Last week, public health nurses with the Monongalia County Health Department underwent LGBTQ+ “safe zone” training. The adjacent term “safe space” is too often met with eyerolls […]
Tag: health care
MCHD public health nurses take online course in LGBTQ+ Safe Zone training
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Visiting a health care provider can be nerve wracking for anyone, but members of the LGBTQ+ community often face additional challenges, said Brad Grimes, program director […]
GOP can be for Medicaid expansion
by Sara Pequeño More than 1 in 10 people in North Carolina are living without health insurance. They’re working in construction, retail or manufacturing. They’re cooks and […]
Climbing from world’s worst to first
by Robert Pearl Another year, another condemnatory report for American medicine. In August, the Commonwealth Fund ranked U.S. health care dead last among 11 of the world’s […]
Vaccine exemption bill exempt from common sense
“Frankly, I think this hearkens back [to] Nazi Germany.” The above quote came from West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, as he spoke in favor […]
What else is in the Build Back Better Act?
by Michael Hiltzik EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is continued from “People talk about the cost of that big federal bill …,” published yesterday, Oct. 18. Child care […]
People talk about the cost of that big federal bill but don’t know what’s in it
by Michael Hiltzik The most glaring flaw in media coverage of Washington is that it focuses heavily on process and seldom on substance. That’s certainly been the […]
W.Va. shouldn’t deny transgender people health care
Last week, Lambda Legal added two more plaintiffs to its lawsuit, Fain v. Crouch, challenging West Virginia’s new law denying gender-confirming health care for transgender individuals who […]
What Manchin gets right — and wrong — about $3.5T bill
In his op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Joe Manchin proclaimed that he won’t vote for a reconciliation package carrying a $3.5 trillion price tag.* *What […]
Masks, mandates & individual choices
Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something […]
