Tag: health care
Explaining the Stupak Amendment + Palin's Pro-Life Protesters
Palin Doesn’t Convince the Pro-Life Movement, Either: Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones reports that a Pro-life movement, the American Right to Life, believes that Palin is secretly pro-choice. Dispute Over Repercussions of Health Care Reform Act? At the NPR health blog Shots, Julie Rovner explains that neither abortion rights groups nor anti-abortion groups believe that [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under abortion, agency, government, health care, politics.
Tags: abortion, amendment, bart stupak, choice, costs, coverage, government, health, health care, health care reform, hr3962, insurance, medicaid, NPR, palin, private, pro life, public, risk pool, sarah, stupak, supplemental
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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!
Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under agency, gender, gender culture, hostile environment, politics, rape, social class, socialization, society, socioeconomics.
Tags: abortion, bill, burt stupak, child care, christian right, conception, contraception, crime, Declaration of Independence, federal subsidies, fetus, fetuses, gender, gender power, happiness, harassment, health care, hostile environment, HR 3962, incest, injustice, justice, liberty, miscarriages, national right to life committee, nutrition, power, pregnancy, pro life, rape, reform, right to life, sex, sex education, sexual assault, sexual partner, smoking, social class, social power, socioeconomic class, state, std, stereotype, stereotype threat, title IX, wage inequality, welfare
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Christian Right Wants Less Liberty for Women, More Crime?
Sometimes, the left wing doesn’t know what the right wing is doing. Unfortunately, the long-awaited passage of health care reform leaves us with little to crow about. Bart Stupak’s amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions is a shocking attack on women on welfare. What’s [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2009 under abortion, crime, economics, health care, women's health, women's rights.
Tags: abortion, burt stupak, children, choice, christian right, christina page, crime, economics, family, Freakonomics, freedom, health, health care, insurance, kevin drum, life, mother jones, politics, roe v. wade, stem-cell, stephen j. dubner, steven d. leavitt, women's rights
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Dr. Clarke On Avoiding The H1N1 Virus
This video, featuring Dr. John D. Clarke, won the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s contest and will air as their public service announcement about avoiding H1N1, the swine flu virus. Unlike Dr. Dre, Dr. Clarke has a medical degree, and unlike Jay-Z, his PSA is not about being “CEO of the ROC”. He’s been spitting”health [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2009 under health care.
Tags: cdc, center for disease control, CEO, disease, dr. clarke, dr. dre, eyes, face, germ, germs, h1n1, hand sanitizer, handwashing, health, health care, hip hop, hygiene, illness, infection, influenza, Jay-Z, John Clarke, long-term outcome, medicine, mouth, nose, PSA, public service announcement, quarantine, rap, ROC, sickness, stay at home, swine flu, virus
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