Health Care

Woman looking at bills with prescription drugs sitting on a table

May 8, 2019

Prescription drug prices are continuing to rise and many families are struggling to afford life-saving prescriptions. In a recent survey by Kaiser Family Foundation, about a quarter of Americans said they’ve had trouble paying for a prescription. A QUARTER! It doesn’t have to be this way. There are...

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Felicia Burnett

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Health Care MomsRising

May 7, 2019

If there is one book I have recommended over the last five years, it is Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. Immersed as I am in caring for an older parent and surrounded as I am by friends and colleagues sorting out the same questions, this is no surprise. But what is surprising is that in spite of how...

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Mimi Chapman

Health Care Maternal Justice MomsRising Realistic & Fair Wages

May 2, 2019

How your donation is making a difference Spring has sprung and this April has been as full of progress as it has been of wildflowers! From advancing equal pay in Washington, to moving the needle on Medicaid expansion in North Carolina, to amplifying the second annual national Black Maternal Health...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Health Care Maternal Justice

May 2, 2019

We had a terrific tweetchat on Latina maternal health-- check it out!

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Tasmiha Khan

Health Care MomsVote Paid Family Leave Podcast Realistic & Fair Wages

April 29, 2019

We're back with an all new podcast this week where we cover winning fair pay in the states (and how you can make your state a winning state) with our own Washington State MomsForce Director, Maggie Humphreys. Dana Bye Campaign Director of Tax march joins us to examine #TrumpsTaxScam and how we can...

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Amber Dorsey

Health Care Maternal Justice

April 18, 2019

As midwife Jennie Joseph writes, “mothers can suffer and experience the effects of being in a living, breathing, materno-toxic zone all of their own, based on other people’s response or reaction to their race, socio-economic status, citizenship or by being “othered” while pregnant, delivering their baby or in the postpartum year, regardless of location.”

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Health Care

April 16, 2019

Medicaid ayuda a las familias a vencer las tormentas durante los tiempos de necesidad, ya sea debido a un accidente o una crisis financiera. Las familias en nuestro estado entienden cuan crítico es tener cobertura de salud para poder tener acceso a cuidado preventivo y poder ver a un doctor cuando...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care

April 15, 2019

Medicaid helps families weather the storm during times of need—whether it be during a health care crisis or a time of financial hardship. But in North Carolina, lawmakers have yet to make this critical and often life-saving program available to about half a million low-income uninsured adults. That...

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Felicia Burnett

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Health Care

April 15, 2019

It’s common sense: When families have parents who are insured, the entire family’s health and economic security improves. As moms and dads, we get it. But some of our state lawmakers seem to be having a hard time understanding what a difference health coverage through Medicaid expansion could make...

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Felicia Burnett

Medicaid Helps Families Weather The Storm

Health Care

April 15, 2019

Today is the day! We are joining with thousands of people across North Carolina for a day of action to close the health care coverage gap! Here is what you can do right now to remind lawmakers that “Medicaid helps families weather the storm” and to expand health insurance to low-income uninsured...

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Felicia Burnett