A Colorado woman bled on the emergency room floor while <a href="https://www.walb.com/video/2023/08/25/anybody-could-have-died-patients-recall-waiting-12-hours-mercy-south-hospital-er/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waiting 12 hours</a> for care. A New York man who feared he had appendicitis waited eight hours while repeatedly vomiting and passing out. A cancer survivor in <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/10/ucsf-emergency-wait-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco</a> waited 28 hours for a doctor to examine her injured leg. By the time she saw a doctor, she was paralyzed.
ER wait times have been steadily increasing since 2012, spiking during the coronavirus pandemic. Today, they&#8217;re higher than ever.
What is happening in America&#8217;s emergency rooms?
A <a href="https://ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/news/wait-times-emergency-hospitalization-keep-getting-higher?" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new study</a> published in the journal Health Affairs looked at data from 46 million emergency visits across all 50 states since 2017. Researchers found a national increase in wait times, with the average wait time exceeding four hours. Additionally, 5% of patients waited more than 24 hours to get assistance.
Notably, the study did not factor people leaving the ER before they received care, which is typically referred to as ER &#8220;abandonment.&#8221;
Staffing shortages are certainly a factor, but they alone can&#8217;t explain increased wait times.
According to <a href="https://paragoninstitute.org/author/niklas_kleinworth/?mab_v3=9924" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Niklas Kleinworth</a>, a policy analyst at the Paragon Health Institute, the problem is largely due to the lack of financial incentives in the American healthcare system.
“I think that the increased ER wait times are actually one of the big <a href="https://paragoninstitute.org/newsletter/the-falsehoods-of-obamacare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broken promises of Obamacare</a>,&#8221; Kleinworth told The Daily Wire on Thursday. &#8220;When that law was passed, we were promised that if you gave people more healthcare coverage, they would see their primary care physician instead of going to the ER. They would have more access. But we&#8217;ve actually seen the opposite.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen that a lot of the financial incentives for people to take care of themselves and go see their regular physician haven&#8217;t come to fruition,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;And so now people are going to the emergency room to get routine care instead.”
Kleinworth said expanding telehealth services could help solve this problem. In Montana, for example, after Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed a bill in 2021 to increase telehealth access and eliminate certain restrictions, emergency department visits <a href="https://mthf.org/news/2024-medicaid-in-mt-press-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decreased </a>with Medicaid enrollees. Mental health services were also more accessible and cost-effective for residents in rural communities and the Native population.
Another problem is the increased rate of rural hospital closures. With fewer rural hospitals, Americans from these areas are forced to travel longer distances to city hospitals, adding to already congested ERs.
Kleinworth explained that federal programs like the 340B Drug Pricing Program actually “encourage consolidation.&#8221; As a result, we’re seeing large urban hospitals buy up small rural hospitals to capitalize incentives meant for rural areas.
Larger city hospitals &#8220;benefit from a lot of the programs that were designed for those [rural] hospitals, like 340B Drug Pricing Program,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And then they&#8217;ll reduce access to services in those areas and redirect them to more wealthy areas where the margins are higher.”
He also highlighted some other &#8220;pretty basic solutions,&#8221; like making sure government programs designed to help rural facilities actually help rural facilities.
Kleinworth also noted that a little deregulation could go a long way to increase health care access.
&#8220;For example, in the state of Idaho, they allow non-physicians like pharmacists to be able to practice at the top of their license. And a lot of people receive their primary care through their pharmacists now,&#8221; Kleinworth said.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this month that <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/02/opinion/democrats-are-spending-money-on-healthcare-for-illegal-migrants-in-california-its-6-4-billion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrants</a> are driving up ER wait times and healthcare costs alike. Democrats say that giving illegals full access to the American healthcare marketplace will help alleviate stress on emergency rooms.
Kleinworth isn&#8217;t so sure.
“Unfortunately, no, that&#8217;s not the solution,&#8221; Kleinworth told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Take California, for example. California is one of those states where they&#8217;ve offered healthcare benefits to illegals for years now. The promise was that it was going to allow them to access their primary care and they won&#8217;t have to go to the emergency rooms anymore. But we find that California actually has some of the highest ER wait times in the country. They also have some of the highest abandonment rates in the country.”
Ultimately, Kleinworth says, we need to seriously overhaul Medicaid.
