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Birth Control Without Co-Pays and 4 Reasons to Care About Health Reform
by Akiba Solomon on July 22 2011, 12:59PM
A new report recommends that the feds force insurance companies to fully cover birth control pills, STD screenings and other women’s health musts under health reform. It’s up to us to make them listen.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Health
Vermont Breaks Ground in Health Coverage for Migrant Workers
by Yvonne Yen Liu on June 10 2011, 9:49AM
The state’s historic new universal health care system will cover the undocumented workers who toil in dangerous isolation to keep Vermont’s farms in business.
Topics: Health, Immigration
One Year Later, People of Color Are Health Reform’s Strongest Backers
by Shani O. Hilton on March 23 2011, 4:59PM
They’re also the ones who stand to lose the most if the GOP effort to repeal or defund it succeeds.
Haley Barbour Leads War on Medicaid as States Ready Health Reform
by Julie Appleby on March 22 2011, 9:51AM
The likely GOP presidential candidate says Medicaid recipients drive BMWs in Mississippi.
Topics: Health
Global AIDS Watchdogs Worry U.S. Neglecting Its Leadership Role
by Michelle Chen on January 28 2011, 10:07AM
Obama’s strategy is to fight HIV comprehensively, but some say that’s camouflage for neglect.
Topics: Global Justice, HIV/AIDS at 30, Health
The GOP’s Biggest Health Care Victory? No Race in the Debate
by Jamilah King on January 20 2011, 2:28PM
Even after last night’s vote to repeal health care reform, both sides are ignoring health care’s most salient issue.
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GOP Attack on Health Care Reform Is a Fight Against Racial Justice
by Jamilah King on January 7 2011, 4:35PM
Republicans are attacking a bill that could take us one step closer to health equity.
Concerns Loom as Health Care Reform Goes Into Effect
by Seth Freed Wessler on September 23 2010, 2:47PM
Advocates worry that millions of society’s most vulnerable still left out in the cold.
Topics: Health
Recession Pushes Health Care System from Bad to Worse
by Michelle Chen on September 17 2010, 3:14PM
Maybe with another few hundred thousand newly uninsured people next year, Washington will finally figure out that ignoring the pain won’t make it go away.
Clock Ticks on Stopping Abortion Ban in Insurance Pools
by Michelle Chen on September 10 2010, 10:50AM
The administration is poised to impose an unprecedented abortion restriction on some of the sickest uninsured women in the country.
Topics: Obama Abortion Ban, On Gender
State Lawmakers Harden the Colorline in Reproductive Health
by Michelle Chen on September 7 2010, 9:30AM
Slowly but steadily, state lawmakers have worked to limit women’s reproductive freedom in the past legislative session.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Health, On Gender
Insured or Not, Women and Children’s Health Shortchanged
by Michelle Chen on September 3 2010, 9:10AM
The escalation of insurance costs is old news by now, but in light of the recession, the pattern doesn’t augur well for a half-baked reform plan.
Latinas Rallying For Reproductive Justice
by Michelle Chen on August 13 2010, 9:45AM
It’s Latina Week of Action for Reproductive Justice, and bloggers are sounding off about self-determination and controlling their own reproductive destinies.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Health, On Gender
White House Bans Abortion Coverage in New High-Risk Pools
by Michelle Chen on July 20 2010, 8:00AM
And women of color are most likely to pay the price. Reproductive justice advocates are asking people to write the administration and demand better.
Topics: Obama Abortion Ban, On Gender
The Insurance Industry’s Stealth Attack on Health Reform
by Yvonne Yen Liu on July 16 2010, 11:08AM
Why you should care about “Medical Loss Ratio.” No, really.
Topics: Health
No Free Pill Yet Under New Healthcare Regulations
by Michelle Chen on July 15 2010, 9:40AM
From a reproductive justice standpoint, birth control isn’t just a women’s issue but an issue of racial and socioeconomic equity as well.
Topics: Obama Abortion Ban, On Gender
Making Hospitals Speak the Language of Equity
by Tammy Johnson on July 6 2010, 6:06PM
A victory in Washington State’s hospitals proves the point: We actually can create racial equity in our health care system, if we want to.
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In the Wake of Health Reform, Abortion Under Attack
by Michelle Chen on June 4 2010, 10:00AM
When health care reform finally limped past the finish line on Capitol Hill, the compromises littering the final bill left many activists disillusioned, but some hoped that action on the state level could keep the progressive reform movement moving…
Demographics of Abortion: Race, Poverty and Choice
by Michelle Chen on May 7 2010, 9:30AM
What kind of a woman gets an abortion these days? The Guttmacher Institute has released a report that tracks abortion rates across different demographic groups. One of the most stunning findings, particularly in light of the newhealth care reform legislation,…
Topics: Health
Accountability for the Return of Abstinence-Only Funding
by Guest Columnist on April 26 2010, 11:10AM
By Jessica Strong Health care reform’s off the front pages, but the new problems it introduced haven’t gone away. Outraged at the (unanticipated) inclusion of renewed abstinence-only sex education funding in the bill, the group Advocates for Youth has plans…
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