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Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages

09/24/10

Originally posted on RH Reality Check There’s a lot of talk this week about the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA) and its chances for passage as Congress is set to adjourn, and head home for campaign season. The act is a necessary next-step piece of legislation when it comes to protection against gender-...

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Amie Newman

Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/24/10

As a pediatrician, I see the best and the worst of our health care system. I see very ill children whose families cannot afford to get them the medicine or treatment they need. I see children who have not received basic preventive care and who are sicker than they should be. I see children who have...

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Laura Mabie, MD

09/24/10

It’s a landmark day for health reform, with many laws in the Affordable Care Act taking effect. As we celebrate, it’s a good time to pause, and to remember the larger purpose of our health care system, and of medical care. Medicine has always been grounded in humanitarian ideals, as reflected in...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/23/10

Major new health reform benefits take effect today to help keep health insurance companies accountable, lower health care costs, guarantee more health care choices, and enhance the quality of health care for all Americans. Starting today, insurers will be required to: Keep you covered when you get...

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John Larson

Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/23/10

In the six months since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, we have been hard at work implementing the law and focusing on putting consumers ahead of insurance companies. Already, millions of Americans are seeing the benefits: Nearly 4 million employees working for small...

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Kathleen Sebelius

Health Care Blog Carnivals Environmental Health

09/23/10

Priorities. This amigos and amigas changes with each season of life. When we're younger, we want to be the center of el universo. In our teen years, we want to be heard. In our early twenties, we want to be accomplished young women. Then comes amor, marriage, kids and all in all... life. Sometime,...

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Liz Cerezo

Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/23/10

Por los 17 años que trabajé como trabajadora de elegibilidad por MediCal, un programa social para gente de bajos recursos, estuve en contacto con muchas personas sin seguro médico. Los insegurados incluían mujeres embarazadas, jovenes menos de 20 años de edad, y también personas, que aunque ganaban...

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Luz Villafana

Health Care

09/23/10

My kids can tell you, I'm an expert worrier. I worry about whether I'm pushing them too hard or maybe not pushing them hard enough; whether their fear of vegetables will cause permanent damage to them; and whether they are getting enough exercise or alternatively, whether their favorite exercise of...

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Donna Norton

Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/23/10

While some politicians, pundits, and prognosticators have taken to the airwaves to claim that the Affordable Care Act is too complicated, cumbersome, and doomed to failure; people who are actually affected by the new law are excited about its implementation. How do we know that? They’re telling us...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Health Care Blog Carnivals

09/23/10

I've seen Health Care here in the US from different angles. I had a full time job for a long time that gave me "benefits", those benefits included great Health Care. When I first got in I had no idea what this meant, or that I really had it good. I only paid about $20 co-pays for doctor visits, I...

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Dariela Cruz