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The Scoop: July 8, 2020 Edition
July 8, 2020 – In this week's edition: COVID-19 special enrollment periods in NY, MD end next Wednesday; Pennsylvania enacts law requiring health insurers…
A dream come true (and a nightmare ended)
November 11, 2015 – Shirley Cayko dreamed of opening her own mental health practice, but held off because she was quoted health insurance premiums of $5,000 a…
“It’s not health insurance. It’s bankruptcy insurance.”
June 17, 2013 – I was approaching 60 years of age; I had exhausted my savings to pay for a private health insurance policy that was no longer financially…
The facts behind breastfeeding controversy
June 21, 2012 – Since when did breast pumps become an "essential benefit?" Answer? Since we realized that if 90 percent of women nursed their babies for…
Kill health reform? Not on their lives. (pt. 1)
April 30, 2011 – There's been a lot of controversy over whether the health reform law was worth the struggle and whether it should ultimately be repealed,…