Update: Navigators and the Exchange

By Maggie Dunham Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services released final regulations on the minimum standards states must meet in establishing health insurance exchanges.  The regulations include Navigator program standards for both the individual...

Thanks Obamacare for Helping This Mom Protect Her Child

By Sonji Wilkes, Mother  My son Thomas was born in 2003. After his circumcision, he continued to bleed. Within a day, my husband Nathan and I were told that our newborn son had severe hemophilia, a genetic blood clotting disorder. A local hematologist was at our...

Much Too Early to Declare the Affordable Care Act Dead

By Melissa Hart As I write this, the nine Justices on the Supreme Court are meeting in conference to discuss their votes on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.  No one else will be in the room and most of us won’t know until the end of June what they...

Who Needs Affordable Health care?

By Jill E. Kovacevich, Executive Director of Doctors Plus, Inc. Shortages of affordable care access in our community affect everyone, including the uninsured, the insured and underinsured – and results in negative health outcomes. Affordability of health care is...
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