"A recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been held in an ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana, for the past six months following her arrest by immigration agents over the summer...Palacios said she applied for asylum as a child. She had previously been granted a work permit and had requested another when she was arrested in June. She does not have any criminal convictions."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/louisiana-nursing-student-ice-detention

#healthcare #nurses #immigrant #immigration #ICE #detention

"Progressives are pushing Medicare for All in some of the Democratic Party’s most competitive Senate primaries next year, threatening the unity the party has found on attacking Republicans over expiring Obamacare subsidies."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/democrats-have-been-united-in-bashing-the-gop-on-obamacare-medicare-for-all-could-reopen-a-rift-00701232

#healthcare #ACA #insurance #medicare #obamacare #UScongress #USpol

"A recent graduate of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been held in an ICE processing center in Basile, Louisiana, for the past six months following her arrest by immigration agents over the summer...Palacios said she applied for asylum as a child. She had previously been granted a work permit and had requested another when she was arrested in June. She does not have any criminal convictions."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/louisiana-nursing-student-ice-detention

#healthcare #nurses #immigrant #immigration #ICE #detention

"U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S.

Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Medicaid drug prices to match what they charged in other developed countries."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-drug-medicine-medicaid-eliquis-most-favored-nation-pricing-0f5d50da2722371323a8fcb4ed99f37a

#healthcare #medicaid #PrescriptionDrugs #DrugPrices #CostsOfCare

"Progressives are pushing Medicare for All in some of the Democratic Party’s most competitive Senate primaries next year, threatening the unity the party has found on attacking Republicans over expiring Obamacare subsidies."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/21/democrats-have-been-united-in-bashing-the-gop-on-obamacare-medicare-for-all-could-reopen-a-rift-00701232

#healthcare #ACA #insurance #medicare #obamacare #UScongress #USpol

"U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S.

Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Medicaid drug prices to match what they charged in other developed countries."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-drug-medicine-medicaid-eliquis-most-favored-nation-pricing-0f5d50da2722371323a8fcb4ed99f37a

#healthcare #medicaid #PrescriptionDrugs #DrugPrices #CostsOfCare