New birth-control rules may shake up behavior

by | Aug 4, 2011 | Learn

Writing for MarketWatch, Kristen Gerencher writes that the new rules requiring insurance coverage for contraceptives may have significant ramifications in terms of the social costs of unwanted pregnancies and even on children’s health. Here are a few excerpts:...

Coverage with no copay extended to birth control

by | Aug 1, 2011 | Learn

The AP reports: A half-century after the advent of the pill, the Obama administration on Monday ushered in a change in women’s health care potentially as transformative: coverage of birth control as prevention, with no copays. Services ranging from breast pumps...

Corvallis Celebrates Medicare’s 46th Birthday

by | Jul 30, 2011 | Videos

On July 30th, 2011, volunteer health reform activists gathered near the local farmer’s market to recognize the birthday of Medicare. Doctors and musicians were among the supporters. Produced by Maegan Prentice with help from Bobbi Hall and Joe Magner. Contact...

Delivering Doctors to small towns and rural areas

by | Jul 29, 2011 | Learn

The New York Times reports on an innovative program in Kansas: This state, so sparsely populated in parts that five counties have no doctors at all, has struggled for years to encourage young doctors to relocate to rural communities, where health problems are often...