health care
Posted July 21st, 2010 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Join us tomorrow for a fun and live streaming video event that you can participate in from your living room or your desk! We’re bringing questions about health care reform from MomsRising members straight to the world’s expert on health reform — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius! So pull up a chair, grab [...]
Posted June 29th, 2010 by Rachel Roth
Pennsylvania is poised to become the tenth state to restrict the shackling of pregnant women in labor or childbirth, once the governor signs the bill.
Posted June 16th, 2010 by Rachel Roth
The American Medical Association takes a stand against shackling women in labor
Posted May 17th, 2010 by Rhonda Present
What’s stinkier than a poopy diaper, bigger than a pile of laundry, deeper than a sink full of dirty dishes? It’s the Illinois budget mess and it’s growing by the minute. In fact, the fiscal woes we’re facing here in the Land of Lincoln are said to be among the worst in the nation. But, [...]
Posted March 22nd, 2010 by Elisa Batista
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers. This is an historical moment that I can’t get out of my head so my apologies in advance for writing, yet, another piece on healthcare reform. This is an issue near and dear to my heart and one of three issues — education and higher education spending are the other two — [...]
Posted December 21st, 2009 by Natale Zimmer
Age discrimination in the form of age rating, the practice of allowing private insurers to charge people higher premiums solely based on age, is wrong. And Congress is buying the false argument from the insurance companies that without age rating, insurance will be too expensive for younger people. But that’s not really why the insurers [...]
Posted November 24th, 2009 by EunSook Lee
The reality is that as we come closer to the passage of health reform, many immigrants are going to be left out. In the face of this situation, health reform and immigrant rights groups came together to do a big push to highlight the inequities and injustice of how immigrants are being treated. Two weeks [...]
Posted November 23rd, 2009 by Linda Tarr-Whelan
Health care for women is in the news these days. But what does it all mean? Having just researched for my new book what different decisions emerge when 30% women are at the table, I can’t help but wonder what would have happened if Congress were made up of 30% women, instead of 17%. But [...]
Posted November 9th, 2009 by Mable Yee
Late Saturday night, the House of Representatives voted on the historic healthcare reform legislation that has been heavily debated for the past few months. After long summer months where our legislators went back to their home districts to listen to their constituents talk about their healthcare concerns and where heavy lobbying by supporters and opponents [...]
Posted November 2nd, 2009 by Anita
Our members did it again! After receiving messages from MomsRising members, Speaker of the U.S. House, Nancy Pelosi, is now also wearing the MomsRising pacifier pin as she joins us in not being pacified until Congress delivers comprehensive and affordable coverage for children and families. (See picture just below). Right now it’s critically important that [...]
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