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Posted October 18th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
By Brigette Courtot, National Women’s Law Center “Optional maternity coverage has a very unfavorable impact on our bottom line…[t]his coverage option will be eliminated in stages.” This is just one of many illuminating quotes from insurance company leaders that can be found in a set of memos released last week the House of Representatives’ Committee [...]
Posted September 22nd, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Stephanie Drahan and Thao Nguyen, National Women’s Law Center September 22, 2010: You get sick. You go to the doctor. You get diagnosed. Your insurance company drops your coverage when you need it the most. You now find yourself fighting your illness and the insurance company. September 23, 2010: You get sick. You go to [...]
Posted August 12th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, National Women’s Law Center This Saturday, August 14, is the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. It was President Franklin Roosevelt who signed the bill into law, but it was Frances Perkins, the first woman in the Cabinet, who made it happen. [...]
Posted July 27th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
By Stephanie Drahan, Outreach Associate, National Women’s Law Center As we like to repeat, in March, an historic health care reform law passed! In September, many of the provisions will start going into effect, including one of the most popular: the “under 26” or dependent coverage provision. This provision allows young adults, who are under [...]
Posted July 9th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Brigette Courtot, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women’s Law Center So many good things are coming out of our new health reform law that it’s tough to keep track of it all! In fact, the earliest benefits are now several months old, like the small business tax credit. The tax credit, which works as an [...]
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
Today ends my know-it-all days. For the past few months, after the passage of the new health care reform law, friends and family members have come to me as a source of information about what the new health care reform law means to them. Sure, I didn’t have all the answers, but I had the [...]
Posted May 13th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Marcia Greenberger, Co-President, National Women’s Law Center This week, President Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the U.S Supreme Court. As we prepare for the Senate hearing on the nomination of this exceptionally qualified candidate, it is important to ask ourselves what difference the Supreme Court makes in the lives of women. Click [...]
Posted April 23rd, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
Some things are wrong. Some things are heinous. And then there is Wellpoint. Yesterday, Reuters released an article about Wellpoint’s profit making practice of targeting women with breast cancer. Reducing the lives and well-being of women to a math problem, one of the insurance companies with the worst records of putting people before profit has [...]
Posted April 7th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
April 20th will mark Equal Pay Day—the point in 2010 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2009. And for the third year in a row, we’re asking bloggers and tweeters to raise their voices in support of fair pay for women by posting about this crucial [...]
Posted March 29th, 2010 by Thao Nguyen
by Kelli Garcia, Fellow, National Women’s Law Center When I was breastfeeding my daughter, I was lucky enough to have a comfortable private space at work to express breast milk and supervisors who understood the necessity of taking breaks. Now, thanks to the recently passed health care reform bill, more working mothers will have similar [...]
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