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Health Reform: A Lifesaving Prescription for Women

March 24, 2011
The Affordable Care Act is one year old today. Thanks to this law, millions of women across America will have real and equal access to health care coverage for the first time in their lives. Many improvements will be seen as the full law is phased in during the coming years. For instance, health...
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Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis
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The Health Care Law- A Year Later: Reflections

March 24, 2011
As I've been thinking about what angle to take when writing my blog post to mark the one year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, I've reflected on the many posts I've already written about the law and its benefits, both for me personally, and writ large. And then it struck me, there are numerous reasons to celebrate this law, and like the hokey-pokey, that's what it’s all about!
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Stephanie Drahan
Health Care

On the Anniversary of the ACA: A Family Perspective on What It Means for Kids

March 24, 2011
As communities across the nation celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, CCF marked the event in its traditional style - by issuing an issue brief. It has the facts about how the Affordable Care Act will affect children, but also stories from families whose children have...
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Jocelyn Guyer
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Healthy Food Procurement Policies Stress Prevention on National, State, and Local Levels

March 24, 2011
The United States Department of Health and Human Services unveiled its Health and Sustainability Guidelines for Federal Concessions and Vending Operations . This strategy of prevention coincides with First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign to create a generation of healthier children in...
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Ellen Wu
Health Care

Money for Sucking: Investing in Maternity Care

March 23, 2011
The budget debates currently paralyzing Washington include proposals that significantly cut funding for public health initiatives, all while our nation fights an exploding epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and chronic preventable illness that cost our nation billions of dollars a year in medical costs...
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Melissa Bartick
Health Care

A Time for Celebration and Action

March 23, 2011
by Kristen Thompson One year ago today, President Obama signed the historic Affordable Care Act. I was invigorated then – along with millions of Americans – by the promise it held for the health and well-being of our nation, and most importantly, our nation’s children! Today, even as opponents try...
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Children's Defense Fund
Health Care

A Lifetime Limit Would Limit Violet's Life on Earth

March 23, 2011
Let's face it. At some point, we all get sick. And, sometimes lightning strikes and we, or our families, get sicker than we ever even wanted to imagine. Most people plan for healthy lives, try to eat healthy, and regularly pay insurance premiums. So it's not until lightning strikes that people...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
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A Wish List for Moms & Moms-to-be

March 23, 2011
Co-Authored by Michelle Noehren & Michelle Pompei We’ve been advocates for women’s rights for a while and while we have been big supporters of advocating for working moms in particular, nothing really prepared us for what life would be like as we each started our own families. The inequities...
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Michelle Noehren
Health Care

Happy One Year Anniversary to the Affordable Care Act! A Blog-a-Thon to Keep America Moving Forward

March 23, 2011
As parents and caregivers know, reaching that first birthday is a big milestone. A lot of work and loving care is behind us, even as we look forward to the next stages of development. But who knew that we'd feel a similar sense of accomplishment with the one year anniversary of the passage of a law...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Health Care

How the Affordable Care Act Has Helped My Family

March 23, 2011
Before the Affordable Care Act, it was difficult for many members of my family to obtain coverage due to “pre-existing conditions.” Our family’s medical history includes our father's death due to a heart attack and stroke in 1990. Alzheimer’s disease is present in both our mother's side and father'...
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