This week on MomsRising Radio With Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner we discuss birth control, yummy & healthy foods, fitness programs that work, getting pre-existing conditions covered–and how to get access to affordable health care. It’s National Women’s Health Week and we’ll cover it all on this show. *The following guests join Kristin this week on 1480 AM WeAct [...]
Click here to read the article in English. Como mamá ocupada que trabaja, y la única proveedora de mi familia, yo he trabajado mucho y me he divertido mucho. No quería que a mis hijos les faltara lo que podrían haber tenido en una familia con dos padres. Como resultado, me hundí a mi misma, [...]
Health and fitness advice from an Olympic champion in swimming? With three pre-teenage children, full-time employment, and a frequently-traveling husband, I too find it hard to make sports and fitness a priority. In preparation for the Olympics, I swam 800 laps a day, and consistently ran and lifted weights. Even after retirement I’ve generally maintained [...]
Today I’m writing for Momsrising in support of National Women’s Healthcare Week. Why do women need their own healthcare week you might ask? Head shaking—because if mom gets sick who will remember that you only like your macaroni and cheese with rotini pasta? Or that the reason you refuse to wear those perfectly nice pants is a matter [...]
More than 3 years after Congress enacted the Affordable Care Act, both the House and Senate are still holding hearings on the law, covering everything from how the Administration is working to implement the law to what it will mean for our health insurance system in 2014. Recently, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
House budget chairman Paul Ryan has released a proposed federal budget that would derail much of the progress we’re making in improving health access for uninsured and underinsured women and families. The Ryan budget plan includes $4.6 trillion dollars in cuts; 59% ($2.7 trillion) of which would come from cutting health programs. It would defund [...]
I know first hand that Medicaid saves lives and reduces medical costs. When I was pregnant with my son, I went into preterm labor at 26 weeks. I had medical coverage through Medicaid, so when I noticed that something felt off, I went directly to the hospital. Without Medicaid, I would have been reluctant to [...]
Michael Morgan, founder and Executive Director of the African American Music Foundation, visited my church this week to celebrate Black History Month. During morning service his thrilling bass voice highlighted an inspiring memorial to Paul Robeson. That afternoon he delivered a recital and lecture on spirituals to an overflow crowd. I’ve been humming these spirituals [...]
It’s amazing how much technology has advanced in just 15 years. Back in the mid-1990s, the internet was new and everyone was still learning how to use it. Flash forward to today, and you might be reading this blog on your phone! While enormous medical and technological advancements have been made over the last century, [...]
[Cross-posted from the Rio Arriba Community Health Council Blog.] Recently, after months of silence, New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez became one of several Republicans to blur the Right’s anti-socialist line in the sand by adopting Medicaid expansion. As New Mexico is surpassed only by Texas in its ranks of uninsured, and leads almost every list [...]
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