&#8220;The problem here is that the way the system is designed, it prioritizes able-bodied working-age adults over pregnant women, the disabled, elderly, and children,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And what we saw with Medicaid expansion, a lot of those people were less likely to be able to access their specialists, their primary care physician, so it also increased the ER wait times.&#8221;
&#8220;Refocusing the program on the truly needy, instead of able-bodied working-age adults would help,&#8221; Kleinworth said, noting that President Donald Trump&#8217;s big, beautiful bill &#8220;made a lot of progress toward that.&#8221;

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President Donald Trump unveiled a deal with U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca on Friday under which the company will sell some medicines at a discount to the government&#8217;s Medicaid health plan in exchange for tariff relief, similar to a drug pricing pact reached last week with Pfizer.
The deals set a framework the White House will use to try to reach its goal of lowering U.S. prescription medicine prices. The president sent letters to 17 leading drugmakers in July telling them to slash prices. Pfizer and Astra are the first two companies to reach a deal with the administration.
AstraZeneca will also offer some of its drugs at up to 80% off their list price through the TrumpRx website planned for next year, CEO Pascal Soriot said at an event in the Oval Office.
He said the company will receive a three-year tariff exemption &#8220;to localize the remainder of our products.&#8221;
U.S. patients currently pay by far the most for prescription medicines, often nearly three times more than in other developed nations, and Trump has been pressuring drugmakers to lower their prices to what patients pay elsewhere or face stiff tariffs.
Last month, Trump threatened 100% tariffs, ratcheting up pressure on the pharmaceutical industry to agree to price cuts and shift manufacturing to the U.S., after negotiations broke down earlier this year, lobbyists and executives told Reuters following the Pfizer deal.
More than 70 million people are covered by Medicaid, the state and federal government program for low-income people. Drug spending in that program is dwarfed by that of Medicare, which covers people aged 65 and older or those with disabilities and is not included in Friday&#8217;s announcement.
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Medicare&#8217;s drug spending reached $216 billion in 2021, while Medicaid&#8217;s gross spending was around $80 billion.
The Medicaid program already receives the lowest drug prices in the U.S., so the additional savings may be modest, said Craig Garthwaite, a professor at Northwestern University&#8217;s Kellogg School of Management.
&#8220;If you look at AstraZeneca&#8217;s portfolio, I don&#8217;t think there are a bunch of drugs that exist where that&#8217;s going to involve them giving a very big discount to Medicaid,&#8221; Garthwaite said.
AstraZeneca&#8217;s Pfizer‑like deal may spare it tariffs, but will not move the needle on U.S. rising health insurance premiums and out‑of‑pocket drug costs, said Rena Conti, an associate professor at Boston University.
&#8220;It&#8217;s good for the companies, and has very uncertain if any benefit for Americans struggling with the affordability of prescription drugs,&#8221; Conti said.
Soriot has worked to keep his company close to Washington while pursuing its growth strategy.
AstraZeneca in July announced it will invest $50 billion in U.S. manufacturing and research and development by 2030. It will build its biggest site worldwide in Virginia, and expand facilities in five other U.S. states.
In September, the company announced it will sell its diabetes and asthma drugs direct to cash-paying U.S. patients at a discount of up to 70% off list prices, another move in response to Trump&#8217;s pressure campaign.
Soriot this year has played up the company&#8217;s U.S. credentials. He described the Anglo-Swedish firm as a &#8220;very American company,&#8221; highlighting its identity shift toward its largest market. AstraZeneca will list its shares in the United States as well as its current markets in the UK and Europe.
(Reporting by Steve Holland in Washington and Michael Erman in New Jersey; Additional reporting by Jarrett Renshaw and Ahmed Aboulenein in Washington, Maggie Fick in London, Patrick Wingrove in New York and Mariam E Sunny in Bengaluru; Editing by Caroline Humer and Bill Berkrot)

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Nearly two-thirds of Americans want COVID-era federal programs to come to an end, as Democrats demand that any government funding bill include an extension of health care subsidies that were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/929542118/Polling-on-ACA-Enhanced-Subsidies-Top-Line-docx?secret_password=sN1T3iUcGZSAHeyfI3eD">poll</a>.
Sixty-one percent of Americans said that the federal government should allow COVID-era subsidies to end, according to a poll conducted last week by the Republican-aligned firm OnMessage Public Strategies, Inc., that was shared with The Daily Wire.
