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10/21/10

"Hundreds of consumers have contacted my office, upset over Regence refusing to cover kids and for blaming its recent rate increases on health reform," said Commissioner Kreidler in a statement. "I can understand why they're confused and mad. I'm sick and tired of the insurance industry pulling these stunts and misleading the public about health reform. I expect better of companies wanting to do business in Washington."

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Health Care Food!

10/20/10

Recently I was testing recipes for the galactagogues chapter of Parents Need to Eat Too . I see you scratching your head—either you were never a nursing mom with supply problems, or you’ve blissfully erased that episode from your memory. A galactagogue is something that stimulates or promotes the...

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Debbie Koenig

10/19/10

Odds are, if you are a mom, you're one of the 72 percent of women in the United States who support the DREAM Act. [1] But we want to know why. First, a quick refresher: The DREAM Act is short for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. Currently, undocumented immigrant children...

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Mary Olivella

10/19/10

Por Mary Olivella, Elisa Batista, y Julissa Gomez Traducido con ayuda de Julissa Gomez y Ricardo Mosso 18 de octubre 2010 Es probable, si usted es madre que es parte del 72% de mujeres en los Estados Unidos que apoya la ley conocida como el “DREAM Act.” (1) Pero queremos saber sus razones. El...

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Mary Olivella

Health Care

10/19/10

Recent college grads searching for employment, young professionals whose employers do not offer coverage, and even young married couples without insurance will all be able to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until the age of 26. The following blog posts number among the many celebrating the...

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Erina Aoyama

10/18/10

In the bestselling book Three Cups of Tea , the king of Bhutan, a country in the Himalayas, is said to have remarked that the “true measure of a nation’s success is not gross national product, but ‘gross national happiness.’” Judging by this measure, America does not rank very highly. A few years...

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Jean Willard

Childcare & Early Education

10/18/10

Wonder why we’ll likely have fewer women in Congress after the November elections than we’ve had in the last three decades? [1] Well, one reason might just be because the current women running for office are too often subjected to outrageous sexist comments from media pundits and commentators--...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

10/18/10

By Brigette Courtot , National Women's Law Center “Optional maternity coverage has a very unfavorable impact on our bottom line…[t]his coverage option will be eliminated in stages.” This is just one of many illuminating quotes from insurance company leaders that can be found in a set of memos...

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Thao Nguyen

10/15/10

When my friend Brianna Cayo Cotter and I started a project called Swap for Good last spring, the idea was to raise both awareness and money for the underfunded and critical services provided by domestic violence shelters around the country. The idea behind Swap for Good is simple – encourage people...

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Orli Cotel

Environmental Health Health Care

10/15/10

What's orange, yellow, and pink all over? The month of October! Fall's here with orange pumpkins, yellow leaves-- and the "think pink" campaign of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everything is adorned with pink ribbons from yogurt cups to NFL football helmets. But our friends at the Breast Cancer...

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