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Health reform gave my son affordable coverage

March 16, 2012
After over 10 years on the job, my 39 year-old son lost his job last year. He also lost his insurance. With pre-existing high blood pressure and pancreatitis, he was given insurance quotes of $1,200-$1,600 a month, which was completely unaffordable with only unemployment insurance income. While he...
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Donna Crane

I have been a Type-1 diabetic since childhood.

March 16, 2012
I have been a Type-1 diabetic since childhood. Unlike Type 2 diabetes (which gets more coverage and generates a lot of rage/judgment), Type 1 diabetes is genetic and so far, irreversible. I've never had a day of adolescence or adulthood without diabetes and I’ll likely have diabetes for the rest of...
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Jasmine Ong

I believe everyone should have access to health care

March 16, 2012
I am a 35 year-old father of one son with another on the way any day. A few months ago, I was diagnosed with a kidney disease. I have always supported the Affordable Care Act because I believe everyone should have access to health care. Little did I know that it would be important to me. Right now...
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Akbar Rahman

I am so grateful for health reform

March 16, 2012
I've been a teacher my whole adult life, teaching abroad. My health care was covered by my employers until returning to the U.S. several years ago. I was shocked to learn how expensive health care was here. To get an affordable plan, I tried various indemnity/discount plans, but was not covered...
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Peggy Jenks

We pray every day that my daughter's health holds up

March 16, 2012
Our sweet, beautiful daughter was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at the age of 25. During her first MS event, she was uninsured and the bills from that treatment alone required her to declare bankruptcy. And if that’s not bad enough, because she now has a pre-existing condition, she cannot...
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Mary Tabatcher
Paid Family Leave

New Resources to Raise Awareness of California Paid Family Leave

March 16, 2012
This year, we are celebrating the 10th year anniversary of the passage of a pioneering law for California’s working families. In 2002, a coalition of unions and community organizations including the Labor Project for Working Families successfully passed the first Paid Family Leave (PFL) law in the...
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Vibhuti Mehra
Environmental Health

UPDATED - Everybody Breathes! A Blog Carnival to Launch MomsRising’s Campaign to Protect Clean Air

March 16, 2012
Clean air. Families need it, we definitely want it, but we’re not getting it. One would think that clean air is a no-brainer, but for some corporations, tunnel vision has gotten in the way of clear thinking. In fact, right now, many corporate representatives in Washington, D.C., are so focused on...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Environmental Health

Senate Should Turn Back Effort to Let Pollution Cross State Lines

March 16, 2012
This article was co-authored by Julie K. Schnell, president of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. A race to the bottom is underway in America. We are witnessing a brazen assault on fundamental safeguards for our air and water and the health of our children. This year, the Clean Air Act itself has come...
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Michelle Hesterberg
Environmental Health

Gasping for Air

March 16, 2012
Gasping for air, breathing treatments, congestion, coughing and exhaustion is how I spent most of my childhood. The countless birthdays, holidays and special occasions as a regular visitor of the emergency room, or admitted with pneumonia framed the majority of my childhood. I did not have the...
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LaShaun Martin
Environmental Health

5 Reasons Why We Need the EPA

March 16, 2012
In the clean air fight, opponents of the Mercury Standards and Toxics Rules have begun to step up their game with fresh attacks on the EPA. There is an apparent collective Congressional brain fog about the history and origins of the EPA, the agency established as a bipartisan effort under...
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Gina Carroll

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