The Affordable Care Act has been upheld by the Supreme Court, even though there was considerable media confusion about that at first. When the first reports came out when the decision was handed down, emotions ran high all across the country -- both for those who were praying for it to remain law and for [...]
American families across the country are breathing a major sigh of relief. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as "Obamacare") is constitutional and that Congress was within its power to mandate that Americans buy health insurance or be subject to a financial penalty. Now, there are all sorts of [...]
I haven't had any guest posts written specifically for Mothers of Intention for a while. But when my friend Casey (you may know her better as Moosh in Indy) told me about her current insurance situation, I asked her if she would become a Mother of Intention for me. About two seconds later I had [...]
Sometimes, there are just too many things to write about and just not enough time in the day! If I had unlimited resources, I'd be writing more about these stories that really got my goat this week: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says women aren't constitutionally protected from gender discrimination, but people of color are [...]
Sadly, I've been putting off my annual mammogram while I'm pushing to get the writing done for the Mothers of Intention manuscript. But that doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about it. It's been even more on my mind since I heard the story about how WellPoint, the country's largest health insurance company, has been [...]
Yes, the PunditMom family is back from our amazing tour of China, and I'm trying to decide what I want to share about things other than the tourist stops -- our visit to PunditGirl's orphanage and the events of those few days are still circulating in my mind as I try to find a way [...]
I could sit here and write a long post about all the reasons we need real reform (I'm starting to hate that word, but I don't have a better one) -- but our individual stories are the things that may ultimately get through to all those at the Health Care Summit. If we stop talking [...]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on health care reform: "As I said to some friends ... in the press, we will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute [...]
How can we get health care done? Easy, if you believe some women in Congress: I heard about Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter's (D-N.H.) comments before they hit the mainstream media yesterday, thanks to XM Radio channel POTUS (Politics of the United States!) -- send the men home and we just might get health care reform done! [...]
As someone who came of age in the 1970s, I assumed things would continue to progress for women's rights. I felt lucky to be living in an age where I knew I had access to birth control as I headed off to college and got married the first time WAY too early. And while I [...]
One good thing about this "snow event" on the I-95 corridor this weekend -- legislators are stuck here and have to keep working away on the ever evolving health care bill (not that that's going to do us a lot of good on the reproductive rights front). Just a few miles away as the crow [...]
Not that I don't try to make all the Mothers of Intention features thinking posts -- be they guest essays or a round-up of great posts I've found on my blogosphere journeys -- but there's some really deep thinking to be had with the selection I've got this week: -- Crunchy Domestic Goddess takes on [...]
I usually do a good job of sticking to one topic in any given post. But there is so much going on at the moment, I feel like my head will explode: 1. My very new friend Anissa, whom I've admired from a afar in the blogosphere for some time, had a stroke this week. [...]
For years, we've had our eye on the Supreme Court, wondering with each new judicial appointment how that person would add to the mix on the longevity of reproductive rights, including the right to an abortion. Who knew that some dude named Bart Stupak would be the one to really start to topple our reproductive [...]
Even us wonks can't really get through all of the health care bill -- heck, I only made it to about page 400 in War and Peace. As the House of Representatives votes on the health care package today, if you've got a few questions try out this widget to get some questions answered: Thanks [...]
While the PunditFamily is recovering from the swine flu, here's a lighthearted reminder about the personal nature of politics! Which makes me wonder as I sit here among my tissue boxes, meds and cups of tea -- are the people who are opposed to the public option for health insurance OK with receiving their free [...]
The National Women's Law Center has made today a national day of action to call on our lawmakers to demand that they get rid of the ridiculous inequities in the health care system that impact women, calling their campaign "I am Not a Pre-existing Condition." A couple of weeks ago, I shared my story about [...]
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that I didn't make the cut for finalists in the Washington Post's "Next Great Pundit" contest. I'm not quite sure why the Washington Post is doing such a thing. Last time I checked with Katie Orenstein from The Op-Ed Project, major newspapers didn't exactly have a [...]
It's no secret that the insurance industry has dispatched as many lobbyists as possible to prevent a public option from becoming a health care reality. But did you know how really cozy Congress and the lobbyists are? Just something to keep in mind when people say they can't make something happen. Maybe it's more that [...]
Why are women really being treated like second-class citizens in the world of health care and insurance? I don't hear the women Senators and Representatives calling for an end to coverage for male-only maladies. There is a serious lack of compassion and understanding about women's lives today among the older generations of men on Capitol [...]
Senator Debbie Stabenow is on a roll for women's health care. First, she took on Senator Jon Kyl about his proposal that maternity care shouldn't be provided for in the health care reform package: Then, Senator Stabenow contested the plan of Senator Orrin Hatch to preclude insurance providers who work with the federal government on [...]
Polls taken immediately after President Obama's health care speech to Congress indicate that many were pleased and excited about what he had to say about health reform. Congresswoman Maxine Waters thinks he hit it out of the park and rallied the Democrats. Surprisingly the online commentary isn't really showing that. Lindsay Beyerstein at RHRealityCheck was [...]
