Vermont may for the short term allow small businesses to offer low-premium, "bronze" insurance plans. In other news, a N.J. legislative committee approved a bill to establish a state health insurance exchange, and a California plan to move 875,000 children to Medicaid raises concerns....
The objection of the Catholic Church is wrong. Women are good decision makers and their religious hierarchy simply doesn't understand. The Catholic Church also has a strong history of impoverishing their members. The USA is not the only country the Catholic Church conducts its faith. There are many countries where religious pressure results in altered lifestyles and poor quality of life. The Catholic Church implodes its own tithers with unrealistic family size that also prevent mothers from employment to promote their families' well being and improvement.
The Catholic Church in the USA has a right to their faith and their faithful, but, they are not allowed to pressure women of other faiths to practice differently. There is quality of life and religious freedom at stake. Once the State Exchanges are established, employers have the option to give employees monies instead of insurance so they seek health insurance that covers their needs.
Critiquing the churches values and standards is not the answer, but, offering and legislating options everyone can live with is. The decision by Health and Human Services is correct, there is no other option for women seeking birth control currently, but, the future will have options to enhance choices in health care. Let's hope that is the case.
The States are finding many interesting options and even Vermont recently stated if large employers can provide a comprehensive health plan at reasonable cost to their employees they are welcome to do so.
Emergency contraception is important to women and it should always be available, especially in hospitals where rape and incest victims find care and evidence collection.
The objection of the Catholic Church is wrong. Women are good decision makers and their religious hierarchy simply doesn't understand. The Catholic Church also has a strong history of impoverishing their members. The USA is not the only country the Catholic Church conducts its faith. There are many countries where religious pressure results in altered lifestyles and poor quality of life. The Catholic Church implodes its own tithers with unrealistic family size that also prevent mothers from employment to promote their families' well being and improvement.
The Catholic Church in the USA has a right to their faith and their faithful, but, they are not allowed to pressure women of other faiths to practice differently. There is quality of life and religious freedom at stake. Once the State Exchanges are established, employers have the option to give employees monies instead of insurance so they seek health insurance that covers their needs.
Critiquing the churches values and standards is not the answer, but, offering and legislating options everyone can live with is. The decision by Health and Human Services is correct, there is no other option for women seeking birth control currently, but, the future will have options to enhance choices in health care. Let's hope that is the case.
The States are finding many interesting options and even Vermont recently stated if large employers can provide a comprehensive health plan at reasonable cost to their employees they are welcome to do so.
Emergency contraception is important to women and it should always be available, especially in hospitals where rape and incest victims find care and evidence collection.
...One of the models (click title to entry - thank you) under consideration for testing in the accountable care project is a payment incentive or gainsharing. For example, if federally qualified health centers, which participate in Medicaid and deliver primary care, meet a certain savings target, they can potentially keep some of the amount over the target that was realized in savings.
Those conversations have a lot of promise for Colorado and other states. “It moves us away from a state budget environment where we’re seeing Medicaid being potentially pitted against education or other budgetary needs,” Arenales said.
