From Kaiser Family Foundation Oct 06, 2017 | Laurie Sobel, Alina Salganicoff Follow @a_salganicoff on Twitter, and Caroline Rosenzweig The Trump Administration has issued new regulations that significantly broaden employers’ ability to be exempt from the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive coverage requirement. The regulation opens the door […]
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Should Your Boss Dictate Your Family Planning Options? President Trump Thinks So. Georgeanne M. Usova, Washington Legislative Office & Brigitte Amiri, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project OCTOBER 6, 2017 | 4:00 PM (ACLU Blog) President Donald Trump finally made it clear today. He believes business owners […]
The United States really is exceptional We spend more money per capita on guns, and health care, than any other country on Earth. This represents a failure of public policy of the highest order and a threat to our democracy. Let’s look at the numbers. Americans […]
Join NurseTalk and hear Wendell Potter, one-time health insurance industry insider, speak of the epiphany that transformed his life. He vividly describes a scene he witnessed at a county fairgrounds where uninsured Americans were lined up “by the hundreds” to be treated in […]
Trump doesn’t need Congress to help him sabotage Obamacare Repeal and replace is dead for now, but that won’t stop the White House from taking matters into its own hands. Khatami, Elham. (2017, September 27, 2:43 pm). Think Progress. Following the failure of the latest […]
The Fight for Single Payer Has Transformed the Healthcare Debate. Last Night Was Proof. During CNN’s Monday night debate about the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that progressives have set the terms of discussion. Anderson, Theo. (2017, September 26). In These Times. The grassroots […]
A Canadian Doctor Explains How Her Country’s Single-Payer Health Care System Works . . . While single-payer is defined and implemented differently in different countries, Danielle Martin, a Canadian physician, says there are a lot of misconceptions about how the plans work. Martin, who is also […]
Podcast of Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on Nurse Talk Media discussing the devastating impact that the Graham-Cassidy bill would have had on Medicaid. As of September 26, 2017 at 7 am PDT, the bill appears to be headed for defeat according to CNN. […]