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My Daughter Belongs at Home, Not in an Institution

My Daughter Belongs at Home, Not in an Institution

| Sep 16, 2026 | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor families like mine, Medicaid isn’t just health insurance. It’s what keeps our daughter home with us. My 11-year-old daughter, Angelina, has profound autism, intellectual disability, severe speech delay, asthma, incontinence, and other health issues. She needs...
Immigrants Didn’t Take Your Health Care. ICE Did.

Immigrants Didn’t Take Your Health Care. ICE Did.

| | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe cost of health care just keeps going up — and millions of Americans are set to lose coverage. Under the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” around 17 million people in this country will lose health care thanks to the law’s Medicaid cuts, failure to renew...
Think Medicaid Cuts Won’t Affect You? My Story Says Otherwise.

Think Medicaid Cuts Won’t Affect You? My Story Says Otherwise.

| Jul 8, 2026 | Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedI was 13 years old. We’d just returned from Christmas vacation, and I was asleep in my room. My mother tells me she heard a noise and found me in my bed, twisted up like a clam, frothing at the mouth. She was in shock. The paramedics came and took me to the ER. I...
Public Health Reduces Drug Deaths. Wars Don’t.

Public Health Reduces Drug Deaths. Wars Don’t.

| Jan 7, 2026 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedRepublicans have defended Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela as necessary to solve the drug overdose crisis. For instance, Vice President J.D. Vance posted on Twitter/X, “cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the...
Congress Cut Medicaid. It Could Devastate Rural Hospital Staffing.

Congress Cut Medicaid. It Could Devastate Rural Hospital Staffing.

| Dec 10, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, Arizona, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many smaller towns and rural communities, its health care staffing, infrastructure, and funding doesn’t meet the needs of residents. People who need health care...
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