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Don’t Lose Health Care Reform

Election Year 2012 marches on to November.  Here and there social causes are used as political footballs. Some candidates surviving the latest tackle will see a few more yards.  But there is one national issue that we, particularly women of all ages, cannot allow to be benched – health care insurance and the basic reforms [...]

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Health Care Reform At SCOTUS: The Beginning Of The End Of Civil Rights Reform?

So here it is. This term the Supreme Court will decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a fact that given the fight for passage and then fight in the courts, is not that surprising. So far the bulk of the focus has revolved around the individual mandate, perhaps the least popular provision of [...]

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The Individual Mandate: Health Care Reform in Context

I have been reluctant to write about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act up until now because I was professionally involved in lobbying for its passage. People I worked with were involved in the discussions of what the bill should and should not include. Seeing this bill written and passed was one of [...]

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