No. The answer is no. There should be no compromise over the Affordable Care Act. It is a duly passed law of the land that will make positive changes in the lives of millions of Americans. It will give them…
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“The country wants Congress to focus on jobs and the economy, not on pushing an extreme agenda against birth control,” – Dawn Laguens, EVP, Planned Parenthood Federation of America House Republicans have included a so-called “conscience clause” in the government…
Jonathan Chait writes: The Obama administration today released the final numbers on the premiums in the state health exchanges. This is the single most important piece of data we have to gauge the plausibility of the exchanges, which are the…
Updates on what’s happening on the breast cancer frontlines. Use what you can, pass the rest on. MUTATED HEREDITY BRCA1 and BRCA2 are human genes that belong to a class of genes known as tumor suppressors. Mutation of these genes…
It’s not enough for Ted Cruz to be wrong, because he is. It’s not enough that he’s offensive, because he is. And it’s not enough that he’s a hypocrite, because he is. The worst part is that he has the…
Okay. So apparently some of you have complained that it was too complicated to understand Obamacare. Maybe you’ve listened to the Republicans talk about the 2000+ pages of the law and the government red tape it entails. Well complain no…
A Fox News medical expert on Tuesday argued that President Barack Obama’s administration was wrong to force gender equality for health insurance rates because men “only have the prostate,” while women “have the breasts, they have the ovaries.” “Look, it’s…
Everyone has heard of Bayer aspirin, it is a household name. Bayer AG also manufactures numerous other products, from pesticides to medicine for hemophiliacs called Factor 8. In 1984 Bayer became aware that several batches of this Factor 8 contained…
There’s been a lot of talk recently about workers. You know, the people who do the work in this country and who expect to be paid a livable wage while earning a little respect from employers and customers. The problem…
Here’s what’s clear: the success of President Obama’s second term will come down to the next few months of 2013 and early 2014 in the form of immigration reform, the success of the health care law, and the rising economy….
Obesity rates in the United States remain unacceptably high, and the epidemic persists in affecting Blacks and Hispanics disproportionately. Obesity is now classified as a disease. This was the final decision at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association…