This is a guest post from Raising Women’s Voices. This week is National Women’s Health Week, when women are specifically encouraged to make health a top priority. Women’s health is not just for women though – it is for all of us. And we should all be than

Medical Homes: Local Focus, Better Health As policymakers across the country look to balance their budgets, some are turning to Medicaid, recycling the same harmful policies they’ve used year-after-year: eliminating coverage for vulnerable Americans, res

This is a guest post from Raising Women’s Voices. This weekend not only marks a time where we will be celebrating Moms, but it marks the launch of a campaign celebrating everything the Affordable Care Act does for the health of mothers and children, “I Lo

The National Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health has designated May 6th-12th as national Children’s Mental Health Awareness week. The goal of this week is to help raise awareness of the special concerns of children with mental health needs

Ron Shinkman, Editor of Fierce Health Finance Every now and then we come across a “wow, we couldn’t have said that better ourselves!” news or opinion piece on a topic we’ve been beating the drum about. That was our reaction this week when we read Ron Shin

Many of us take for granted the high quality care that nurses provide. Most likely, you have seen a nurse in your physician’s office, a retail clinic, in a hospital setting or even an outpatient clinic just to name a few. Every day they work to address ou

House Republicans who have jurisdiction over health care programs have been busy lately. In order to make the programs under their control (Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act) conform to the House budget resolution, the Ways and Means and the

Would you rather be healthy or have affordable education? That’s the false choice House Republicans are trying to force us to consider by pitting higher education against health. Last Friday House Republicans joined others in supporting the Interest Rate

This entry was originally posted on The Shriver Brief. When patients seek emergency medical treatment, they expect to speak to doctors and nurses—not debt collectors. But hundreds of documents released last week by the Minnesota attorney general reveal th