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Keystone Local Politics
Jul 2025 30

Trump policies could cut health care for 200,000 Pennie users

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, The Keystone Staff

Purchasing health insurance through Pennie, the commonwealth’s health care marketplace, is about to get a lot more expensive and harder to obtain thanks to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”

Republicans failed to extend tax credits for state-run health care marketplaces, which expire at the end of 2025. Nearly half a million Pennsylvanians use Pennie, and 200,000 are at risk under Trump’s new policies.

✏️/📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #Harrisburg #Pittsburgh #EriePa #Scranton #DonaldTrump #Republicans #MedicaidCuts #Medicaid

Keystone Local Politics - The Keystone Newsroom
Jul 2025 30

Summer Lee leads fight to release Epstein Files

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, The Keystone Staff

US House Republicans might have fled Washington DC to prevent the release of the Jeffrey Epstein Files, but that didn’t stop Congresswoman Summer Lee (D-Allegheny) from forcing the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement to approve a subpoena for the Epstein Files.

Lee’s amendment calls for the Department of Justice to release the full and unredacted Epstein Files to the House Oversight Committee, and it passed by an 8-2 margin with US Rep. Scott Perry (R-York) voting in favor.

“We are one step closer to justice for victims of Jeffery Epstein’s crimes and those of his accomplices,” Lee said in a statement. “We cannot claim to be protecting children while allowing powerful people connected to Epstein to hide in the shadows. They are not above the law.

✏️: Sean Kitchen
🎥: MSNBC

#Pennsylvania #Pittsburgh #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #DonaldTrump

Keystone Local Politics - The Keystone Newsroom
Jul 2025 17

Josh Shapiro: Pennsylvanians got screwed by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, The Keystone Staff

“Pennsylvanians got screwed in this.”

That's how Gov. Josh Shapiro put it when describing President Donald Trump's budget cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
According to the governor’s office, over 310,000 Pennsylvanians may lose Medicaid coverage, while 144,000 are at risk of losing access to food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

An additional 270,000 Pennsylvanians, who receive their health insurance through Pennie, the state’s official healthcare marketplace, could lose coverage because Trump’s budget bill does extend tax credits that were provided by the previous administration, according to the Republican Herald.

✏️/📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #PAPolitics #PANews #PAPol #DonaldTrump #JoshShapiro

Keystone Local Politics - The Keystone Newsroom
Jul 2025 9

Medicaid cuts would gut Pa.’s support system.

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, The Keystone Staff

Pennsylvania resident Thomas Reilly is high-functioning autistic and relies on Medicaid for health insurance and other benefits, including the provision of a Direct Support Professional (DSP), John Deboard.

Deboard supports Thomas in daily life tasks, including grocery shopping, laundry, and going to the gym.

Thomas’ benefits could be at risk if President Trump’s budget bill is signed into law, and so could John’s job.

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyd2Oxa7Y38

Keystone Local Politics - The Keystone Newsroom
Jul 2025 9

Pa. could get free birth control

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Leah Sherrill

The Contraceptive Access for All Act is on the table in PA. It passed the House with support from both sides, and awaits approval in the state Senate.

If it becomes law, health insurers in Pennsylvania will cover birth control at no-cost, meaning no co-pays or deductibles.

Follow Keystone Newsroom for updates.

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Jun 2025 12

Doctor at now-closed ER issues warning about hospital buyouts

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

Max Cooper, a former emergency room doctor at the now-closed Crozer Hospital in Delaware County, spoke about the dangers of private equity firms purchasing hospitals and then shutting them down for profit.

Prospect Medical Holdings, which closed four Delaware County hospitals in the last three years, purchased Corzer in July 2016 for $300 million. The company promised to keep the hospital open for 10 years, but closed it with very little warning last month.

Lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House passed House Bill 1460, which aims to stop exploitative private equity practices, by a bipartisan 121 to 82 margin on Tuesday. The bill also allows the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office to block deals that threaten access to care.

✏️ / 📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Delco #DelawareCounty #Crozer #ProspectMedicalHoldings #Philadelphia #Philly #HealthCare #Hospitals

Keystone Local Politics - The Keystone Newsroom
Jun 2025 12

This nurse was fired for speaking out against for-profit hospitals

By | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Sean Kitchen

Peggy Malone, a nurse who worked at Crozer Hospital, told The Keystone that she was fired from a new job after speaking out against private equity firms closing hospitals across the commonwealth.

Prospect Medical Holdings closed four hospitals it purchased, including Crozer, in Delaware County over the last three years. The company originally promised to keep the hospital open for 10 years, however, they closed Crozer with little warning at the beginning of May.

Malone explained that she had a new job lined up after Crozer closed but was unexpectedly fired after expressing her views about Prospect Medical Holdings at a press conference with Gov. Josh Shapiro last month.

✏️ /📹 : Sean Kitchen
#Pennsylvania #Delco #DelawareCounty #Crozer #ProspectMedicalHoldings #Philadelphia #Philly #HealthCare #Hospitals

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