Surprising no one, the Democrats caved.
Well. Apparently messing with people’s air travel was the thing that did it. Not withholding food from poor people—that wasn’t quite enough—and not letting people start…

The fight over health premiums, explained.
I hope you all have been having a good week, and are still basking at least a little in the glow of Tuesday’s election results. I know there will be more bad days ahead,…

Don’t let your neighbors go hungry.
In Monday’s update I talked about the ways this administration is attacking our access to food by ending the USDA’s annual report on household food security, obscuring…

Update 5: Attacking our access to food
OK, here’s the final installment in the series of updates on 5 things the Trump administration has been doing to attack our health and wellness. If you didn’t already,…

Update 3: Attacking our access to medications.
Continuing the series of updates on things the Trump administration has been doing to attack our health and wellness, today I close out the work week with a quickie:3.…

Exposing health information, destroying food, and altering data: Good times.
Only 3 days since the last update, and yet there are 3 more distressing stories that have broken this week about the government’s negative impacts on public health:1.…

Medicaid cuts hurt all of us.
It’s been way too long since the last What in the Health?! update. Trust me, it’s not because there haven’t been important things happening (COVID vaccines for pregnant…