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What Obamacare means for you: A plain and simple guide
What the Affordable Care Act means for you and your family, from Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports has just released a short and easy-to-read guide to how Obamacare – also known as the Affordable Care...
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WA a leader in kids health coverage, but ACA may provide a boost
With health care reform currently underway, analysts and advocates are working to determine what effects the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on specific populations – including children. Thanks to...
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Where is the best place to be a mother? Not the U.S.
[Cross-posted from Washington Work and Family Coalition] | By Janice D’Arcy : USA Today Norway’s health, education, family and workplace policies make it one of the best places in the world to be a...
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Why legalizing marijuana is good for healthcare
While Washington state ballots will continue to be processed for several days, one measure that passed early on was Initiative 502 – the initiative to legalize and regulate marijuana. The measure...
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Raising the Medicare eligibility age will cost everyone more
Raising the age for Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 is front and center in the GOP plan to avoid the fiscal cliff slope – but it’s merely a budgetary sleight of hand that shifts costs to seniors...
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U.S. health care costs growing more slowly, but we still spend way more than...
U.S. health care costs grew by 3.9% in 2011 (as it did from 2009-10), which looks pretty modest compared to the average 6.8% increases of the last decade. But keep in mind that the total U.S. health...
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Using market leverage on drug prices could save Washington state up to $1.2...
Americans pay far higher prices for prescription drugs than do people in other wealthy countries. The reason that other countries spend so much less on drugs is that their governments negotiate prices...
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Expansion of health coverage helps, but comprehensive benefits and quality...
New research examining the effects of gaining Medicaid coverage on health outcomes shows mixed results. With a number of states opting to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, many have...
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Two public policies that would turn every bad job in America into a good job
By Colin Gordon, republished with permission from Dissent Magazine What happened to the good jobs? This is the question posed by fast-food workers who walked out in New York and Chicago in recent...
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New research: Young adults gaining health coverage under Obamacare
Obamacare is improving insurance coverage among young adults – and saving them a lot of money in the process. [Photo: rob_nguyen via Flickr Creative Commons]With youth unemployment stagnating above 16%...
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