healthcare
Posted July 27th, 2010 by Claire McAndrew
I have been unemployed since December 2008, and my husband works for a very small company with 5-6 employees that does not offer healthcare. Will health reform mandate all employers, regardless of size, to provide healthcare? Health reform does not mandate that small employers offer coverage to their workers. However, it does make it easier [...]
Posted July 20th, 2010 by Claire McAndrew
Will health reform require new health care plans to cover pregnancy care and delivery by midwives? Will lactation consultants’ services be covered? Under health reform, health plans will cover standardized, comprehensive benefit packages. The law sets out general categories of benefits that must be covered, and these categories include maternity and newborn care. The details [...]
Posted July 15th, 2010 by Donna Norton
About a decade ago I received a distraught call from my high school friend, Mark, telling me that his son had just been diagnosed with cancer at his one year old well child visit with the pediatrician. A decade later, he called to say that his son’s life had been saved by this checkup. He [...]
Posted July 13th, 2010 by Homa Tavangar
The euphoria of the final World Cup match is over and so many people around the world don’t know what to do with themselves. Summer 2010 has been marked by one nation after another facing off in the stunning World Cup, with the entire world (especially the Americans, more than ever before in the game’s [...]
Posted July 1st, 2010 by Donna Norton
It’s time again for the annual Fourth of July family picnic. Picture this: You’re minding your own business eating your corn on the cob when over walks your cousin (the one who’s nine months pregnant and in a very bad mood because it’s much too hot). She remarks, “The country is going to hell in [...]
Posted June 29th, 2010 by Julia Goodman
Last week, obstructionists in Congress blocked legislation which would have extended unemployment insurance for 1.2 million Americans. What does this mean? This week 1.2 million families are wondering how they are going to feed their children and stay in their homes. [1] It doesn’t have to be this way. Tell your representatives in Congress that [...]
Posted June 24th, 2010 by Amie Newman
Cross-posted at RH Reality Check Health officials in England want to give pregnant women a breath-test. Not for alcohol, but for signs of smoking. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), according to the Telegraph, “…has recommended that all pregnant women should have their breath measured for carbon monoxide levels when they book [...]
Posted May 20th, 2010 by Catherine Calhoun
My son has a rare bone disease. I watch him suffer with bone pain – it really does get worse when it rains. He uses a wheelchair and walker. I would do absolutely anything for him to make it better – thing is though – the system is so broken there is not much that [...]
Posted May 10th, 2010 by Renee Blanchard
Government is here to do the things we can’t do for ourselves, like provide resources and mechanisms to clean up a gigantic oil spill or maintain traffic lights. In order to continue to flourish as a functional society, we need to prevent economic and environmental disasters from occurring in the first place and not simply continue to spend resources and money mitigating the impacts of their aftermath.
Posted April 6th, 2010 by Linda Blount
I’m Linda Blount, mother of two and National Vice President of Health Disparities for the American Cancer Society. Health equity is my passion. We live in a country that spends more on healthcare than any other country. Yet, despite the $2 trillion spent on healthcare last year, there are many thousands of Americans who have [...]
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