Those surveyed were asked whether “the federal government should allow programs that were designed deliberately to address the problems created by the COVID-19 pandemic to sunset, and put those funds to more pressing issues facing Americans.&#8221; Thirty-nine percent of those surveyed strongly agreed with the statement, and 22% somewhat agreed, while only 15% strongly disagreed, and another 15% somewhat disagreed, also wanting to keep the COVID-19 Affordable Care Act subsidies alive.
The poll surveyed 1,000 Americans. Thirty-eight percent of those polled identified as Republicans, and 33% of the participants identified as Democrats. Another 26% of those surveyed identified as independent.
Affordable Care Act subsidies have been a major part of the ongoing government shutdown negotiations on Capitol Hill. Under former President Joe Biden&#8217;s Inflation Reduction Act, those health care subsidies, that were meant to address issues during COVID, were extended through the end of this year. However, Democrats want the subsidies made permanent, arguing that insurance premiums would skyrocket and low-income Americans would be forced to drop their coverage. The Congressional Budget Office <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-pulse/2025/10/02/breaking-down-the-aca-subsidy-fight-00590901">estimated</a> that by 2034, four million people who would have had insurance will be uninsured if the subsidies are not extended.
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The OnMessage poll found drastically different results than a similar poll conducted by the health policy organization KFF last week. A KFF survey published on October 3 found that 78% of Americans want Congress to extend the Obamacare subsidies, including 59% of Republicans. The KFF <a href="https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/despite-budget-concerns-three-quarters-of-public-say-congress-should-extend-the-enhanced-aca-tax-credits-set-to-expire-next-year-including-most-republicans-and-maga-supporters/">poll</a> also found that ending the subsidies could be problematic for Republicans in next year&#8217;s midterm elections.
Republican leaders, who have opposed Obamacare for years, argue that the subsidies debate should be held closer to the end of the year, after the government has been funded. Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, are also seeking additional ways to reduce government spending. An analysis from the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation released last month estimated that a permanent extension of the Obamacare COVID subsidies would increase the federal deficit by $349.8 billion over the next decade, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5540430-mike-johnson-shutdown-obamacare-subsidies/">reported</a>.
Both House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5538167-congress-aca-tax-credit-increase/">said</a> that discussions over Obamacare subsidies cannot happen while the government remains shut down, urging their Democratic colleagues to focus on agreeing to a temporary funding bill before larger funding debates can be held.
“We have effectively three months to negotiate. In the White House and in the halls of Congress, that’s like an eternity,” Johnson <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5540430-mike-johnson-shutdown-obamacare-subsidies/">said</a> on Monday.
Trump said on Monday that he&#8217;s open to negotiating with Democrats on the health care subsidies, but added that they must reopen the government before those negotiations take place.
&#8220;I am happy to work with the Democrats on their Failed Healthcare Policies, or anything else, but first they must allow our Government to re-open. In fact, they should open our Government tonight!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115329671584864920">wrote</a> on Truth Social on Monday evening.
The Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-updates-countdown-to-government-shutdown?contentProgram=LIVE%20UPDATES%3A%20Another%20Failed%20Vote%3A%20Shutdown%20Continues&amp;contentType=Post&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">failed</a> to pass a funding bill again on Monday night, with the vast majority of Democrats rejecting the Republicans&#8217; continuing resolution.

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If Democrats in the Senate continue to block a short-term government funding plan, a program that allows low-income and Medicare patients to be treated at home rather than in a hospital will expire, the White House warns. 
The Acute Hospital Care at Home Initiative enables hospitals to obtain approval to treat Medicare patients with conditions such as respiratory diseases or bacterial infections at home. The program, which was rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to expire on September 30 unless reauthorized by Congress.
Around 1,200 Medicare patients per month currently benefit from the program, according to information provided to The Daily Wire by the Office of Management and Budget. The program has been well-received by both patients and healthcare providers, <a href="https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-report-study-acute-hospital-care-home-initiative">according</a> to evaluations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 
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“Democrats are trying to shut down the government to pacify their base, and they don’t care who they hurt in the process — including beneficiaries receiving hospital care at home,” a Trump administration official told The Daily Wire. “This program has been a success and is popular with patients and providers.” 
“While Republicans voted to extend it, Democrats are more than happy to harm these patients and force them out of their homes so that they can shut the government down,” the administration official added. 
