The passage of health reform brought many wonderful new protections and benefits for Americans. Unfortunately, for women, these protections and benefits came with a price tag. States now have the choice to either allow abortion coverage to be included in the state health exchange – with women having to pay for the coverage with a [...]
When it rains it pours, and that’s a bad thing when it comes to discrimination against mothers. We recently wrote about a mom whose application for a mortgage loan was turned down because she was on maternity leave, and we also shared the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has launched [...]
The Housing and Urban Development Agency is filing charges of housing discrimination against Pennsylvania property owners and managers who wouldn’t rent to a mother and her daughter. Outrageous! MomsRising applauds the action HUD is taking to investigate and correct discrimination against families seeking housing. See HUD’s press release below. And if you have experienced being [...]
A new series of national public service advertisements designed to encourage consumers to get involved in their health care by knowing and asking appropriate questions when visiting their doctors or other clinicians was launched today by the U.S.
MomsRising.org member Tracie, like many other Californians in this recession, is struggling for the first time to provide healthcare coverage for her kids.
Let’s get those lifesavers out of storage!
This past Wednesday, the New York Post published a cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, to a deranged chimpanzee. It caused an outrage. Al Sharpton led a protest march in front of the New York Post headquarters in New York City and asked people to boycott the newspaper. His concern took hold.
Great news! Thanks to your incredible advocacy, the U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to expand children’s health coverage through a strong re-authorization of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week. Congress is on the right track by demonstrating that kids are a top priority.
More than 162,000 eligible children are at risk of falling through safety net and losing hope of needed health coverage.
I’m a self-proclaimed optimist and hopeful about the “yes, we can” message emanating from Washington. But I felt as if I’d been kicked in the gut last week when I read a New York Times article by Robert Pear about price gauging in health policies for women.
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