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Men having access to Viagra violates my religious beliefs

February 23, 2012 Madonna Gauding Humor 12 comments

I keep hearing talk about contraception and abortion and I wholeheartedly agree that something needs to be done, however the arguments I’ve heard fail

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2.5 million new reasons to love “Obamacare”

December 17, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Employment, Health care Leave a comment

I’m not qualified to say whether the individual mandate of the 2010 Affordable Care Act [ACA]  is constitutional, but I am pretty certain that

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Why are we abstaining from sex education?

August 26, 2011 Bobbi Clemons Education, Youth issues Leave a comment

In early August, Mayor Bloomberg unleashed a new initiative that would make sex education in New York City schools mandatory. That means for middle

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The American Health Security Act of 2011

May 14, 2011 Madonna Gauding Health care Leave a comment

On May 10, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced legislation to provide health care for every American through a Medicare-for-all type single-payer system. Represenative Jim

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A states’-rights assault on healthcare reform

February 4, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Government, Health care, States One comment

Just as healthcare consumers are beginning to see and like the benefits of the healthcare reform act, Republicans have launched yet another attack designed

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Momma, don’t take my healthcare reform away

February 4, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, Health care One comment

What would healthcare consumers have to give up if Republicans succeed in undermining the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [PPACA], or if the

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Missouri’s slice of the healthcare-reform pie

October 13, 2010 Stacy Mergenthal Government, Health care, Missouri region 4 comments

How will health care reform–officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)–specifically impact Missouri residents? Nationally, PPACA received a lot of

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One-person group: Not an oxymoron in new WA health care law

September 20, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Health care Leave a comment

In a step forward for self-employed people seeking health insurance, Washington state legislators have redefined the meaning of the word “group.” According to the

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Healthcare reform all-stars now must put policy into practice

April 22, 2010 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, Health care Leave a comment

The 2,000-plus page healthcare reform bill, it turns out, was just an outline. As in all other newly minted laws, the provisions themselves are

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10 surprising things in the health care bill

April 14, 2010 Madonna Gauding Health care 3 comments

If  you read Gloria Bilchik’s post here on April Fools Day you learned about some hilarious aspects of the health care bill that, well,

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