Medicaid

Happy Friday! Welcome to the first of a re-invigorated weekly news and blog round up here on Womenstake. From Fridays here on out, we’ll be sharing with you some links from our partner organizations or to blogs from across the web we think you might find interesting. Sound good? Then let’s get started. Read more »

This morning, President Obama released a deficit reduction plan that calls for $1.5 trillion in new revenues from the country’s richest individuals and corporations. Thankfully President Obama recognizes that we can’t let millionaires and billionaires enjoy tax breaks that make our deficit larger and put the burden of debt on the most vulnerable Americans. Read more »

On Tuesday, the US Census Bureau released new data on health coverage in the US and the numbers were not encouraging. The data showed an increase in the number of women lacking health insurance, bringing the number of uninsured women to the highest level in over a decade. Not surprisingly in this economy, fewer women had employer based insurance coverage and public programs like Medicaid were not able to make up for the coverage lost in the private sector. NWLC’s analysis shows that for women ages 18 to 64: Read more »

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held its first business meeting of the year to consider H.R. Read more »