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Iowa budget bill bans Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care
14 Jun 2025 01:07 GMT
… preventing money allocated for Medicaid from paying for hormone … Advocate, “provides these same medications and procedures for non- … Project, Iowa joins 10 other states that ban Medicaid coverage … previous attempts to ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming …
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Brass Tacks from Rural Iowa: So much for Iowa Nice
13 Jun 2025 07:15 GMT
… more insulted and embarrassed for Iowa by her actions than … doctor, the cost of prescription drugs, or how they’ll be … pretty picture. Kicking people off Medicaid would only make it worse … nurse, and board president of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement. …
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Iowa bans Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for adults
12 Jun 2025 22:10 GMT
… not just youth — Iowa's Medicaid program is now … Iowa, told The Advocate. "The bill provides these same medications … ;
Iowa is now one of eleven states where Medicaid policy … Kansas, and Mississippi prevent Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care …
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Opinion: Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states
12 Jun 2025 14:25 GMT
… West Virginia. In fact, the drug overdose death rate in West … 15 highest death rates from drug use as well.
Related Story … the top 10.
Of course, drug overdose deaths are only part … on Medicaid.
In fact, NPR has reported, “At least eight other Iowa …
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Reynolds signs bill barring Medicaid for gender-affirming surgeries, hormone therapy
12 Jun 2025 00:57 GMT
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DES MOINES — Those on Iowa Medicaid will not receive coverage from … reassignment surgery and that Iowa Medicaid still will provide treatment … in Iowa if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration … the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been studying the …
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Reynolds wraps up final bills of 2025 Iowa legislative session
12 Jun 2025 02:50 GMT
… benefit managers, pharmacies, prescription drugs, and pharmacy services administrative … Services, Department of Management, Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System, … : Reynolds signs bill preventing Medicaid from covering gender-affirming careSF …
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Elon Musk has an idea for a new political party—that already exists
15 Jun 2025 23:14 GMT
… having the Food and Drug Administration inspect food or requiring … would strongly support Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act … of-pocket costs for prescription drugs on all insurance plans. … the opening day of the Iowa legislature, in January 2024, …
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D.C. Dispatch: Grassley promotes law enforcement funding in ‘big, beautiful, bill’
15 Jun 2025 21:02 GMT
… to the bill, and Iowa delegation members also addressed … were budget cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition … the budget cuts will “harm Iowa families” and simultaneously “increase … release.
Schedule I drugs are classified as “drugs with no currently …
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Iowans join a nationwide day of protests against Trump
15 Jun 2025 07:34 GMT
… No Kings protests happened across Iowa, in communities including Waterloo … to quash dissent.
Former Iowa Democratic Disability Caucus Chair … loses her Medicaid, she will not have the medication she … to die without it.”
Iowa Citizen Community Action Network …
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Letters to the editor June 14, 2025
14 Jun 2025 09:27 GMT
… not eligible for traditional Medicaid in Iowa. Federal law prohibits … claim to uphold.
Keep drugs affordable
As a mother … PBMs). PBMs decide what medications are covered and what patients … delays, denials, and unexpected medication switches — all due to …