Paul Cuno-Booth
Health & Equity ReporterI report on health and equity for NHPR. My work focuses on questions about who is able to access health care in New Hampshire, who is left out, and how that affects their health and well-being. I want to understand the barriers that make it hard for people to get care – including financial barriers – and what people in power are or aren’t doing to make things better.
Paul can be reached at pcuno-booth@nhpr.org.
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A House budget panel is recommending lawmakers cut $840,000 in annual funding that currently provides no-cost contraception, STI testing and other reproductive and sexual health care for more than 2,000 people. -
Republican lawmakers have argued the state should not be in the business of buying vaccines for privately insured children. -
Republicans, which hold a 4-1 majority, had tabled the promotion for the past month – while advancing others – because of Trump’s order barring transgender people from the military. But on Wednesday, the council voted to move the captain’s promotion forward. -
The safety net program covers more than 180,000 children, seniors, people with disabilities and low-income adults in New Hampshire. -
Lawmakers heard testimony Monday on a pair of Republican-backed bills that would prohibit transgender minors from receiving certain gender-affirming care, and also endorsed legislation that would allow government bodies and private businesses to bar transgender people from using a bathroom or locker room that aligns with their gender identity. -
The monthly payments would kick in above certain income thresholds. -
Hospitals say patients with urgent medical needs are still being seen immediately. -
Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Health say they could lose more than $30 million in funding for scientific research funding if planned cuts to NIH grants go through. -
Health officials continue to encourage vaccination and other precautions.
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The state currently provides childhood vaccines to doctors’ offices at no cost. A group of Republican lawmakers want to end that.
