From the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (http://www.pennbpc.org): UPDATE: This has just passed in the Senate. The action below will now direct your messages to members of the House. The other link will also direct you to where you can … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Airplane bathrooms. Parked cars. Utility closets. In a cubicle with absolutely no privacy. These are just some of the places that breastfeeding moms have had to pump breastmilk because they didn’t have access to anything better. … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): The PA Senate is expected to reconvene in Harrisburg at 3pm, where they could start to advance HB59, which would add work requirements, cut transportation, lock Medicaid recipients into their plans and institute premiums for children with … Continued
From the National Council of Churches (http://www.ncccusa.org): New efforts to gut healthcare are scheduled to be voted on in the Senate TODAY. Poor Americans will face cuts to their care and many middle class working families will lose the vital subsidies … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Health Access Network (http://www.pahealthaccess.org): Please act now to tell your PA Senator: oppose the harmful changes made by the House to Medicaid in HB59. Amendments to HB59 would add work requirements, cut transportation, lock Medicaid recipients into their plans and institute … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/07/14/among-wealthiest-nations-us-healthcare-system-comes-dead-last Published on Friday, July 14, 2017 by Common Dreams “The United States spends far more on healthcare than other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. population has poorer health than other countries.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer “A … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2017/07/14/latest-version-of-senate-health-care-bill-fundamentally-the-same-as-previous-versions/#.WWjzB4TysdU By Families USA July 14, 2017 Editor’s note: This piece was written by Families USA’s Eliot Fishman, Senior Director of Health Policy, Dee Mahan, Director of Medicaid Initiatives, and Lydia Mitts, Associate Director of Affordability Initiatives. It was originally posted on Families … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): What’s at stake for low-income people in federal budget, health care bills? A U.S. House subcommittee is voting today on a bill that would slash federal funding for programs that support the economic security of children, families, … Continued
Posted at http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2017-07-14/health-issues/new-health-care-bill-same-problems-for-pa/a58518-2 July 14, 2017 – Andrea Sears, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., still may not get the 50 votes needed to pass the latest version of the health-care … Continued
Posted at https://www.thirdandstate.org/2017/july/new-estimates-loss-federal-funding-pennsylvania-senate-health-care-bill Jul 08, 2017 10:37 am | Marc Stier The Manatt Health Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a new study of the impact of the Senate health care bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act … Continued