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The GOP Tries To Redefine Rape Exemptions—Again

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kate Sheppard - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - The House debated and passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks across the country. The bill, passed by a nearly party-line vote of 228 to 196, replicates laws passed in a dozen states in the past three years limiting the time period during which women can obtain a legal abortion. HR 1797 , sponsored by Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), is not expected to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate, and President Barack Obama has already threatened to veto it. But it does contain a provision that redefines rape exemptions, significantly limiting the number of women who would qualify. In order to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks under this law, a woman who was raped must be able to prove that she reported the rape to authorities—a requirement not present in other rape exceptions to federal abortion laws. Republicans added this provision to the bill, which originally included no exceptions for rape or incest, after the House Judiciary committee approved it last week. But the ...

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Saving Nadrah

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Times of Israel - By Lazar Berman - Jun. 13 (Special Report) - The Times of Israel accompanies the first Syrian heart patient in Israel — a four-year-old girl whose family put her life in the hands of the enemy — on the final stage of an unprecedented journey.

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Obamacare, Public Opinion, and Conservative Self-Delusion

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - Jun. 13 (Opinion) - One of the more important conservative beliefs about Obamacare, running right alongside the certainty that the law is a disaster that will fail in every respect, is the belief that Americans share their antipathy to the law. It certainly is true that the

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MAP: These States Rejected Federal Money to Fix Their Terrible Mental Health Systems

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Erika Eichelberger - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - Less than half of Americans living with mental illness receive the treatment they need—a failure that lands large numbers of mentally ill people in jails, emergency rooms, and on the streets. One provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, a.k.a Obamacare, would help fix the problem. Under the law, states will get hundreds of billions in federal money over the next ten years to provide health care to 2.7 million poor mentally ill people who are currently uninsured . But 17 states—including some states with among the worst mental health programs in the country—are rejecting these funds.

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Ohio Dept. of Insurance: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Health Premiums By 88 Percent

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Avik Roy, Contributor - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - Democrats continue to try to dismiss the evidence that Obamacare will dramatically increase the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. But on Thursday, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced that, based on the rates submitted by insurers to date, the average individual-market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, “representing an increase of 88 percent” relative to 2013.

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Komen cancels 3-Day walk in District, six other cities in 2014

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lena H. Sun - Jun. 05 (Special Report) - The Susan G. Komen foundation canceled its signature 3-Day walk in Washington and six other cities next year, slashing the number of the fundraising events by half, as participation continues to drop more than a year after a funding controversy involving Planned Parenthood. ...

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Meet the Doctor Big Pharma Can't Shut Up

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Tamara Straus - Jun. 03 (Special Report) - Healy is not the first psychiatrist to express boiling frustration with the pharmaceutical industry or to pen dire warnings about drug-based healthcare. He is joined by people like American psychiatrist Peter Breggin, who has written several books critical of “biological psychiatry,” and Irving Kirsch, who directs the Program in Placebo Studies at Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical School and is best known for The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. Healy is the author of such dire sounding titles as Pharmageddon and Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression

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California To Wal-Mart: Enough! No More Taxpayer Subsidized Profits For You

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Rick Ungar, Contributor - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - For years, Wal-Mart—and other large retail operators—have been piling up huge profits by controlling their labor costs through paying employees sub-poverty level wages. As a result, it has long been left to the taxpayer to provide healthcare and other subsidized benefits to the many Wal-Mart employees who are dependent on Medicaid, food stamp programs and subsidized housing in order to keep their families from going under.

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Distortions in the Medicaid Battle

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Jun. 01 (Fact Check) - Conservative critics of the Affordable Care Act are misrepresenting a study examining the health benefits of expanding Medicaid to cover more low-income people. In Arizona, a group calling itself American Commitment has launched a series of 30-second Web ads claiming that “a recent study shows that Medicaid doesn’t even improve … More >>

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The $2.7 Trillion Medical Bill

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL - Jun. 01 (Special Report) - Paying Till It Hurts: Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures

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Study: Immigrants put billions more into Medicare than they use

Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - May. 30 (News) -

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The NRCC’s claim that the IRS will be ‘in charge of your health care’

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - May. 29 (Fact Check) - “Congressman Barrow’s Plan: Put the IRS in Charge of Your Healthcare. Fed Up?” — banner on “mobile billboards” launched this week by the National Republican Congressional Committee Read full article ...

