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Cindy Pearson is co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need and Executive Director of the National Women’s Health Network.
Cindy Pearson
Cindy Pearson is co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need and Executive Director of the National Women’s Health Network.
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March 23, 2012
For the tenth #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the new health-reform law, the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Photo of Barack Obama signing the Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010, from Wikimedia Commons. Why are women so excited about the ACA? Well, for a start, the law has already started removing barriers to health care and improving services for millions of women and our families, helping us access the care we need to stay healthy. This week’s #HERvotes blog carnival is going to raise women’s voices all across the country. We will tell our stories of how...
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October 11, 2011
OK, I admit, that’s a pretty distasteful headline. It could have been worse, though, couldn’t it? No one likes to think about having a long tube inserted through their rectum up into their intestines, which is what it takes to look at the colon. And that long tube is only part of the yucky story. To be ready for the tube, you have to stop eating and create medically induced diarrhea by drinking vast quantities of sickly sweet goop. So, if you’ve heard the messages about cutting your risk of colon cancer in half by going through the screening exam, managed to overcome your perfectly normal...
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October 11, 2011
What do you think is an essential part of your health care? Is it a specific service that most women need at some time in their lives, like maternity care or contraception? Is it something that you hope you’ll never need, but it darn well better be covered when you need it, like reconstruction after losing a breast to cancer? Or is it something that enables you to make the most informed decision possible, like coverage for a second opinion? All of these are aspects of health care that women have fought for and won…at least in some parts of the country. Yes, that’s right, that service that you...
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August 25, 2011
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder, Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need That’s what I think every time I tell myself not to get discouraged about the attacks on health care reform. It wasn’t quite so hard back in the spring of 2010, when the attacks were just on health care reform. After all, reform was going to shake up for-profit health insurance companies and put an end to some of their worst practices. No wonder there were attacks on health care reform. But now, it’s not just health care reform that’s being attacked, it is family planning, too, which is pretty amazing, given that...
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