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Up Next in Budget Battles: Pay for Medicare Docs

By Sharon Johnson ● Uncategorized ● February 2, 2013

The latest “doc fix” averted a 27-percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians. But don’t say phew yet. In this news analysis Sharon Johnson explains how an obscure compensation formula is tearing away at the system from within.

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Roe Turns 40 with Doctors Worried All Over Again

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Uncategorized ● January 22, 2013

The role of doctors in upholding Roe v. Wade over the past 40 years includes millions of procedures, key court battles and withstanding threats of violent attack. After all that, in the face of mounting abortion restrictions, one doctor says “we have to fight this state by state.”

Health Question for Women: Two Doctors or One?

By Hana Askren ● Uncategorized ● November 21, 2012

The new health care law covers preventive care but leaves open the question of who will provide it to women: general practitioners or ob-gyns? And who decides?

Birthing Options Grow Scarce after C-Sections

By Hana Askren ● Arts & Culture ● November 14, 2011

In her doula work Hana Askren finds that women who want a vaginal birth after a Caesarean often cannot find a doctor or hospital to provide this kind of care.