Health Care

May 1, 2017

The California Children’s Health Coverage Coalition is pleased to invite you to join a webinar to walk through a California Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Renewal Playbook on May 4, 2017 at 2pm . Congress must act soon to renew the successful Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)...

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Michael Odeh

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Open Flexible Work Politics & Policy

May 1, 2017

We’re 100 days in to the new administration and we’re not giving up! In fact, we’re powering up, rolling our sleeves up, and marching forward! Here are your #5Actions for this week: 1. The very bad, no good healthcare bill is ba-aack! And they might vote again soon. Tell Congress: Don’t take our...

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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care

April 28, 2017

Many children receive Medicaid-covered health care not only at the doctor’s office, but also at school.

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Jessica Schubel

Breastfeeding Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration MomsRising Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

April 28, 2017

THANK YOU! Through all the political chaos that’s happened since Trump took the White House we’ve been blown away by the impact at the state and federal levels of the over million members, and millions of readers, of MomsRising who have been raising their voices in high impact ways for the last ten...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Care Politics & Policy

April 28, 2017

According to recent news reports, Republicans in the House of Representatives have resurrected plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act after Rep. Tom MacArthur introduced an amendment to the American Health Care Act that has the support of the House Freedom Caucus. The MacArthur...

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Health Care Politics & Policy

April 26, 2017

It’s ba-aack! The terrible, horrible, no good, monstrous, and very bad Trumpcare/American Health Care Act (AHCA) is rearing its ugly head in the U.S. House again... and this time it’s even worse! Sign on now! Tell Congress: Keep the Affordable Care Act in place. Don’t take our health care! http://...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care Maternal Justice

April 24, 2017

Research tells us that community birth (planned home and birth center births) is a safe option for low-risk women. But what does it mean to be low-risk? New research gives families and care providers data to help inform individual decisions about place of birth. I interviewed one of the researchers...

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Jeanette McCulloch

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Health Care Immigration MomsRising Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave

April 24, 2017

On your mark... get set…. go!!! It’s #5Actions time! You can do all five of the actions on one day, or spread them out across the week, your choice. The important thing is not WHEN you do them, but IF you do them. One thing we know for sure is that if you do them, your actions will add up with...

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Health Care Politics & Policy

April 24, 2017

It’s appalling. We’re still celebrating the March 2017 failure of the American Health Care Act (AHCA)—that would have stripped healthcare coverage from about twenty-four million people—to build enough support to pass in the U.S. House. But the fight for healthcare is far from over! President Trump...

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Felicia Burnett

Health Care

April 20, 2017

Leaders in Congress have managed to take a bad health care proposal and make it even worse in the U.S. House of Representatives measure that was leaked today. This is yet another heartless attempt to appease extreme members of the conservative right, without regard for what is best for mothers,...

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