Health Care

February 7, 2011

When I was pregnant with my first baby, I spent a fair amount of time daydreaming about what maternity leave would be like: Leisurely walks in the park, spending time gardening in the back yard while my baby slept peacefully in her bouncy seat, restful hours spent cuddling a smiling gurgling cooing...

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Ruth Martin

Health Care

February 5, 2011

Two years ago this week, Congress and President Obama delivered bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known here in California as Healthy Families. We are offering a birthday observation for the new law, and we can all celebrate the gift of health this law...

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Children's Defense Fund

Health Care

February 4, 2011

Today is an important day for kids and their families all across the country. On this day, we celebrate the second anniversary of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, which President Obama signed into law, making it possible for this program to continue providing health...

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Kathleen Sebelius

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

February 3, 2011

Getting a child into sports and keeping them there is one of the best decisions a parent will make. While your kids do it for the fun, research on the life-long benefits of a sports experience gives parents even more motivation to schlep kids to those practices. Contrary to the “dumb jock” myth,...

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Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work Health Care

February 2, 2011

By Portia Wu, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families , and Megan Renner, executive director of the United States Breastfeeding Committee . Every year roughly four million women give birth in the United States, and most of them (more than three-quarters) start out...

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Portia Wu

Health Care

February 1, 2011

On January 10th, Governor Jerry Brown released an 18-month proposed budget plan aimed at closing a $25.4 billion shortfall for fiscal years 2010-11 and 2011-12. The plan calls for a 5-year extension of tax increases previously approved under the Schwarzenegger Administration as well as $12.5...

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Ellen Wu

Health Care

January 31, 2011

Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0 . I have been watching Clint Eastwood films lately and thinking about his role in fueling the belittlement of government. In Dirty Harry , for example, the Eastwood character is a loner who stands up to lily-livered bureaucrats who lack the cojones to do what needs to...

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Joan C. Williams

Health Care

January 27, 2011

Amidst the generally gloomy news out of California about our budget crisis and cuts to vital services, there is one very bright spot: California is a step closer to insuring 700,000 children who go without coverage today with its recent launch of public access to Health-e-App. For the first time,...

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Wendy Lazarus

Health Care

January 26, 2011

Q: I supported health care reform and was so elated when it passed, however . . . Now I hear of cuts in payments to doctors for Medicare. Many doctors refuse Medicare patients already, but with more cuts there will be no medical care for seniors. Supplement plans won't cover anything that Medicare...

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Michealle Gady

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work Health Care

January 21, 2011

Bravo, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin! Yesterday, the nation’s top doctor had the courage to say simply and starkly that mothers who breastfeed their babies need more support. In the “ Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding ,” the Surgeon General challenged all sectors of our society to support...

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