Three rural hospital rescue bills in five months, from the senator who voted for the law taking billions out of rural health care. Twenty-four Mississippi rural hospitals are now rated vulnerable to closure.
SB 217 would have written a right to IVF into Nevada law. It passed the state Senate 15-5 with Republican votes. Lombardo killed it, calling the insurance mandate 'fiscally impossible' — while saying he supports making IVF more accessible.
In 2021 San Diego County voted 3-2 to start a harm reduction program. Desmond voted no, saying it 'has the appearance of promoting drug abuse.' The CDC's own research says the opposite — participants are five times as likely to enter treatment.
Medicaid covers about 42% of New Mexicans — the highest rate in the country. Asked how he'd govern through Trump's cuts, the Republican nominee for governor said if it 'requires some scaling back, then we'll have to look at that.'
She ran South Carolina's Commission for the Blind and helped end subminimum wage for disabled workers. Two days into the Senate she voted to keep prior authorization in Medicare, and two weeks later against restoring child care funding.
Six Republicans crossed over to pass Oregon's Medicaid funding bill. Drazan wasn't one of them. Her objection wasn't to what the money does — it was to how many votes it needed.
The Speaker of the House headlined a Harding campaign breakfast built around one small, temporary tax break from Trump's budget bill. The same bill is costing Nebraska up to $4 billion in Medicaid and has already taken food assistance from 18,000 Nebraskans.
On the same telephone town hall where Pillen used an ableist slur three times, he dismissed Nebraska's $471.5 million budget hole as a press invention, said the state has 'bushel baskets' of money, and promised he won't support any candidate who won't back a six-week abortion ban.
Betty Redd-Mendez cares for her brother, son and father in Wasilla. She spent weeks arranging coverage so she could go ask her senator about the Medicaid cuts he voted for. He wouldn't come out of his office.