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Puerto Rico: Now, It's the Island's Turn to Work on Health Care

September 20, 2010
SAN JUAN -- Barack Obama's healthcare reform will benefit Puerto Rico with $6.6 billion more than the $4.8 expected for Medicaid between 2011 and 2019. After the healthcare bill passed on March 21, Puerto Rico began to look at the next decade which will be crucial for the Island to step up to the...
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Natalia Bonilla
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California is Blazing a Trail on Establishing Health Insurance Exchange Under ACA

September 20, 2010
And we’re off! Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is officially underway! Less than six months after Congress passed the ACA, California has blazed the trail as the first state in the nation to create a statewide Health Insurance Exchange under the Act. Two complementary pieces of...
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Kristen Golden Testa
Health Care Blog Carnivals

Anger, Threats and Fear - six months later

September 20, 2010
The health care bill passed six months ago. Many people are still angry. Some are making threats. Others fear this new law will take away their freedom instead of improving the quality of their lives. Anger, threats, fear…I understand those feelings and share them, but in a very different way. I am...
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Dawn Comer Jefferson
Health Care Blog Carnivals

Health Benefits Can Provide Real Benefits for My Friends Peter, Greta and baby Thomas

September 20, 2010
Honestly, health reform feels so last year. The effort to pass reform was epic, with so many near-death and nail-bitter moments, my political junky self was so ready to move on. A year ago, the town hall protests about health reform were all I could think about but today, I’m thinking more about...
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Ashley Boyd
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Children’s Lives Will Be Changed For the Better

September 20, 2010
As we mark the six-month anniversary of the passage of health reform, families have much to celebrate today as several key provisions of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go into effect for children. While there are a wide array of opinions on both sides of the aisle on the new law...
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Lisa Shapiro
Health Care Blog Carnivals

Young Invincibles- What Getting Covered Means for Young People

September 20, 2010
September 23 is the day that an important part of the new health care law- a provision that allows young adults to stay on their parent's insurance until age 2- becomes law. It's the day that many young Americans will gain the security and peace of mind that comes with knowing you can get covered...
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Aaron Smith
Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

Changing the World One Mother at a Time

September 20, 2010
I am a mother. I am lots of other things but as society continues to discount and undervalue this role, it is easy to get frustrated and not claim it as loudly as I should. The world talks about how important mothers are. Yet often mothers are the last ones on the list to be asked for their opinion...
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Chrysula Winegar

Pics and Tips from the Latino2 Conference

September 19, 2010
My blog, by the way, is MotherTalkers . LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- On Saturday, I had the privilege to participate on a panel discussion at the Latino2 Conference , which took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Hosted by the non-profit group Latinos in Social Media , Latino2 is an event to...
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Elisa Batista
Environmental Health

Lead Found in PVC Children’s Products (again)

September 17, 2010
It seems that sometimes I can’t turn around without hearing another story about lead popping up in some children’s PVC product. Plastics make it possible, right ? Last week, CNN reported that new testing by Consumer Reports magazine found elevated levels of lead in children’s vinyl rain coats...
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Mike Schade
Environmental Health Health Care

First we are grandparents

September 16, 2010
The following awesome letter to parents and grandparents was written by Nancy Myers, who works at the nonprofit organization, Science and Environmental Health Network , www.sehn.org . We are among the many people now trying to figure out how to stop the toxic assault on our children. If you, dear...
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Alice Shabecoff

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