Health
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Healthcare: Crowley promotes BadgerCare, Tiffany touts price transparency
Wisconsin’s candidates for governor have different ideas to reduce healthcare costs, with Crowley wanting to expand coverage and Tiffany promoting price competition.
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Trump admin cuts funds for gender-affirming care for youth. Here’s how to fight back.
Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s ruling on gender-affirming care, and what you can do to support LGBTQ+ rights and access to life-saving healthcare.
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WI colon cancer survivor faces a $20K health insurance spike
For millions of Americans, the sudden loss of federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act has turned what was once a manageable monthly health insurance bill into an unaffordable financial burden. In western Wisconsin, cancer survivor Mark Steigerwald called out state Congressional Republicans who have been lockstep with Trump in supporting the administration’s policies.
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Cyclosporiasis in Minnesota: How to avoid severe diarrhea from parasite
There have been fewer than 10 cases recorded of cyclosporiasis in Minnesota thus far, but Sen. Amy Klobuchar is asking for preemptive action.
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Question of the Week: How to fix healthcare
If it were up to you to change our healthcare system, would you strengthen the ACA? Adopt Medicare For All? Scrap government programs? It’s our newsletter Question of the Week for July 9.
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Sen. Howard Marklein is running as a bipartisan problem solver. His budget record says otherwise
For four straight state budgets, Sen. Howard Marklein has used his perch atop Wisconsin’s budget-writing committee to strip more than 1,600 of Gov. Evers’ proposals.
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‘Protesters spit on us’: Why this Wisconsin abortion clinic escort won’t back down
Molly has spent eight years escorting abortion patients into a Milwaukee clinic and shielding them from harassment, which sometimes turns physical.
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Tom Tiffany had two chances to protect Wisconsin’s SNAP. He chose Trump both times
Over the past year, tens of thousands of Wisconsinites have lost FoodShare after Rep. Tom Tiffany voted for two bills that pushed for and locked in SNAP cuts.
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Tone-Deaf Tiffany: Source after source says Tiffany is sacrificing rural hospitals for billionaire tax cuts
Wisconsin doctors and nurses are slamming US Rep. Tom Tiffany for being tone-deaf after his votes gutted Medicaid and ended ACA tax credits for Wisconsin families. Tiffany’s voting record could lead to a rural hospital closure in his district.
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The rise, fall, and reclamation of Wisconsin’s third spaces
Adult friendship is hard to find in a world dominated by algorithms. Inside the push to reclaim Wisconsin’s “third spaces” for genuine human connection.
