion Is a Lifesaving Procedure and Other Myths
A pro-life association released a backgrounder debunking several myths abortion advocates have pushed following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision this June. The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, founded the same year as the landmark abortion case in 1973, has ramped up its…Gillian Richards -
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‘Careless’: Federal Government May Have Accidentally Sent $1.3 Billion in COVID-19 Relief to People in Foreign Countries, Inspector General Says
The Small Business Administration may have inadvertently sent over $1 billion in COVID-19 relief to individuals in foreign countries, a government watchdog said in a Monday report. SBA handed struggling small businesses and nonprofits up to $2 million in loans each through the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans program as well as grants and advances. But the…Gabe Kaminsky -
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Biden’s Title IX Rule Change Would Redefine Pregnancy to Include Abortion
The Department of Education’s 90-day comment period ended Monday for proposed rule changes for Title IX. What is the Biden administration trying to accomplish? Nothing less than the redefinition of sex—and of pregnancy itself. The landmark 1972 law known as Title IX ensures that women and girls don’t face discrimination based on sex in school…Melanie Israel -
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Introduces Bill to Prohibit Abortion After Baby Can Feel Pain
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has introduced the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act. If passed, the bill would prohibit abortion across America after 15 weeks in most cases. Flanked by pro-life leaders, Graham introduced the bill during a press conference on Capitol Hill Tuesday, saying the legislation aims to limit abortion after an…Virginia Allen -
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Biden’s Ever-Shifting Position on COVID-19 ‘Emergency,’ Exploited Purely for Political Gain
Is COVID-19 still an emergency? If you want a straight answer, don’t ask President Joe Biden. His answer changes as it suits his political agenda. COVID-19 infections and deaths are low, vaccination rates are high, and treatments are widely available. In other words, we’re in a much different place than we were in March 2020,…GianCarlo Canaparo