Gender Gap Persists in Cost of Health Insurance

Robert Pear reports in The New York Times: “Women still pay more than men for the same health insurance coverage, according to new research and data from online brokers. The new health care law will prohibit such ‘gender rating,’ starting in 2014. But ga…

116 billion reasons to be for the individual mandate

Ruth Marcus writes in The Washington Post: “The most compelling sentences in the Obama administration’s brief defending the constitutionality of the health-care law come early on. ‘As a class,’ the brief advises on Page 7, ‘the uninsured consumed $116 bi…

Healthcare Stories the Supreme Court Needs to Read

Nancy Keenan writes on The Huffington Post: “Friday marks the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. This landmark piece of legislation brings 30 million Americans into a healthcare system…

The bishops’ contraceptive problem

Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, writes for The Hill’s Congress Blog: “The furor over contraception coverage is clearly making some people blind. Case in point, John Feehery in ‘Obama’s Irish Problem.’ Sometimes a debate over contraception…

Unequal anger in abortion debate

Courtland Milloy writes in The Washington Post: “[T]he conservative effort now underway to overturn the court’s decision is not just being waged on women’s reproductive rights, but on the black woman as a person.”