healthcare
Posted August 1st, 2012 by Cynthia Liu
It’s almost too good to believe, but it’s true! And all the better because we fought hard for it — first through the Affordable Care Act’s passage, and then when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops objected to free coverage of contraceptives through women’s employer-provided health insurance. We stared the religious right down and we [...]
Posted July 10th, 2012 by Ashley Boyd
Ah, the call of the ice cream truck. The minute he hears the music from a distance, my four year-old begins begging, “Can I have an ice cream?!” He tries every possible approach – when I say no, he corners his father, and has even resorted to asking a neighbor to buy one for him. These [...]
Posted July 2nd, 2012 by Dawn Averitt
By Dawn Averitt Bridge Founder and Chair, The Well Project June 28 is a day I’ll never forget: the anniversary of my HIV diagnosis. It was 1988. I was only 19, and didn’t know a single other HIV-positive woman. Misinformation and fear dominated the public conversation on AIDS; everyone knew AIDS was a death [...]
Posted June 27th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg and Mark Ryan
Recently, MomsRising hosted a #kidshealth tweetchat with Dr. Mark Ryan (@richmonddoc), who answered your questions about everything from childhood asthma to breastfeeding to first dentist appointments, and more! Dr. Ryan is a family doctor in Richmond, VA and a member of the board of the National Physicians Alliance. He works mostly with medically under-served communities, [...]
Posted June 20th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
3.1 million people are newly insured because of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that lets young adults to stay on their parents’ health care plans up to age 26. That is amazing. I graduated four years ago, and I saw the fallout firsthand of a bad economy and a generation of young people [...]
Posted April 11th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg and Ashley Wheeland
A few weeks ago, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative hosted an informative Facebook chat with MomsRising about the Affordable Care Act. Here are a few commonly asked questions on pregnancy, kids, and health reform, with expert answers and resources from Ashley Wheeland from the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. What if I get pregnant then lose my [...]
Posted April 4th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg and Ashley Wheeland
Want to know how health reform helps women? Not sure what preventive services to ask for? Unclear on which women’s health services will be available this August? We’ve got answers! A few weeks ago, the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative hosted an informative Facebook chat with MomsRising about the Affordable Care Act. Here are a few [...]
Posted March 22nd, 2012 by Ann O'Leary
Next week, a very adult conversation begins at the U.S. Supreme Court, but much of it will have an enormous impact on children. For three days, lawyers will argue over the constitutionality of two major provisions in the Affordable Care Act—the so-called “individual mandate,” requiring most Americans to have health insurance, and the Medicaid expansion, [...]
Posted March 21st, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
Happy second birthday, health care reform! This week is the two year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Over the past two years, millions of families have been helped by health care reform, and when new provisions kick in 2014, millions more will have access to crucial health care coverage for themselves and their [...]
Posted March 12th, 2012 by Ellen Wu
Our Equity and the ACA webinar series got off to a great start in January with a presentation from Peter Lee of the California Health Benefit Exchange, and our next web forum promises to be equally interesting and informative. Of the 6.7 million Californians eligible for Medi-Cal and tax credits in the Health Benefit Exchange [...]
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