Health Care Heroes

  1. How Medicaid protects Javi: One mother's story

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    This summer, I traveled to Washington, D.C., with my 17-year-old son, Javi. I've been there many times before, but this was his first visit. We started our trip with an evening trolley tour of our capital's landmarks. But we didn't go to D.C. as tourists. Along with other people from the American Association of People with Disabilities and United Cerebral Palsy, Javi and I went to the White House and Congress to make our voices heard in a policy discussion that affects our lives: the future of Medicaid.

  2. Doctors without borders, indeed

    Posted by Erin Kelly

    You know that things have gotten bad if a group of doctors who got together to provide health services to rural and low-income communities in developing nations has instead set up shop in the United States to help the many uninsured or underinsured people who need their care here.

  3. Contraception is Prevention!

    Posted by Sinsi Hernández-Cancio

    Since the passage of the health reform law, prevention has become a much talked about issue. We all know that a lot of pain, suffering, and money could be saved with good prevention strategies, but the big question is: Will prevention for women be taken seriously?

  5. Good news for recent college graduates

    Posted by Rachel Bates

    With college graduations quickly approaching, there will be a new wave of young adults looking for jobs. Graduation also means that these same adults will have to start making payments on their student loans. But because the job market makes it difficult to find jobs, it is also means it’s difficult for these recent grads to make these often hefty payments. Which begs the question: If they’re having trouble paying their loans how could they possibly afford expensive premiums?

  6. Go back to the Wild West?

    Posted by Erin Kelly

    Just a year ago, children with pre-existing conditions like leukemia, or even asthma, could be denied health insurance. Seniors struggled to pay for prescription drugs when they reached the “doughnut hole.” And recent college graduates who could not find jobs with benefits were stuck paying an arm and a leg for insurance or even going without coverage because they just couldn’t afford it.

  7. Seven States Lead the Way on Exchange IT

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    Starting in 2014, health insurance exchanges will be up and running. They will serve as online hubs where individuals and businesses can shop for coverage with the help of easy-to-understand information on all their options. Developing a consumer-friendly Information Technology (IT) infrastructure will not only be important, but necessary, to making sure these exchanges work as efficiently as possible.

  8. The Grinch who ALMOST stole Medicaid

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    Every kid down in Whoville needed Medicaid a lot
    But the Grinch who lived just South of Whoville did not.

    The Grinch hated Medicaid! The whole Medicaid program!

     

  9. Implementation: A federal offense?

    Posted by Kate Blocher

    It’s no secret that the battle leading up to the passage of the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent months after have seen an onslaught of creative attacks from the opposition. From the threat of death panels to a government takeover of health care, the rhetoric has been over the top and constant, but this most recent attack out of the great state of Texas just might take the cake.

  10. Melanie Shouse: An Inspiring Advocate for Health Care Rights

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    On January 30, 2010, Melanie Shouse lost her battle with breast cancer. But her tireless efforts and activism in the face of her disease helped paved the way for health care reform – a cause she took up so that others would never have to suffer her fate.