The Florida Commission on the Status of Women recently released its “2011 Summary of Florida Laws Affecting Women and Families” without any mention of the five abortion bills that were signed into law this year in Florida.
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This week, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee released a report on Medicaid that outlines cost-saving measures decided upon by 31 Republican governors. Among the policy recommendations is a proposal to require the federal government to pay for the care of undocumented immigrants.
As of last year, the state of Florida held quite a dubious record: the highest Caesarean rate in the country. In Florida, however, there is no city that has a higher C-section rate than Miami.
In all of Florida, Miami has the highest number of hospitals that are delivering more More…
A new study from the Guttmacher Institute reports that as the rate of unintended pregnancies continues to decrease among wealthy or educated women, the rate among women who fall below the federal poverty line has climbed. #
According to a new report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission says the Medicaid-funded Women’s Health Program saved Texas $20 million and averted thousands of unplanned pregnancies in 2009.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Florida about $1.8 million to help the state sign up more children for health insurance. #
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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed a lower court ruling that the requirement in the federal health care reform law that individuals buy health insurance or face penalties is unconstitutional. It also upheld the lower court’s rejection of an argument by Florida and 25 other states that More…
The online legal resource SCOTUSblog, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court, is holding an online symposium on an issue that figures prominently in the fate of Florida health policy: the constitutionality of the federal health reform law. #
Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (aka AHCA) recently submitted the state’s Medicaid overhaul proposal to the federal government — and reproductive rights advocates say there are still lingering questions about equal access to family planning services for Medicaid beneficiaries. #
The Blaze, the conservative news and opinion website founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck, reports on a claim that the Obama administration increased the national debt more in four days than the Truman and Eisenhower administrations did during the entire decade of the 1950s.
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