The program was included in the short-term spending package passed by the House last week, which continues federal spending as is for seven weeks. However, Democrats are blocking the same bill from passing in the Senate. 
As of Friday, 48,955 patients have benefited from the program, and 419 hospitals across 39 states have approved participation in the program, according to the Office of Management and Budget. 
Commonly treated conditions under the program include heart failure, blood poisoning, respiratory disease, pneumonia, bacterial infection, urinary tract infection, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Early evaluation of the program indicates generally lower mortality and readmission rates for patients treated at home. 
If a shutdown occurs, the Office of Management and Budget has directed federal agencies to prepare for permanent reduction-in-force plans, indicating that widespread firings could be forthcoming across the federal government. President Donald Trump has said that the Democrats are holding the funding hostage by trying to force taxpayer funding for illegal alien healthcare and transgender surgeries on children.

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Trump Tells Pregnant Women To Avoid Tylenol Over Autism Fear

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In an effort to thumb their noses at President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-to-link-tylenol-use-in-pregnancy-to-autism-says-wall-street-journal">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</a>, liberal pregnant women have taken to filming themselves popping acetaminophen (Tylenol) tablets — despite an eight-year-old social media post from the drugmaker itself warning against it.
&#8220;We actually don&#8217;t recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today,&#8221; the company&#8217;s official X account posted in March of 2017.
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We actually don&#8217;t recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today.
— TYLENOL® (@tylenol) <a href="https://twitter.com/tylenol/status/839196906702127106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
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And it wasn&#8217;t even just the one time — Tylenol&#8217;s account posted similar statements on several occasions.
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It&#8217;s almost like Tylenol doesn&#8217;t want you to use Tylenol while pregnant. 
📷:<a href="https://twitter.com/TheEmperorSon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheEmperorSon</a> <a href="https://t.co/IDg4aYLPq5">pic.twitter.com/IDg4aYLPq5</a>
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) <a href="https://twitter.com/AutismCapital/status/1970899261987618924?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Department of Health and Human Services also shared the old post, saying, &#8220;No caption needed.&#8221;
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No caption needed. <a href="https://t.co/pcZYyPdGg4">pic.twitter.com/pcZYyPdGg4</a>
— HHS.gov (@HHSGov) <a href="https://twitter.com/HHSGov/status/1970868168995536978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The White House account shared the Tylenol recommendation as well, along with a photo of the president holding one of his signature red baseball caps that said &#8220;TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING.&#8221;
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<a href="https://t.co/LjALiSXN5J">https://t.co/LjALiSXN5J</a> <a href="https://t.co/B23RA0MVi7">pic.twitter.com/B23RA0MVi7</a>
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1970865002027614636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The women filming themselves taking the drug were doing so in reaction to a <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1970276365116268622">press conference</a> that took place on Monday, during which President Trump and HHS Secretary Kennedy raised questions about the possibility of a causal link between autism and mothers who had used acetaminophen during pregnancy or had given it to their children as infants.
Kennedy is far from the first to raise such a concern.
A Mount Sinai <a href="https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2025/mount-sinai-study-supports-evidence-that-prenatal-acetaminophen-use-may-be-linked-to-increased-risk-of-autism-and-adhd">study</a> published in August suggested that there was a link between prenatal acetaminophen use and both autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5536672/">Findings</a> published by the National Institutes of Health in 2017 suggested that Tylenol use in infants and young children may pose an even greater risk for autism and ADHD than use during pregnancy.
In 2019, a <a href="https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/05/acetaminophen-pregnancy-autism-adhd/">study</a> from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with elevated risks for autism and ADHD.
But still, in order to push back on Trump and Kennedy, pregnant women began posting videos of themselves as they swallowed the pills.
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Just to stick it to Trump and RFK Jr, liberal women who are pregnant are posting videos on social media of them downing Tylenol
This is so sad.. <a href="https://t.co/mEDyDRoraL">pic.twitter.com/mEDyDRoraL</a>
— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpStudents/status/1970558892846522571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Nicole Saphier begged them to stop, saying, &#8220;Pregnant women popping Tylenol like Tic Tacs just to stick it to Trump — please stop. Don’t weaponize your pregnancy for a political point. Consider acetaminophen only when absolutely necessary, for the shortest duration and lowest dose, even the makers of Tylenol say this.&#8221;
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Pregnant women popping Tylenol like Tic Tacs just to stick it to Trump — please stop.
