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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor November 4, 2009 - 2:23pm
Time is running out to ask your Senators to sponsor an amendment that would ensure Certified Professional Midwives are covered under Medicaid, in the Senate health care reform bill. Midwifery gives low risk pregnant and birthing women a safe option and reduces overall costs in health care as well!
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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor October 30, 2009 - 1:30pm
Are anti-choice Democrats fighting health reform in the House over federal funds for abortion coverage or are they crying wolf - again?
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 26, 2009 - 3:05pm
In a press conference at 3:15 pm today on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that the Senate will include an "opt-out" public option in its version of the health care reform bill. States would have the ability to "opt-out" of participating in the plan. Shortly thereafter, Senator Max Baucus, a key Democrat who earlier had stated opposition to a public option, released a statement in support of it.
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By Amie Newman, Managing Editor October 14, 2009 - 4:02pm
When some women are literally begging their midwife not to transfer them to a hospital because they can't afford to pay the costs associated with a hospital birth, or women must spend part of their pregnancy searching for ways to pay for prenatal care instead of actually getting the care they need, we're talking about a crisis of coverage in this country.
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By Jill Alliman, American Association of Birth Centers October 8, 2009 - 6:00am
Despite the financial resources commanded by hospital-based birth
services, many experts, economists, and advocates are alarmed at the state of U.S. maternity care, which is driven by high rates of unproven medical interventions.
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To most Americans, single-payer health care seems like political science fiction, but most don’t realize we already have single-payer options: Medicare (for the aged) and Medicaid (for the poor). Jennifer Nix knows first hand about single payer....
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By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor October 1, 2009 - 8:04am
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee have come up with all sorts of approaches designed to kill the Democrats’ plans to expand Medicaid to cover most everyone living beneath 133 percent of the poverty line, or roughly $29,000 for a family of four.
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By Todd Heywood, New Journalist Fellow October 1, 2009 - 7:53am
Shortly before 2 p.m. the Michigan Senate approved the budget for the Michigan Department of Community Health. The vote was 20-17.
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The president and his staff have been reluctant to take on reproductive rights in health reform. But that has not prevented anti-choicers from using the issue to activate their base against reform.
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