VIDEO: Senator Reid Expresses Support for Public Option And Elimination of Health Disparities Faced by Women and Disabled

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

October 20, 2009 - 12:18pm (Print)

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met with other Senate leaders to discuss health reform legislation.  During this brief video Senator Reid expresses his support for a public option in the final health care bill, and also declares the time has come to end denial of health insurance based on sex, disability and other "pre-existing" conditions.

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On Contraceptive Coverage, It's Not Up to Obama to Decide What is More "Catholic"

by Frances Kissling
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The President seems unaware of the fact that Catholics who matter have disagreed with the Vatican’s current prohibition on contraception. Catholics, including institutions within the Catholic community, are free to follow their conscience on contraception. It is not up to the Obama administration to decide what action is more “Catholic" on the matter of contraception.

The Other 99 Percent: Will Obama Betray Them?

by Carole Joffe
Nov 20, 9:09pm
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There is another 99 percent group in our country, distinct from but inextricably entwined with the now more familiar #99Percent. I refer to the 99 percent of American women who have ever had sexual intercourse and have used a birth control method at least some of the time.

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