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The Arizona Republic: Health-Care Law Will Help Boost Women's Access
If we can set aside the political wrangling and focus on the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, what becomes obvious is its critically important impact on women's health. The fact is while women are the primary coordinators of health care for families and comprise the majority of U.S. health-care workers, they also put their own health-care needs behind those of their children. Cost is too often the reason (Brenda Thomas, 8/12).

Philadelphia Inquirer: Obamacare's Opponents Just Won't Stop
Will they ever give up? House Republicans have devised yet another plan to try to undermine the health reform law. This one is an attempt at an end-run around the Supreme Court ruling that upheld it. The Court found that the law's individual mandate to maintain health insurance is constitutional. It reasoned that the penalty for failure to comply with it functions in the same way as a tax. As such, Congress has broad power under the Constitution to impose it. The end-run takes that form of an amendment to the law introduced by Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) to "clarify" that the penalty shall not be construed as a tax. The measure has four Republican co-sponsors. What's the point? (Robert I. Field, 8/10).

Comments

[Women Health]

Health law is critically important womens, because healthy womens results in healthy families.

[Patricia Dudek]

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with you!
Patti