Don’t weaponize your pregnancy for a political point.
Consider acetaminophen only when absolutely necessary, for the shortest duration and lowest dose, even the makers of Tylenol say this.
— Nicole Saphier, MD (@NBSaphierMD) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBSaphierMD/status/1970554174438887581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Tuesday, a judge ruled that Luigi Mangione, the murderer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, should not be charged with first-degree murder.
The question was whether there would be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-tosses-two-terrorism-charges-against-luigi-mangione">another charge</a> of terrorism added; it was dropped.
Clearly, Luigi Mangione shooting Brian Thompson — and leaving a note talking about how this was designed to effectively terrorize people who are part of the health care system — was an act of terrorism. It was a politically motivated murder with the intent of driving terror into the hearts of people who are part of the capitalist system or part of the health care system.
The judge in this case, Justice Gregory Carro, put out a statement explaining why the legal definition of terrorism was not met. The judge stated, “The defendant&#8217;s apparent objective, as stated in his writings, was not to threaten, intimidate, or coerce, but rather to draw attention to what he perceived as the greed of the insurance industry &#8230;”
The judge’s statement is a permission structure for violence. I would ask, how would you define drawing attention to what you perceive as the greed of the insurance industry through murder?
This was definitionally terrorism. If it wasn&#8217;t to “threaten, intimidate, or coerce,” then why was someone murdered?
Mangione didn&#8217;t write an Op-Ed in The Nation about the health care system; he murdered a man. And he murdered a man, yes, with the intent to threaten, intimidate or coerce people who were members of the health care industry.
If you take this judge&#8217;s argument and you extend it to literally any terrorist group around the world, it means that there is no such thing as terrorism. It writes the definition out of existence. You could say, “Radical Islamic terrorist beheads a Wall Street Journal reporter. Well, you know, he wasn&#8217;t really meaning to threaten, intimidate, or coerce others. He was really attempting to draw attention to what he perceived to be Western intolerance.”
What a bunch of absolute garbage. 9/11 terrorists under this definition would not have been terrorists, because obviously, “Osama bin Laden was just trying to draw attention to the predations of American foreign policy in Saudi Arabia” or some such nonsense.
The permission structures for terrorism and violence are there. They are deeply embedded. They&#8217;re embedded. It is largely relegated to the Left, but there are some on the Right who are willing to countenance this sort of stuff. That’s just the reality.
This is why there were crowds outside of the courthouse when it was announced that Mangione will not face life in prison without the possibility of parole. He could easily get out while he is still 50 or 60 years old after shooting a man in cold blood in the back and then in the back of the head.
There were people celebrating that in New York City on the streets. You want to know why Zohran Mamdani could be the mayor of New York City? This is why.
Scavengers, demons. That&#8217;s what this is. There were people on the Right who were angry at me when I said that the capture of Luigi Mangione needed to end with the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, and that anybody who celebrated the death of Brian Thompson was doing something evil. Some people on the Right objected to that, and tried to create permission structures, saying, “Well, yes, he shouldn&#8217;t have done that. But, you know, there are real grievances. And if you ignore those grievances &#8230;”
It was largely relegated to the Left. But there were some horseshoe theory people on the Right who were doing that routine. The Mangione case is a key tipping point case for political violence in the United States.
And you can see those permission structures emerging in the world&#8217;s worst ways on social media. Social media has been a bane on our existence.
Until those permission structures disappear, violence like this may well become more commonplace.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired back at Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in the early moments of what turned out to be a very contentious Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday, exclaiming at one point, &#8220;Do I get a reply?&#8221;
Throughout the Senate Finance Committee hearing, Kennedy fielded a number of pointed questions about recent shake-ups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and his complete overhaul of the panel meant to make recommendations on vaccines — and numerous senators used their time to effectively offer their own testimony in place of his, routinely leaving him barely enough time to answer yes-or-no questions.
Wyden, after using some of his time to complain that Kennedy was &#8220;politicizing&#8221; the committee that recommends vaccines, accused him of compromising children&#8217;s health.
