The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on the contraceptive coverage rule last week that caught everyone's attention. It wasn't the testimony of the witnesses that was newsworthy so much as the fact that it was an all-male panel discussing a women's health issue. I couldn't...
Posted December 13, 2011 | 12/13/11 11:47 AM ET
The Super Committee's failure to come up with a plan to cut the deficit will be devastating for low-income pregnant women, infants and children. Without a bi-partisan deal there will be a 6% cut in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
This is absolutely...
Posted November 11, 2009 | 11/11/09 11:16 AM ET
To a Representative, nothing is more important than her constituents and their well being.
As a child, I don't remember going to the doctor very often. My mother fought breast cancer, and finding affordable insurance after she beat cancer was very difficult for my parents, because my dad was a...
Posted February 23, 2012 | 02/23/12 02:26 PM ET