Challenges to the Health Care Law

Love Diane Rehm. Good discussion about the healthcare law and all the controversy around it.
Challenges to the Health Care Law

Medical care for pregnant women is getting more difficult

Medical care for pregnant women is getting more difficult

Healthcare Reform Debate Redux

Healthcare Affordability and Accessibility (aka Obamacare) is being debated yet again. Maybe it would be helpful if citizens actually informed themselves about what's in it. It's amazing how free politicians and pundits feel free to tell outright lies these days. Check politifact.com or factcheck.org.  To get the simplest primer I've seen on what's in the healthcare reform law from a reliable source, go to: 

http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/8061.pdf

http://healthreform.kff.org/The-Animation.aspx

We all need to remember to write op-ed pieces for our local papers, to write our legislators, and to generally make it our business to correct the misinformation flying around. 

End of Life Options

Who should be advocating for end of life options for elder Americans (or anyone with a terminal illness)? Family and Consumer Scientists, that's who. Where are we on this issue? So far, seems like we're silent. But the voices shouting about "death panels" and euthanasia are heard loud and clear. Lies, Damn Lies...and we all lose.

http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2011/01/the-new-year-in-health-care-reform-good-news-and-bad-for-older-americans