I’ve got great news. After thousands of California parents called on the California legislature to protect effective services for children with autism a few weeks ago, our legislators took action! The latest budget proposal coming from the California Senate includes $50 million to ensure that children enrolled in the state’s Medi-Cal system will have access [...]
Five years ago, when my husband was interviewing for his first job as a high school teacher, I remember my parting words to him were, “Go get us some health care!” Although we knew his teaching salary wouldn’t be high, we did expect that the health coverage benefits would ease our financial worries. At the [...]
To kick off National Women’s Health Week, MomsRising and the National Women’s Law Center invite you to a tweetchat on Monday, May 13th at 2-3 pm ET to answer whatever questions you may have about preventive services in the health care law! Over the next few years, as an increasing number of health plans come [...]
While our culture revers mothers as the heart and soul of a family, our public policies often ignore the importance of a mother’s health in shaping her family’s future. In the last 15 years, our country has made amazing strides in reducing the number of children who do not have health coverage. Today, only 7% [...]
Three years ago this Saturday, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Since then, the law has both derisively and lovingly been re-named “ObamaCare”. Whatever we choose to call it – health reform, the ACA, ObamaCare – this groundbreaking law has already brought real and fundamental change [...]
Lesson from this week – there’s always more to learn! Five years into my work on health reform, I learned that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has much more to offer small business owners and the self-employed than I had realized. Welcome news! This Monday, MomsRising co-hosted a webinar for small business owners with [...]
Small business owners around the country are grappling with the same question: What will health reform mean for me and my employees? Opportunities and confusion abounds. To demystify the opportunities and obligations under the Affordable Care Act this year and beyond, MomsRising is teaming up with the Small Business Majority to host a free webinar [...]
This week, my five-year-old son finally mastered the art of making his own morning cereal. It’s a big milestone but honestly, but I’ll save the real celebration for when he can do it without spilling milk everywhere. It’s one thing to start something but another to finish the job without leaving a mess. Right now, [...]
Do you want to give the insurance industry *more* power over New Mexicans’ health coverage choices?! If you answered, “No!”, you must call New Mexico’s legislators RIGHT NOW to speak up to stop the insurance industry’s attempt to gain more control over our state’s new health coverage marketplace. Here’s everything you need to call now: [...]
Awed. Inspired. Fired up. On Thursday, we invited people to tell us how the “fiscal cliff” could impact them if their personal budgets had to be stretched tighter due to the very wealthy continuing to get the Bush tax breaks. Responses poured in. And, on Friday, we delivered many of those stories directly into the [...]
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