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Health Care Round-Up

• Health care reform is especially important for women:

  While men are more likely than women to be uninsured, women’s health coverage is more volatile. Why? Because only 38 percent of women have health coverage through their own job, compared to 50 percent of men. That means women are about twice as likely as men to depend on a spouse or partner’s employer-provided health plan. The negative outcomes here are pretty obvious: For an American woman, the end of a romantic relationship is often not just emotionally tumultuous but medically tumultuous as well, for both herself and her children.

• Prostate cancer treatment as a litmus test for health care reform.
• Howard Dean visits Daily Kos to talk about health care reform; mcjoan also discusses his new book on the subject.
• Sen. Blanche Lincoln is sounding a little more positive about the public health insurance option. This is a good thing.
• An important reminder both of the concrete harm insurance companies do and that the people harmed can fight back:
  

  Maureen Kurtek Goes to Washington from AmericasFuture on Vimeo.

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