The night before the Senate plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act was unveiled, activists around the country gathered to protest the onslaught of attacks on women’s health by the Trump administration.
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The Fight to Protect Reproductive Health Care Has Begun
Thousands of reproductive-rights advocates gathered outside of the Supreme Court today as the eight justices heard oral arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the biggest abortion-related case to go before […]
The President, Personal Stories and Health Care Reform
I’ve been a proponent of telling personal stories to make a political point for as long as I’ve worked in women’s health. I’ve seen firsthand how powerful a story can […]
Know Your November Ballot: Health Care
In the weeks leading up to Election Day, Ms. will be outlining state ballot initiatives and referenda of major significance to women. When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act […]
What Health Care Reform Means to Women
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need For the tenth #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the new health-reform law, […]
#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 […]
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 insurance […]
A Preventive Health Care Game-Changer for Women
In a huge victory for women’s health, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report today advised that birth control and seven other women’s health services should be considered “preventive care” and […]
The Latest Threat to Health Care
By Andrea Grimes Elected officials often talk about “mandates” from their constituents. But what happens when those mandates aren’t coming from voters but corporate representatives who pay top dollar to […]
How Come Funding For Global Health Care Leads to Poorer Health?
Wherever they fall on the scale of economic development, most countries generally provide some form of health care to the poor and sick. So what happens when that public responsibility […]