&#8220;[You&#8217;re] enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense,&#8221; Wyden claimed, before ceding the floor back to the committee chair.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! RFK Jr. just absolutely EVISCERATED Democrat Senator Ron Wyden
&#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve sat in that chair for how long? 20, 25 years? While the chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said NOTHING. You never ASKED the question why it&#8217;s happening!&#8221;
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&#8220;Do I get a reply?&#8221; Kennedy asked then, and after apparently getting the go-ahead to respond, he directed his comments at Wyden. &#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve sat in that chair for how long? 20, 25 years? While the chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing. You never asked the question why it&#8217;s happening, why is this happening?&#8221;
&#8220;Today, for the first time in 20 years, we learned that infant mortality has increased in our country,&#8221; Kennedy continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not because I came in here. It&#8217;s because of what happened during the Biden administration that we&#8217;re going to end.&#8221;

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The White House is not planning to force insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization treatments, according to a report over the weekend.
The Trump administration is not planning to follow through on a campaign pledge to ensure either the government or insurance companies pay for couples to undergo IVF, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/03/trump-administration-ivf-care/">reported</a> Sunday, citing two people with knowledge of internal discussions.
Last August, Trump announced his IVF promise during a campaign rally in Michigan.
“I’m announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with IVF treatment,” Trump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/29/trump-ivf-proposals-costs/">said</a> in his speech.
“We want to produce babies in this country, right?” Trump said.
IVF is a fertility treatment that involves doctors taking eggs from a woman and sperm from a man and creating embryos in a lab, then attempting to implant them in the woman&#8217;s uterus. One round of IVF can cost couples $20,000 or more, and it is not usually covered by insurance.
IVF sprang into the national conversation in the thick of campaign season last year when the Alabama Supreme Court <a href="https://apnews.com/article/alabama-frozen-embryos-ivf-storage-questions-1adbc349e0f99851973a609e360c242c">ruled</a> that a couple who lost frozen embryos in a clinic accident could file a wrongful death lawsuit over their child&#8217;s demise.
Expanding IVF access remains a &#8220;huge priority&#8221; for Trump, but the administration is not currently considering requiring insurance companies to cover it, the insiders told the Post.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said Trump is still working to expand IVF.
“President Trump pledged to expand access to fertility treatments for Americans who are struggling to start families,” the spokeswoman said. “The Administration is committed like none before it to using its authorities to deliver on this pledge.”
One of the Washington Post reporters who authored the IVF story called it an &#8220;apparent L&#8221; for conservatives who promote having children.
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New: Trump admin is NOT planning to require health insurers to cover IVF, sources say, in retreat from 2024 campaign pledge
Another apparent L from this admin for the conservative natalists <a href="https://t.co/hJSP3OQ4mG">pic.twitter.com/hJSP3OQ4mG</a>
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) <a href="https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1951976844024074252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Another apparent L from this admin for the conservative natalists,&#8221; chief economics reporter Jeff Stein posted on X.
However, while about 63% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/13/americans-overwhelmingly-say-access-to-ivf-is-a-good-thing/">say</a> IVF access is a good thing, IVF remains controversial among conservatives, including those who promote big families.
The Catholic Church forbids IVF in part because very <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/257066/more-human-embryos-destroyed-through-ivf-than-abortion-every-year">often</a>, many embryos are created in the IVF process only to be destroyed or frozen indefinitely.
Last year, the Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution expressing alarm about the way IVF is currently done, including the “destruction of embryonic human life.”
Many pro-life conservatives who believe life begins at conception oppose IVF as well.

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Over three dozen economists are urging the Senate to pass a bill that would codify President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring health care price transparency, which they say could save the American economy $1 trillion. 
In a Thursday <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/07/Economist-Letter-Marshall-Hickenlooper.pdf">letter</a>, 40 economists across the political spectrum asked the Senate to back a <a href="https://www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/BAI25371.pdf">bill</a> from Senators Roger Marshall (R-KS) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) that would require hospitals to inform patients of medical costs before receiving care. Conservative economists Steve Forbes and Art Laffer, who signed the letter, told The Daily Wire that the proposal would cut waste and help the American economy. 
&#8220;The Patients Deserve Price Tags Act would give Americans access to actual prices in healthcare, allowing consumers to make informed decisions and finally hold hospitals and insurers accountable for wide price variation and overcharges,” Forbes told The Daily Wire. “Unleashing the free market would drive enormous savings for consumers and employers, boosting the economy to the benefit of all Americans.&#8221;
Laffer pointed to a study from the Journal of the American Medical Association that estimated that about 25% of America&#8217;s $4.9 trillion in health expenditures was spent on administrative waste, overcharges, over-treatment, and fraud. Laffer estimated that pricing transparency could save the economy $1 trillion per year. 
