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Health Care Reform: How It Benefits Women

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 10.11.2012 | Healthy Living
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Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Historically, women have experienced discrimination in terms of their health despite making 80 percent of health care decisions for their families, using more medical services than men, and suffering greater disability from chronic disease.

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On Their Own: More Workers Losing Health Benefits Along with Jobs

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 02.14.2012 | Business
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More Americans went without health coverage last year as unemployment remained high and even those who kept their jobs lost health insurance benefits ...

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Caring for Health: Expanding the Policy Dialogue

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Abby L. Ferber

Providing universal health coverage is essential, but there are many, many other social policy avenues to pursue if we seek to improve the health of our citizenry.

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Dems & Repubs on Health Care: 'Love a Lobbyist'

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Michele Swenson

The same insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies have granted themselves billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies and inflated profits continue to shape the healthcare reform debate today.

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