Posts Tagged ‘affordable care act’
Being A Woman Is No Longer A Pre-Existing Condition
betty.brinkToday, under President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, new and critical benefits for women take effect, according to a press release from the secretary of health and human services. For starters, under most ...
Rick Perry Helps Us Get Healthy
Kristian LinWell, our genius governor is at it again. Rick Perry announced yesterday that he’s refusing to implement the Affordable Care Act in Texas, joining a list of Republican governors who are trying to act all tough since the S...
Fort Worth Diocese For Romney
Jimmy FowlerIt’s looking more and more like the Catholic Church hierarchy in America should register with the government as a Republican lobbying organization: Yesterday, more than a dozen Catholic groups –– including the Fort Worth ...
A Victory for Prevention?
The nexus between pollution and illness may get more attention.Mary Ann Swissler
They’re not co-pays or premiums yet there’s no doubt that polluted air and water exact a high price on our health. Still, the arguments over how to deal with that part of the healthcare equation have gone back and forth for...