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The Six Worst Attacks On Reproductive Freedom In 2013. By Tara Culp-Ressler "The Six Worst Attacks On Reproductive Freedom In 2013" 2013 hasn’t been a great year for reproductive rights.

The Six Worst Attacks On Reproductive Freedom In 2013

Ever since 2010, abortion opponents have imposed a flurry of state-level legislation intended to slowly chip away at abortion access, and that trend certainly continued this year. But women’s health advocates also believe there was something different about 2013. Did Your Insurer Jack Up Your Premiums Last Year? Don't Blame Obamacare. By Sy Mukherjee "Did Your Insurer Jack Up Your Premiums Last Year?

Did Your Insurer Jack Up Your Premiums Last Year? Don't Blame Obamacare

Don’t Blame Obamacare" CREDIT: AP Photo/J. GOP debunked on food stamps: Everything they say about SNAP is wrong. Hilary Hoynes is a University of California at Berkeley economist who wrote a particularly notable paper last year.

GOP debunked on food stamps: Everything they say about SNAP is wrong

Instead of increasing dependency, as conservative critics have repeatedly claimed, Hoyen’s paper showed that, for women at least, food stamp use during pregnancy and early childhood has exactly the opposite impact of what conservatives allege: It actually increases economic self-sufficiency when children grow up, in the next generation. That was just one of two main results reported in “Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net,” which Hoynes co-authored with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Douglas Almond.

As stated in the paper’s abstract, access to food stamps for women leads to “increases in economic self-sufficiency (increases in educational attainment, earnings, and income, and decreases in welfare participation).” Hoynes herself said, “This work indicates that there are important benefits of the safety net that to date have been ignored. ERA: History. By Roberta W.

ERA: History

Francis, Chair, ERA Task Force National Council of Women's Organizations Section 1. Alice Paul: Working Towards Equality for the 51% Minority. Top 10 Republican Lies About Obamacare. Obamacare isn't perfect, but instead of going after the healthcare law's actual faults, Republicans still prefer to lie.

Top 10 Republican Lies About Obamacare

Obamacare has faults, and I don’t just mean with healthcare.gov, but rather the actual limited concept of healthcare (mandatory insurance) that Obama settled for to help the poor get insurance. There are things that I really don’t agree with; there are provisions like allowing businesses a gap year while not allowing individuals the same gap (and the complete, repeated, and total avoidance of the question by Kathleen Sebelius during her John Stewart interview). There are people being forced to pay more for their new plan under Obamacare after repeated promises from Obama that such things would not happen (a lie, even if it’s for the greater good). basically, there is, as Jimmy Buffett said, “a lot to drink about”. Lie 10.

“Obamacare will have death panels” – Sarah Palin. Lie 9. The Myth of Welfare and Drug Use. Testing government-benefit recipients snares very few abusers, but humiliates desperate people.

The Myth of Welfare and Drug Use

That’s why the GOP keeps adding screening laws. By Jamelle Bouie. Last year, Utah Republicans passed and enacted a law that mandated drug testing for welfare recipients. Do Your Part. GOP Talking About Killing Obamacare Is A Liability. Deborah posted the following in the Kingwood Area Democrats group.

Do Your Part. GOP Talking About Killing Obamacare Is A Liability

She is a member of the age group that the Right Wing has convinced that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is bad for them. Deborah has been fighting an uphill battle by writing op-eds in the local papers and speaking to whomever she could to enlighten them on Obamacare. She went to a financial planning seminar a few days ago and she recounts the following. What We Can Learn From The Largest International Study On Rape That's Been Conducted So Far. By Tara Culp-Ressler "What We Can Learn From The Largest International Study On Rape That’s Been Conducted So Far" The UN study surveyed over 10,000 men from Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka.

What We Can Learn From The Largest International Study On Rape That's Been Conducted So Far

The researchers caution that some regional attitudes about sexuality in Southeastern Asia may contribute to the results that they gathered across those six countries. Still, though, there are some big takeaways from their findings. Major New Study On Obamacare Premiums Should End The 'Rate Shock' Hysteria Once And For All. By Sy Mukherjee "Major New Study On Obamacare Premiums Should End The ‘Rate Shock’ Hysteria Once And For All" The most comprehensive study on Obamacare to date finds that Americans’ insurance premiums under the health law will be “lower than expected.”

