Blog Carnivals

Women Will Steer the Fate of Health Care Reform

As mothers, daughters, wives and leaders of households, women often steer the health care choices of families. Thus in the coming years, women will also be a major force toward implementing health care reform and the landmark Affordable Care Act. Whenever we enroll a child into newly available...

Increasing Poverty and Lack of Insurance Underscore Need to Keep Affordable Care Act Strong

By Jocelyn Guyer, Georgetown University Center for Children and Families ( http://theccfblog.org/ ) A record number of people are now living in poverty, including one in five children, according to U.S. Census figures ( http://ccf.georgetown.edu/index ) released last week. More than 50 million...

Puerto Rico: Now, It's the Island's Turn to Work on Health Care

SAN JUAN -- Barack Obama's healthcare reform will benefit Puerto Rico with $6.6 billion more than the $4.8 expected for Medicaid between 2011 and 2019. After the healthcare bill passed on March 21, Puerto Rico began to look at the next decade which will be crucial for the Island to step up to the...

Anger, Threats and Fear - six months later

The health care bill passed six months ago. Many people are still angry. Some are making threats. Others fear this new law will take away their freedom instead of improving the quality of their lives. Anger, threats, fear…I understand those feelings and share them, but in a very different way. I am...