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Experts: Michigan students given false information by Colorado-based abstinence-education program

An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.

What women want … from the ‘super committee’

By | 11.15.11 | 5:25 pm

The subject of a recent episode of the NBC comedy series “The Office” was about a doomsday device created by devious employee Dwight K. Schrute (played by Rainn Wilson). If his fellow co-workers committed five errors in a single workday, the device was wired to send an email to More…

Planned Parenthood names five ‘states at risk’ in the coming election

By | 11.15.11 | 3:33 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Planned Parenthood has included Florida in its list of “states at risk” for the upcoming election. Only four other states (Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Ohio and Texas) are included on the list.

Michigan GOP-controlled House will delay state insurance exchange to wait for Supreme Court

By | 11.15.11 | 3:18 pm | More from The Michigan Messenger

The House Republican leadership says it will delay approving the creation of a statewide health insurance exchange, in part to await the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the health care reform law which mandates the creation of the exchanges.

New conservative think tank calls Florida’s Medicaid Reform Pilot program ‘a decided success’

By | 11.15.11 | 1:26 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The Foundation for Government, a new Naples-based conservative policy group, has released its latest publication, claiming that Florida’s controversial five-county Medicaid Reform Pilot “has been a decided success.”

Boise CPC seeks to draw clients from neighboring Planned Parenthood, director says

By | 11.14.11 | 5:47 pm

Two weeks after moving next door to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Boise, Idaho, Stanton Healthcare, an anti-abortion center for women with unexpected pregnancies, is working on a plan to boost its clientele while simultaneously minimizing Planned Parenthood’s.

Health care opinion leaders say states should be implementing Affordable Care Act

By | 11.14.11 | 3:09 pm | More from The Florida Independent

According to a recent poll of opinion leaders in health policy and innovators in health care delivery and finance, almost 90 percent of respondents believe state lawmakers should be implementing the health care reform law.

Harkin: ‘Pleased’ at announcement of SCOTUS hearing for health care reform challenge

By | 11.14.11 | 2:06 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin said he was “pleased” Monday that the nation’s highest court had decided to “promptly resolve conflicting lower court decisions” regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Federal money given for broadband access in rural areas

By | 11.14.11 | 1:32 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

A total of 28 telephone utilities have been given federal money to build and expand broadband access in rural service territories that span portions of Iowa and 17 additional states.

SCOTUS will hear challenge to health care reform law

By | 11.14.11 | 1:04 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The U.S. Supreme Court announced today (.pdf) that it will review the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care reform law. Twenty-six states, led by Florida, challenged the law — claiming it was an over-reach of federal power.