Health Care

September 22, 2014

If you just switched jobs, have a fluctuating income as a small business owner, or work as a contractor—you may need to report income changes if you purchased a health plan on the health insurance marketplace this last enrollment period. More info after the jump...

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Jeannina Perez

Health Care Open Flexible Work

September 15, 2014

“Are you listening to your life–what is it trying to tell you?” Renee Trudeau Stephen Cope, MSW, author and director of Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living says retreats don’t change our lives as much as they change where we stand in relationship to our lives—and our capacity to see the...

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Renee Trudeau

Raise your voice!

Health Care

September 11, 2014

I serve zucchini at least twice a month in my house. Each time it's the same story: my seven-year-old son tells me he doesn't like it (because it's a vegetable - "Yuck Mom!"). Then I remind him that he does actually like it and ask him to try it anyway because it's good for him. It takes some...

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Felicia Burnett

Family Economic Security Health Care

September 9, 2014

I have relied on Medicaid for both my daughter and I on and off since she was a toddler. Not long after graduating with my MA in Family Counseling, my daughter and I were left without health insurance, since I was no longer allowed to purchase the university's group health plan. With my first job...

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Anna

Family Economic Security Food! Health Care

September 2, 2014

A provision was added to the Affordable Care Act in 2010 requiring that employers “provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child...and a place, other than a bathroom...which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.” The health benefits of breastfeeding for babies and mothers is widely known. Did you know that employers benefit, too?

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Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka

Health Care

September 1, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . Ayer, me uní a miles de otros Tejanos para marchar en el Capitolio y enviar el mensaje de que el Medicaid de Texas importa. La marcha, la coalición y las visitas legislativas organizadas por Texas Well and Healthy unieron a las personas de todas...

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Charlie Rose

Health Care

September 1, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . YONKERS, NY — Consumer Reports, la organización de servicio al consumidor sin fines de lucro que ha estado empoderando a los consumidores por más de 75 años, lanzó HealthLawHelper.org, una herramienta de internet innovadora que ofrece una guía...

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Elena Chavez

Health Care

September 1, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . No estar asegurado significa que usted frecuentemente tiene que esperarar hasta que "se acabe" su enfermedad, o sólo busca tratamiento cuando las cosas están realmente mal. He estado en esa situación. Lo he hecho. ¿Pero no sería grandioso que un...

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Letisha Marrero

Health Care

September 1, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . En unos cuantos días el registro para el seguro de cuidado de salud estará abierto. Las encuestas de opiniones públicas muestran que aún hay mucha confusión sobre cómo funcionará Obamacare. Los oponentes del Congreso de la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a...

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Marielena Hincapie

Health Care

September 1, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . Siendo la hija de dos padres con limitadas competencias sobre el idioma Inglés, soy parte de la generación duo-lingüe (en mi caso Espanglés) que se extiende sobre la delgada línea entre niño, traductor, y profesor para sus padres . Yo odiaba este rol...

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Jeannina Perez