HERvotes: Why I Support the Health Care Law

As the Supreme Court begins hearings that could spell the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, the Ms. Blog will highlight what the act has done–and will do–for women. Here, Amy Cotton ...Read More

Is Obama Caving to Bishops out of Misplaced “Gratitude”?

According to an inside scoop from RHReality Check, President Obama is leaning toward bowing to pressure from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to exempt religiously affiliated organizations ...Read More

#HERvotes Blog Carnival Takes on Health Care

Welcome to the third #HERvotes Blog Carnival! This time, the focus is on women and health care. The blog posts below contain lots of information about the new benefits from the Affordable Care Act, ...Read More

It’s in the Law: Breaking Down What’s In It For You in the Affordable Care Act

Greater protections against insurance company abuses: NO MORE RESCISSIONS: Insurance companies are prohibited from dropping your coverage if you become sick. NO MORE LIFETIME LIMITS: Insurance companies ...Read More

“Care,” the New Four-Letter Word

Thank you Affordable Care Act. In the current political climate it is rare to hear praise for this important legislation that the last Congress fought so hard to pass. Healthcare Reform has become ...Read More

Weathering Health Inequality

A hypothesis with legs. In the early 1990s, Arline Geronimus proposed a simple yet profound explanation for why Black women on average were having children at younger ages than White women, which ...Read More

Better Health Care for Millions of Women? The Right Wing Is Outraged, Outraged!

When Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last week that birth control and other women’s preventive health care services would be covered by health ...Read More

Birth Control Pills … Or a Frappuccino?

As the Ms. Blog reported yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require all health insurers to fully cover women’s preventative health services, including birth control. ...Read More

Catholic Death Panels Coming to a Hospital Near You

When you have a medical emergency, you want to get to the nearest hospital–fast. But if you’re a pregnant woman with a medical emergency, the nearest hospital may refuse to treat you if it’s ...Read More

U.S. Flunks Women’s Health

Kids might dread that report card that comes every winter, but a nationwide report card on women’s health doesn’t make officials nearly as anxious as it should. According to the National ...Read More

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