Alice Miranda Ollstein

Happy publication to @alicemiranda.bsky.social, whose book Side Effects is out today! It's a critical examination of the health care ripple effects of the Dobbs ruling, and I cannot wait to assign this in my Health Law & Politics class. thenewpress.org/books/side-e...

Colorado's health dept, in a webinar on the 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' said nearly 6k legal immigrants lost Medicaid at the beginning of this month, and more than 3k more are set to lose coverage next year. Several states are worried the policy will cost far more in emergency care than it will save.

@alicemiranda.bsky.social shows that abortion bans aren’t just restricting reproductive care—they’re disrupting cancer treatments, chronic disease medications, fertility services and lifesaving medical research.

Hope to see lots of folks at my first DC-area book event later this week! www.eventbrite.com/e/coffee-con...

The Ripple Effect: How Abortion Bans Threaten the Entire Healthcare Ecosystem msmagazine.com/2026/10/24/a...

Mystery Ohio news site boosting Ramaswamy's Amy Acton ad tied to California GOP non-profit

Our lovely, high-functioning health care system: Doctors’ offices are charging patients 10 times more by claiming to be hospitals

Thanks to @msmagazine.com for this thoughtful writeup of my book, which comes out on Tuesday. "The collateral damage of abortion restrictions is proving vast and pervasive."

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

More on why this is the case -->. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected.

“A good part of the impact will be on states that are rural and red states, and it definitely has put some Republican candidates in a position of needing to explain the policy, which is complicated and difficult to explain. And as they say in politics: if you’re explaining, you’re losing.”

Congrats to AHCJ member Alice Miranda Ollstein of POLITICO on the upcoming publication of her first book, “Side Effects: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone’s Health." Check your local bookstore on Oct. 27! Share your own professional news here: healthjournalism.org/share-news

Important new book reflects on the broad effects of the loss of Roe. Wider aspects of even non-reproductive health care have been shaken by the ruling.

“A good part of the impact will be on states that are rural and red states, and it definitely has put some Republican candidates in a position of needing to explain the policy, which is complicated and difficult to explain. And as they say in politics: if you’re explaining, you’re losing.”

Study: US immigration enforcement disrupted pediatric emergency care for Hispanic families Spanish speakers and Hispanic families took their children to the emergency department less often following federal deployment. Read more: https://bit.ly/3U0jbi8

Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as health secretary RFK Jr. has proposed, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/h...

Medicaid cuts haunt Republicans in battleground states politi.co/4k32H3p

"A more accurate name would be 'You Can See Everything That We Chose To Point The Camera At.'"

Get a copy of Alice Ollstein's book SIDE EFFECTS: How Abortion Bans Impact Everyone's Health @alicemiranda.bsky.social from our friends at bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/side...

NEW from me & @gardnerlm19.bsky.social: The Trump's admin's abortion pill study is using software developed by a researcher whose opposition to Covid mitigation measures & push to roll back vaccine recs has made him a lightning rod. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

President Donald Trump has changed the geography of inflation. After years of consumer prices rising faster in big cities, his tariffs and war against Iran mean rural America is now hardest hit (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Fascinating tidbit in this interview with former Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont), he says that Texas Republicans anti-transgender ads aren't "resonating." "What Republicans are talking about is just not what the swing voter is really interested in." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

NEW: A Texas mom is suing the anti-abortion group Students for Life for violating the state's ban on ordering abortion pills from out-of-state doctors. Students for Life filmed a video of themselves ordering the pills in Houston in an attempt to show how easy it is to circumvent the law.

‘Furious’ judge halts Trump admin’s tree demolition at DC’s East Potomac golf course politi.co/4rXF12k

U.S. surpasses 4,000 measles cases with infections confirmed in 45 states. Most cases are among those unvaccinated or with an unknown status. abcnews.com/Health/us-su...

Schrödinger’s abortion pill review: Speculation is running rampant as activists & lawmakers try to guess what's inside the black box that is the FDA review of mifepristone. Depending on who you ask, Trump admin is either stringing along abortion opponents or is plotting a post-midterms crackdown.

On this week's #WTHealth pod: @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, and @paigecunningham.bsky.social on health and the midterms, more Medicaid cuts, and that FDA study of the abortion pill. kffhealthnews.org/podcast/what...

A team of financiers, techies, and government officials are talking on a government-run chat room about how to get Americans to use medical AI apps, turn over their medical records — and for the companies to profit. From Amanda Seitz, Maia Rosenfeld, ad myself: www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-tech...

Mold, larvae and dehydration: New report paints grim picture inside Adelanto ICE facility

Abortion opponents are pissed that the Trump admin is punting its abortion pill review til March, calling last night's court-ordered update "alarming" & "disappointing." SBA accused FDA of "trying to peddle fool’s gold" Students for Life posted: "Inaction. Inadequate. Indifferent to the destruction"

Bronx residents will be exempted from new Medicaid work requirements due to the county's high unemployment rate. New York notified CMS that it intends to implement this hardship exemption. The threshold = 8% unemployment rate or 1.5x the national average (whichever is less).

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

"In the back of the police car and while being booked, he asked four times about the well-being of his dog, Frankie. He did not ask about the condition of the man he had shot."