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The Obamacare Shock

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By PAUL KRUGMAN - May. 27 (Opinion) - the California bids are in — that is, insurers have submitted the prices at which they are willing to offer coverage on the state’s newly created Obamacare exchange. And the prices, it turns out, are surprisingly low. A handful of healthy people may find themselves paying more for coverage, but it looks as if Obamacare’s first year in California is going to be an overwhelmingly positive experience.

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Mother of Iraq Veteran Who Committed Suicide: "Honor the Dead, Heal the Wounded, Stop the Wars" | Democracy Now!

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 27 (News Report) - On a makeshift stage outside the NATO summit in Chicago, antiwar veterans fold an American flag that flew over NATO operations from Bosnia to Libya and which represents the flag that is “draped over the coffins of thousands of Americans killed in combat and thousands more who have committed suicide after they returned from service." They present the flag to Mary Kirkland, mother of Derrick Kirkland, who joined the military in 2007 and committed suicide in March 2010 after his second tour of duty in Iraq. "I am not ashamed that I have to tell people that my son committed suicide. I am ashamed of the military for failing to give him proper mental health treatment,"

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States’ Policies on Health Care Exclude Poorest

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ROBERT PEAR - May. 25 (News Analysis) - WASHINGTON — The refusal by about half the states to expand Medicaid will leave millions of poor people ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance under President Obama’s health care law even as many others with higher incomes receive federal

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Meet the Senate's Powerful and Progressive Policy Wonk, Ron Wyden

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joe Conason - May. 21 (Special Report) - Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden has established a reputation as one of the Senate's more serious and diligent members. Over the years on Capitol Hill, he has watched the Republican Party veer constantly further rightward, and yet he continues to believe against all evidence that bipartisan legislative cooperation is possible -- even likely.

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Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Noam N. Levey, Washington Bureau - May. 19 (Comment) - Medicaid opposition underscores states' healthcare disparities

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Kenya launches universal HPV vaccine access to youths

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

africanews.com - By George Okore - May. 18 (News Report) - As the world celebrates the Cervical Cancer Week, Kenya has taken a leap of faith by launching universal distribution of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine, expected to treat cervical cancer- the most dangerous disease among womenfolk worldwide.

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The Facts Are In and Paul Ryan Is Wrong

Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Magazine - By Jonathan Chait - May. 10 (News Analysis) - Changes in the way we think about the world are not “news” in the classic sense — they occur gradually, without discrete events to signal them. But they matter. Two such developments have come together recently, both reported in the New York Times. The f

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Prices Cut for HPV Cervical Cancer Vaccines for Neediest

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - May. 09 (News Report) - The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose, eventually making it possible for millions of girls to be protected against a major cance

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Why Obamacare is oversold

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert J. Samuelson - May. 09 (Opinion) - It’s the great moral imperative behind the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”): People should not be denied health care because they can’t afford insurance. Health status and insurance are assumed to be connected, and opponents have often been cast as moral midgets, willing to condemn the uninsured to unnecessary illness or death. The trouble is that health status and insurance are only loosely connected. This suggests that Obamacare may result in more spending and health services but few gains in the public’s ...

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Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data Reveals Bewildering System, Staggering Cost Differences

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jeffrey Young,Chris Kirkham - May. 08 (News Report) - When a patient arrives at Bayonne Hospital Center in New Jersey requiring treatment for the respiratory ailment known as COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, she faces an official price tag of $99,690. Less than 30 miles away in the Bronx, N.Y., the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center charges only $7,044 for the same treatment, according to a massive federal database of national health care costs made public on Wednesday.

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How ‘political intelligence’ can come from Congress itself

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jia Lynn Yang, Tom Hamburger, Dina ElBoghdady - May. 07 (Comment) - On the same morning a congressional staffer told investors in a private call that odds were improving for a government decision that would help medical insurers, trading spiked in a major health-care company. ...

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Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Catherine Saint Louis - May. 07 (Opinion) - Well: Obstacles for Pregnant Women Seeking Dental Care

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What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By ROSS DOUTHAT - May. 05 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Columnist: What Health Insurance Doesn’t Do

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