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Warring Sides on Health Care Carry Their Fight to TV and Radio Ads
Source: The New York Times
Original Source Health Care for America Now is an Atlantic grantee. By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — The battle over the future of health care has taken to the airwaves, with interest groups spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on television and radio advertisements supporting or…
Resource type: News
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KidsWell Campaign Launches Website and Online Resource Hub for Health Reform Implementation
Source: Kidswell
New York, June 29, 2011. KidsWell, a campaign dedicated to the successful implementation of federal health reform for America’s children, launched www.KidsWellCampaign.org, a website monitoring state and national health care reform implementation and opposition across the country. Drawing on a growing repository of more than…
Resource type: News
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What We Learned From Health Care
Source: The Huffington Post
By Gara LaMarche. In March, I was honored to watch President Obama's bill signing for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with a group of labor leaders and reform activists. Around me were advocates who had worked for months -- in some cases decades…
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Treating the Primary Health Care System
Ca Lon with her daughter. Photo: Save the Children "The doctor saved my life," declared Ca Lon, recalling how, after delivering her first child, she experienced profuse bleeding that put her life at risk. Luckily, Ms. Lon was in a district hospital in Khanh Hoa…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Will public warm up to health care reform?
Source: Politico
There's no reason why, in just one year, popularity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act should have risen dramatically. Nor is it true, much as some people would like to spin it that way, that the single largest expansion of the social safety…
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Programmes focus on health of the elderly
Source: VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of elderly people in northern Thai Binh Province's Tien Hai District have actively contributed to improving public health and curbing the use of alcohol and cigarettes.Their efforts form part of a programme, launched by the Viet Nam Public Health Association and…
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Affordable Health Care for All Is Within Grasp Now – If We All Rise to the Moment
Source: Gara LaMarche
President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night was a critical turning point in the fight to achieve quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Reform is within reach if we stay involved, work together and make our voices heard over the…
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TAC Statement on new cabinet appointments and resources for health
Source: Treatment Action Campaign
The Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. TAC E-Newsletter The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) welcomes the appointment of Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi as the Minister of Health, and the re-appointment of Dr. Molefi Sefularo as the Deputy Minister of Health. Both the Health Minister and…
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Garamendi Launches a National Health Care Reform Campaign to Keep Presidential Candidates in Check
Source: California Chronicle
Original Source California Political Desk LOS ANGELES Bolstered by nurses, doctors, labor unions, small business owners and women's groups, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has unveiled a $40 million national health care reform campaign to hold health insurance companies accountable and provide quality, affordable health care…
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Rockefeller Foundation Launches $100 Million Initiative to Strengthen Health Systems in Africa, Asia
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The New York City-based Rockefeller Foundation has announced a five-year, $100 million initiative to expand health coverage in Africa and Asia and provide new health and financial protections for all. Through the initiative, Transforming Health Systems, the foundation and its partners will work to establish more accessible,…
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