More than ever, we need a public option—and other changes—to ensure the ACA achieves its ambitious, far-reaching goals.
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Will The Nation’s Capital Become a National Leader on Paid Leave?
Washington, D.C.’s city council is considering a bill that would be the country’s most progressive paid leave policy.
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Forget GMOs. Pesticides Pose the Real Risk
Rather than worrying about unsubstantiated risks from GMOs, Americans should worry about the real risks pesticides pose for people in the communities that feed the nation.
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Report: Patients’ Groups With Big Pharma Ties Came Out Against Medicare Drug Plan
Earlier this year, nearly 400 patients’ groups signed onto two separate letters criticizing a recent Medicare proposal aimed at bringing down the cost of prescription drugs. Warning that there would be dire consequences for patients if the proposal moves forward, patients’ groups including the Partnership to Improve Patient Care and the Quality Cancer Care Alliance […]
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Confessions of a Pokémon Go Grinch: Ethical Questions About World’s Most Popular App
The new mobile game poses critical question about privacy, commercialism, and children’s attachment to screens.
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Indiana Court Overturns Purvi Patel’s Feticide Conviction
The Indiana Court of Appeals last week overturned the 20-year prison sentence for Purvi Patel, the first woman in the United States to be convicted under a feticide law for having an abortion. The 3-0 decision marks a victory for reproductive rights advocates, who argued that using feticide laws to convict women who end their […]
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Congress Goes on Vacation While Zika Spreads
Florida reported the first possible case of mosquito-transmitted Zika Wednesday. But the summer congressional recess is in full swing and Congress closed up shop without appropriating funds to combat the illness that can cause birth defects in babies born to infected mothers, leaving reproductive rights advocates and public health experts wondering what comes next. House […]
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Turning the Anti-Abortion Tide
The Supreme Court’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt ruling effectively renders unconstitutional abortion restrictions in some two-dozen states, forcing abortion opponents to play defense for the first time in decades.
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Union Conducts Nationwide Anti-VHA Privatization Protests
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest labor union representing federal and District of Columbia government workers, announced Tuesday that about 40 anti-VHA privatization rallies will be held nationwide. The move comes as the VA Commission on Care, the congressionally-mandated body tasked with making recommendations about the future of Veterans Health Administration, closes […]
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SCOTUS Abortion Ruling Benefits Women of Color, Low-Income Women
The Supreme Court’s 5-3 ruling on Monday to throw out restrictive Texas abortion laws in the landmark case known as Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt is a major victory for reproductive rights advocates, who have been fighting a wave of what they call “clinic shutdown” laws nationwide. First enacted in 2013, the Texas laws rejected […]