&#8220;Beyond lowering healthcare costs through choice and competition, price transparency will substantially benefit the American economy and the American worker,” Laffer told The Daily Wire. “When upfront prices empower businesses and unions to significantly reduce health plan costs, they can redirect savings to productive pursuits, including higher worker wages, generating an enormous economic stimulus for years to come.&#8221;
Other economists who signed the letter include representatives from Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Vanderbilt, Duke, and other major universities. 
“As professional economists, we are united in our belief that real price transparency is urgently required to reverse the nation&#8217;s runaway healthcare costs that place a tremendous financial burden on patients, employers, workers, and the national economy,” they wrote. “Patients and employers need upfront prices to avoid overcharges, spot wide price variations — such as $300 to $3,000 MRIs and $1,200 to $12,000 colonoscopies — and choose affordable care.”
Most Americans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-americans-back-trumps-radical-actions-to-reform-health-care-industry">support</a> more transparency in health care pricing, with 74% of Democrats, 83% of independents, and 91% of Republicans all supporting Trump’s February executive order that tasked his administration with putting for new regulations for hospitals to share more pricing data with customers. 
Andrew Bremberg, a former assistant to Trump, told The Daily Wire that the policy would be an “historic part of President Trump’s legacy and will forever change healthcare for the American people.”
The bill is also backed by Republican Senators Chuck Grassley (IA), Tim Sheehy (MT), Joni Ernst (IA) and Democrat Senator Maggie Hassan (NH).

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Health care provider Kaiser Permanente confirmed to The Daily Wire on Wednesday that it was pausing all transgender surgeries for patients under the age of 19 in response to pressure from the Trump administration.
The health care giant said that effective August 29 it would stop doing transgender surgeries — which includes procedures like removing the breasts of girls who identify as boys or other genital procedures. The company said the pause was a result of pressure from the Trump administration cracking down on transgender procedures on minors. 
“After significant deliberation and consultation with internal and external experts including our physicians, we’ve made the difficult decision to pause surgical treatment for patients under the age of 19 in our hospitals and surgical centers,” the health care giant told The Daily Wire. “We recognize that this is an extremely challenging and stressful time for our patients seeking care, as well as for our clinicians whose mission is to care for them. We will work closely with each patient to support their care journey.”
The statement from Kaiser Permanente added that it would continue providing all “other gender-affirming care treatment.” This would include things like administering cross-sex hormones to kids, procedures that have been shown to have a serious impact on fertility and body development. 
Kaiser Permanente said that the decision was ultimately made because of pressure from the Trump administration. 
“Since January, there has been significant focus by the federal government on gender-affirming care, specifically for patients under the age of 19,” the company said. “This has included executive orders instructing federal agencies to take actions to curtail access and restrict funding for gender-affirming care, hospital inquiries by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, and regulatory changes to coverage and broader federal agency review, including by the Federal Trade Commission. Most recently, the U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas to doctors and clinics providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, as part of ongoing federal investigations.”
The pause was first <a href="https://x.com/BillboardChris/status/1948111553229905931">reported</a> on X by activist Billboard Chris. 
Kaiser Permanente has been sued by Chloe Cole, a woman who underwent transgender procedures as a minor before she overcame her gender dysphoria. Cole says that her doctors pushed her to medically and surgically attempt to change her gender while she was struggling with mental illness and incapable of full consent.
Cole celebrated the pause on X, thanking the Trump administration for its actions.
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Kaiser Permanente, the gender clinic that destroyed my childhood, has confirmed they will be HALTING transgender surgeries for patients under the age of 19 nationwide, effective next month!
This is only a pause, according to internal emails, but these incremental wins must be… <a href="https://t.co/6zWQofQlkm">pic.twitter.com/6zWQofQlkm</a>
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChoooCole/status/1948125026810515897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cole is represented by the Center for American Liberty, which also praised the decision. 
“Kaiser Permanente’s decision is a monumental step toward protecting vulnerable youth,” CEO Mark Trammell said. “For too long, children have been subjected to life-altering surgical procedures at an age when they lack the capacity for informed consent. Our ongoing litigation with courageous detransitioners such as Chloe Cole, Luka Hein, and Clementine Breen has exposed the irreversible harm caused by these medical interventions.”

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