Major New Study On Obamacare Premiums Should End The 'Rate Shock' Hysteria Once And For All

Many Americans will pay even less than the top-line rates after factoring in government subsidies for their health coverage, with some paying nothing at all for crucial medical coverage. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) looked at individual policy prices in the 17 states, plus the District of Columbia, that have released comprehensive numbers for their Obamacare insurance marketplaces. Since premiums under the law will vary based on factors such as age and geographic location, KFF chose to examine how much the second-least expensive “Silver” mid-level plan and the least-expensive bare-bones “Bronze” level plan would cost for 25-year-old, 40-year-old, and 60-year-old Americans in those 17 states’ largest cities. When Obamacare sabotage turns cruel. The American health care system, even before the Affordable Care Act was passed, can be quite complicated, and it’s easy for American consumers to get confused.

When Obamacare sabotage turns cruel

The Democratic reform law offers terrific new benefits to the uninsured, and obviously strengthens health security for those who already have insurance, but it doesn’t necessarily make the system less complex. Major New Study On Obamacare Premiums Should End The 'Rate Shock' Hysteria Once And For All. ObamaCare Facts: Facts on the Obama Health Care Plan. We present the facts on Obama Care (ObamaCare), the health care plan for America. Our goal is to help you understand the Affordable Care Act.

Decide for yourself what you think about the new health care law, based on the facts and not the talking points. 'Paying Till It Hurts': Why American Health Care Is So Pricey. Hide caption"We need a system instead of 20, 40 components, each one having its own financial model, and each one making a profit," says New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Rosenthal. iStockphoto.com It costs $13,660 for an American to have a hip replacement in Belgium; in the U.S., it's closer to $100,000. Americans pay more for health care than people in many other developed countries, and Elisabeth Rosenthal is trying to find out why.

40 ways Obamacare is working. Mythbusters: Obamacare edition - David Nather. There are a lot of wild stories about Obamacare that make the debate sound like a fact-free zone. No, the IRS isn’t going to be posting your medical tests all over the Internet. No, people’s premiums aren’t doubling in the crucial swing state of Ohio. And no, the Obamacare “data hub” isn’t like a new version of the NSA, spying on your hemorrhoids instead of your phone calls. Continue Reading. Obamacare works where state officials want it to work. An important “Obamacare” pattern is emerging and the political impact should prove to be fascinating in the coming months. Maryland insurance officials approved final rates Friday for health plans to be sold in the online marketplace for individuals beginning Oct. 1. How Does Obamacare Work? 11 Questions, 11 Unbiased Answers. If you're still scratching your head about what the Affordable Care Act means or doesn't mean or does or doesn't do, you're far from alone.

With so many cherry-picking pundits, politicians, and media sources perpetuating the spinsanity, it's hard to know how to get agenda-free information. Depending on where you get your news, opinions about Obamacare run the gamut from a step in the right direction to the savior of the American economy to the complete unraveling of democracy to the second coming of Karl Marx. When Minyanville was searching for an unbiased take on this labyrinth of a law, we turned to an organization with only one dog in the health-care fight: the truth.

ProCon.org is an award-winning nonprofit charity that operates with the explicit purpose of helping the public make informed decisions about complex social issues. The answer is a resolute, unequivocal, and thundering... Paul Krugman: People On The Right Finally Facing Horrible Truth. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has a great analysis in his piece “Republican Health Care Panic”. Ohio Lawmakers Are Using Their State Budget To Try To Restrict Abortion And Redefine Pregnancy. Justice Scalia's 'Originalist' Hypocrisy. U.S. How the Health Care Law is Making a Difference for the People of Illinois. Washington, DC--(ENEWSPF)--March 18, 2013. The 'war on women' isn't over yet. Attorney Sandra Fluke spoke at the DNC after she became embroiled in a controversy over birth control.

Photograph: Jason Re It was a year ago when Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke testified in front of an all-male congressional panel about the importance of making birth control affordable to every American woman. After being publicly taunted and called a "slut" by radio personality Rush Limbaugh, people across the nation rallied in Ms Fluke's defense and started waking up to a growing "war on women". The harassment of Ms Fluke highlighted an out of touch and growing anti-women movement that outraged voters right through election day. Certain male politicians made headlines for their offensive comments about rape and grossly inaccurate remarks about how the female body works. But the attacks on women went far beyond campaign soundbites. At Planned Parenthood, we were in the middle of these fights.