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“Pro life” hypocrisy in action

National Right to Life is one of the backers of the push to repeal Obamacare. Things shouldn’t shock me anymore, but this does. When National Right to Life and other anti-choice groups talk about their values — ones that many people find very appealing — they talk about “promoting respect for the worth and dignity of every individual human being.” The state affiliate of NRTL, the Georgia Life Alliance, even states in their mission statement,

July 21, 2017 7:17 pm
Healthcare

Keep up the pressure: Tell Senators no Obamacare repeal!

The Senate healthcare bill has suffered another crushing defeat, but leaders on Capitol Hill are scrambling to keep the measure alive. The U.S. Senate has been considering their version of the American Health Care Act — the disastrous Obamacare replacement that would gut Medicaid and put health insurance out of reach for many — over the past couple of months. Their version of Trumpcare is sometimes known by the acronym BCRA, which stands for the

July 19, 2017 2:44 pm
Healthcare

Trumpcare disastrous for Georgia women

In a party line vote, Georgia’s nine Republican U.S. Representatives voted to gut health care protections for women and their families, while the state’s four Democrats voted against Trump’s American Health Care Act. The AHCA would be a disaster for the 2.1 million women of reproductive age in this state. Trump’s alternative to the ACA, as it passed the House, allows insurers to charge higher premiums or deny coverage to people for their health history,

May 9, 2017 8:37 am
Casey Cagle

What if Georgia policymakers cared about health care?

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is taking the lead on health care reforms, creating the Health Care Reform Task Force, which had its first public meeting last week. Hundreds of thousands of Georgians stand to lose their health care or face higher costs to stay insured. Cagle has made it clear he plans to take “a free market approach,” which inevitably means tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy, and higher costs for everyone else. At

March 17, 2017 7:18 am
Healthcare

Birth control and the repeal of the ACA

Here’s a fun fact for you: birth control helps people prevent unplanned pregnancies. Shocking right? Early Thursday morning, the Senate took the first steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare. One of the amazing benefits of the ACA, has been no-copay birth control. Birth control comes in a lot of forms: hormonal pills, patches, shots, intrauterine device (which, as the name suggests, are inserted into the uterus), diaphragms and cervical caps…the list

January 16, 2017 8:27 am
2016 Legislative Session

Georgia’s health care strategy: wait and see while the hot mess unfolds

Health care is going to be a hot mess come the new year. Unfortunately, women, transgender folks, people of color and rural communities are going to be the first to feel the pinch of many impending changes. And the potential “solutions” from Republicans at both a state and national level have not been promising. Republicans in Congress are antsy to gut the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) — putting at least 1 million Georgians at risk

December 16, 2016 7:59 am
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