Boomer Housemates Have More Fun
Today more than 1 in every 3 baby boomers— that huge glut of people born between 1948 and 1964 — is unmarried. And those unmarried boomers are disproportionately women.
View ArticleAbortion Opponents Try to Spin Murder Case Into Legislation
As predicted, abortion opponents on Capitol Hill are wasting no time in their efforts to turn publicity over the recent murder conviction of abortion provider Kermit Gosnell to their legislative...
View ArticleAdministration Touts Competition In Insurance Exchanges
The Obama administration is countering criticism that the new health insurance exchanges will be lacking in competition, though it's doing so a bit quietly.At a White House briefing Thursday for health...
View ArticleMaternity Coverage Sought for Young Women On Parent's Plan
Young women covered by a parent's health insurance don't necessarily get maternity coverage.
View ArticleCourt Says Some Morning-After Pills Must Be Available OTC Now
A federal appeals court has dealt the Obama administration yet another blow in its quest to keep at least some age restrictions on the sale of emergency contraceptive pills.In a three-paragraph order,...
View ArticleAdministration's Plan For Morning-After Pill Pleases No One
Reaction was swift to the Obama administration's announcement Monday night that it was dropping a long-running legal battle to keep age restrictions on one type of the morning-after birth control...
View ArticleJudge Reluctantly Approves Government Plan For Morning-After Pill
An obviously unhappy Judge Edward Korman has approved the Obama administration's proposal to make just one formulation of the morning-after birth control pill available over the counter without age...
View ArticleTo Find Out How The Health Law Affects You, Ask The President
Call it the Affordable Care Act, call it Obamacare, call it whatever you want — it's coming. And soon. In less than four months people without health insurance will be able to start signing up for...
View ArticleHouse Passes Bill That Would Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks
The House has passed one of the most far-reaching abortion bills in decades. But it's unlikely to ever become law.By a mostly party-line vote Tuesday of 228-196, lawmakers passed the "Pain-Capable...
View ArticleWith Health Exchanges Poised To Open, PR Push Draws Scrutiny
This weekend marks 100 days until people can begin signing up for new health insurance coverage under the federal health care law. It also marks another milestone: the launch of an enormous public...
View ArticleFDA OKs Prescription-Free Plan B For All Ages, Ending Battle
The Food and Drug Administration Thursday evening approved over-the-counter sale, with no age restrictions, of Plan B One-Step. That's the morning-after pill whose status has been the subject of a...
View ArticleCould LeBron and RGIII Help Sell The Affordable Care Act?
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View ArticleMaine Once Again Allows Mail-Order Canadian Drugs To Cut Costs
It's deja vu all over again in Maine.For the first time in years, a state has acted to allow its citizens to purchase prescription drugs by mail from other countries. The idea is to take advantage of...
View ArticleAdministration Clarifies Insurance Rules For Contraceptives
The Obama administration is moving to end a long-running controversy over making no-cost birth control available under the federal health law.Under final rules issued Friday, most employers will have...
View ArticleYou Ask, We Answer: Demystifying The Affordable Care Act
The biggest changes in health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act are set to begin less than three months from now. Oct. 1 is when people can start signing up for coverage in new state...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act's Employer Mandate Delayed
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it's delaying a key part of the Affordable Care Act. Businesses will now have another year to prove that they are providing health insurance — or that...
View ArticleWhite House Delays Key Piece Of Affordable Care Act
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene.The Obama administration set off some pre-4th of July...
View ArticleDelay For Insurance Mandate Pleases Businesses
The Obama administration's decision late Tuesday to postpone the requirement for employers with 50 or more workers to offer health coverage or risk fines has satisfied some key members of the coalition...
View ArticleCatholics Take Sides Over Health Law's Birth Control Policy
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne.Prominent Catholic groups are once again are finding...
View ArticleCatholics Split Again On Coverage For Birth Control
Two prominent Catholic groups are finding themselves, once again, on opposite sides of a key issue regarding the Affordable Care Act.Three years ago, the Catholic Health Association, whose members run...
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