Policy Brief #164 – Health and Gender
by Carlos Avalos
The impetus to this bill is debatable but seems to center around a few key moments in recent American History.
Policy Brief #164 – Health and Gender
by Carlos Avalos
The impetus to this bill is debatable but seems to center around a few key moments in recent American History.
Policy Brief #163 – Health and Gender
by Geoffrey Small
The Inflation Reduction Act, which was enacted last year, gives Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies….
Brief #81 – Health & Gender Policy Brief
by Geoffrey Small
According to the FDA, “Almost half of the 6.1 million pregnancies in the U.S. each year are unintended.
Brief #80 – Health & Gender Policy Brief
by Inijah Quadri
The current system relies heavily on private insurance, often provided through employers, creating disparities in access and coverage.
Brief #79 – Elections & Politics Policy
by Abigail Hunt
Overall, each candidate supports banning abortion at some level, limiting women’s access to care and cementing our international infamy of having the worst maternal health outcomes of any developed nation, at a rate of more than 17 deaths per 100,000 births.
Brief #162 – Health & Gender Policy
by Geoffrey Small
On May 23rd, The United States Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory about the effects of social media on youth mental health.
Brief #161 – Health & Gender Policy
by Geoffrey Small
Last month two federal judges issued contradictory rulings on the abortion medication mifepristone, the most commonly used procedure in the United States.
Brief #160 – Health & Gender Policy
by Arvind Salem
On April 5, Governor Whitmer overturned Michigan’s 1931 law banning abortion. While the law was not in effect, its repeal represents a massive victory for abortion supporters across the state.
Brief #159 – Health & Gender Policy
by Geoffrey Small
As the U.S. healthcare system continues to fall short, when compared to other peer countries, the battle for insulin prices highlights just one of the major issues the country is facing.
Brief #158 – Health and Gender
By Geoffrey Small
The United States continues to fall short in providing basic healthcare necessities that other high-income nations provide globally. The proportionally low quality healthcare system in the U.S is compounded by a growing mental health crisis in a post-pandemic society, where demand for psychological help is higher than ever.
Brief #157 – Health and Gender Policy
By Caroline Howard
The Montana House of Representatives recently debated and then passed a bill which is being referred to as a medical right of conscience law. This act, as the Montana Free Press put it, would allow “medical institutions, providers and other health care employees to deny services based on their ‘ethical, moral, or religious beliefs or principles’”.
Brief #156 – Health and Gender Policy
By Caroline Howard
A new law introduced in North Dakota will make it a class-b misdemeanor for librarians in public libraries to have any books on display that are deemed “sexually explicit”. Within this list of topics that meet the definition of sexually explicit, are the classifications of sexual identity, and gender identity.