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Two-Year Colleges Lack Resources To Prevent Unintended Pregnancies, Column Says

October 11, 2010
At Tuesday's White House Summit on Community Colleges, "[e]ncouraging more partnerships between colleges and businesses whatever that means was on the agenda, but not how you keep sexually active students in school long enough to show up [for] the first day of work with a diploma and without a baby," ...

KHN Column: Reminding ourselves what has gone right with the health law

October 7, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who has a new book about the health care debate, writes Six months after the passage of health care reform, it is easy to forget how far we have come in such a short time.

KHN column: Keeping an eye on the health care prize

September 20, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Brian Klepper and David Kibbe write: "Many reformers undoubtedly believe that passage of the health overhaul law laid the issue to rest. But policy's wheels continue to turn, and the process is anything but over" (9/20).

Salon Column Examines Reasons For Unsafe Sex Among Older Adults

September 17, 2010
It is "impossible to ignore" the "dramatic spike" in sexually transmitted infections among adults ages 45 and older, "a demographic we tend to refer to as 'mature,'" author and Salon staff writer Mary Elizabeth Williams writes in column. According to Williams, a recent report from the British Family Planning Association ...

KHN column – The prevention and public health fund: Good for our health, good for small business

September 13, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, and Larry Cohen, founder and executive director of Prevention Institute, offer their perspective on a legislative question: "As Congress returns to work this week, senators are scheduled to cast a critical vote on ...

KHN column: Don’t discount the value of an agent, they discount your insurance

September 10, 2010
In this column for Kaiser Health News, Janet Trautwein, CEO of the National Association of Health Underwriters, notes: "Insurance agents have made for popular punching bags in recent weeks.

KHN column: Social Security’s Disabled Adult Child program: A key program often below the radar

September 7, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Harold Pollack writes: "Intellectual disability is often accompanied by costly illnesses and social service needs.

KHN column: The prevention dilemma

May 24, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, Partnership for Prevention President and CEO Robert Gould writes: "If given the choice to spread prevention money around or to concentrate it to make a profound, historic and measurable impact, what would you do?

KHN Column: The health care cost problem we refuse to see

May 17, 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Austin Frakt writes: "I agree with those who think the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn't do enough soon enough to control the rate of increase in health insurance premiums.

KHN Column — Rescissions: Much ado about nothing

May 14, 2010
In this Kaiser Health News column, John Goodman writes: "How many times have you heard President Obama say, 'Health insurers won't be able to drop your coverage just because you get sick?

KHN column: Playing chicken

May 3, 2010
In his latest Kaiser Health News column, Jonathan Cohn writes: "A lot of people laughed when Sue Lowden, the Nevada Republican running for the U.S. Senate, suggested last month that people start paying for their medical care with chickens. I didn't. I thought about my late grandfather Kurt, a family ...

Washington Times Column Highlights Efforts To Expand Insurance Coverage Of Infertility Care

May 3, 2010
At a Capitol Hill briefing on Wednesday, advocates from Resolve: The National Infertility Association said that the "complex, emotionally riveting issue" of infertility "needs to come out of the shadows -- and be fully covered by health insurance," Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who ...