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What the GOP’s tax bill means for your health care

By Paige Winfield Cunningham, Yasmeen Abutaleb
Jul 02, 2025 10:28 am - If you’re among the 78 million people on Medicaid or the 24 million with a health plan from the insurance marketplaces, changes to how you qualify for and enroll in coverage — and what medical providers are available to you — could be on the way.
Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban

By TODD RICHMOND
Jul 02, 2025 9:09 am - The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by newer state laws regulating the procedure, including statutes that criminalize abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb.
House Republicans race toward a final vote on Trump's tax bill, daring critics to oppose

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Jul 02, 2025 7:57 am - Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a Wednesday vote on President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package, determined to seize momentum from a hard-fought vote in the Senate while essentially daring members to defy their party's leader and vote against it.
Ascension closure of delivery services sparks protest

By Steve Zalusky
Jul 01, 2025 4:55 pm - Protesters gathered outside Ascension Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove Village Tuesday, opposing Ascension’s decision to discontinue baby deliveries at the hospital.
Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 27, 2025 10:14 am - The Supreme Court preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive health care coverage requirements on Friday, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects some 150 million Americans.
Massage Therapy Education hosts grand opening in Fox River Grove

By Cathy Moran, Cary-Grove Area Chamber of Commerce
Jun 26, 2025 3:40 pm - Massage Therapy Education, an innovative new massage therapy school dedicated to training the next generation of massage professionals, has opened its doors in Fox River Grove and celebrated with a ribbon cutting on June 17.
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 26, 2025 9:22 am - A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.
Key Medicaid provision in Trump's big tax cut and spending bill is found to violate Senate rules

By LISA MASCARO
Jun 26, 2025 9:20 am - The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a key Medicaid provider tax overhaul that is central to President Donald Trump's big tax cut and spending bill does not adhere to procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow to Republicans rushing to finish the massive package this week.
US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science’

Jun 26, 2025 9:15 am - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost the public trust.”
Kennedy’s vaccine committee to vote on flu vaccines and controversial preservative

By MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
Jun 26, 2025 9:12 am - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee backed another option to protect infants against a dangerous virus — before turning to questions about fall flu vaccines and a preservative in a small fraction of them that some antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

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