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Nearly All States Have Taken First Steps in Implementing Affordable Care Act

March 23, 2012
By Kevin Lucia, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute's Center on Health Insurance Studies When a child turns two, it's natural to take stock of all the milestones they have achieved such as first steps, first words and first solid foods. Some parents are even organized enough to document...
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Health Care

Offering Medicaid Coverage to More Uninsured People is a Popular Affordable Care Act Provision

March 23, 2012
By Joan Alker, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families One of the least often discussed provisions of the Affordable Care Act continues to be one of the most popular according to the latest Kaiser Health News tracking poll. Seventy percent of those responding to the poll thought...
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Family Economic Security

Women's History We Still Live With Today

March 23, 2012
March is women's history month and I wanted to share a few tidbits of women's history that are even less commonly known than most, and history that is still impacting the lives of women and mothers today. Did you know that… When the Social Security act was adopted in the late 1930's, the Council...
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Kristin Maschka
Health Care

Arizona 15th State to Ban Shackling Pregnant Women in Labor

March 23, 2012
Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law a measure to limit the shackling of pregnant women, bringing the number of states with such laws on the books to 15. The new law applies to state and county prisons and jails, and prohibits shackling during transportation to the hospital to give birth...
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Rachel Roth
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HERvotes Blog Carnival: What Health Care Reform Means to Women

March 23, 2012
For the tenth #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the new health-reform law, the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Photo of Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, from Wikimedia Commons. Why are women so excited about the ACA? Well, for a start,...
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Cindy Pearson

¿Cuando Comenzaré a Beneficiarme de la Reforma Médica?

March 22, 2012
A casi dos años de la Reforma Médica se puede decir que se ha dado un paso adelante en el camino correcto. Muchas familias se han beneficiado con los cambios y esto a la larga nos beneficiará a todos. La posibilidad de contar con seguro médico para niños con condiciones preexistentes, incluir a los...
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Silvia Martinez
Health Care

Kids Should be Part of This Adult Conversation

March 22, 2012
Next week, a very adult conversation begins at the U.S. Supreme Court, but much of it will have an enormous impact on children. For three days, lawyers will argue over the constitutionality of two major provisions in the Affordable Care Act—the so-called “individual mandate,” requiring most...
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Ann O'Leary

'We Belong Together' Delegates Report from Alabama

March 22, 2012
This story originally appeared on Thursday, March 22, in the We Belong Together website . BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Together, we are a diverse group of women leaders representing national advocacy communities. We represent faith-based, legal, human rights, worker rights, civil rights, immigrant rights...
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Alabama Delegates

La ley de cuidado de salud a bajo precio y las familias latinas – ¡Un carnaval de MomsRising/MamásConPoder.org!

March 22, 2012
For English, click here El 23 de marzo celebramos el segundo aniversario de la histórica ley de cuidado de salud a bajo precio (o Affordable Care Act en inglés). Creo firmemente que todos los estadounidenses, incluyendo los hispanos, tienen derecho a un cuidado de salud de calidad que esté a su...
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Robert Menendez

The Black Mother's Burden

March 22, 2012
I do not know Sybrina Fulton. Nor can I claim to understand the depth of her pain. Yet, we share a deep connection. A commonality experienced by those women who face the challenge of raising a Black male child in a nation that far too often views Black male bodies through a prism of fear. You see,...
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Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D.

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