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Health Care Reform: Philanthropy’s Educational Role

Think the debate over health care reform is over? Not a chance — and not just because Election Day is fast approaching. President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in late March after nearly a year of debate and delib… Continue reading

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GOP Gov. Pawlenty And Dem Sen. Wyden Prove Health Care Reform Is Not A Federal Government Takeover

Soon after Congress passed health care reform, Minnesota Gov. and likely ’12 presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty decried that “we now have the federal government reaching so far inside our society, dictating whether human behavior is good or not.” A fe… Continue reading

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HUFFPOST HILL – AUGUST 31ST, 2010

An eclectic variety of teats dominated the mediasphere today. Deficit commission co-chair Alan Simpson — who took a break from heckling the Muppets with Statler and Waldorf to label Social Security a “milk cow with 310 million tits” — garnered more n… Continue reading

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Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan: 1,200 People Approved So Far

Just 1,200 people have been approved so far for a new program to provide insurance coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.The program, known as the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, launched in July as one of the immediate benefits of the… Continue reading

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Koch Brothers Called Out for Waging War Against Obama

Jane Mayer, reporting on The New Yorker magazine, has written a comprehensive article entitled: “Covert Operations, The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama”. In it, Mayer gives an exhaustive report on the Koch brothers’ funding of … Continue reading

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Health Care Advocates Deny They’ve Lost The Messaging War

Key White House allies are pushing back against a report that they’ve abandoned their initial efforts to sell health care reform and are instead trying to win over voters by promising to “improve” the legislation.Advocates acknowledged to the Huffingto… Continue reading

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Is the Labor Movement Speaking for Its Female Members?

Karen Nausbamm, the director of the AFL-CIO’s Working America, has a penchant for pointing out that the AFL-CIO is the largest women’s organization in the country. In fact, the AFL-CIO comprises about six million dues-paying women, who represent 45 per… Continue reading

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Defining Women’s Role in Health Care Reform

As mothers, daughters, wives and leaders of households, women often steer the health care choices of families. Thus in the coming years, women will also be a major force toward implementing health care reform and the landmark Affordable Care Act.Whenev… Continue reading

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Latinas and the High Cost of Birth Control

After Jersey Garcia welcomed her first baby earlier this year in a planned pregnancy, she was shocked to learn that, despite having health insurance through her employer, she couldn’t afford to resume her birth control. The IUD had been her reliable f… Continue reading

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Post Racial What?… Codes, Language & A New Paradigm

Why is it so hard to talk about race and why are these conversations so politically charged?Historical roots notwithstanding, the Shirley Sherrod affair yet again points out that we’re addressing the wrong problem. President Obama offered that rationa… Continue reading

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