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GOP’s Block-Grant Plan Merits the Chopping Block

By Susan Feiner ● Employment ● May 25, 2011

Susan Feiner calls GOP lawmakers’ craze to turn federally funded programs over to states through “block grant” payments a block-headed approach to cost control that will do great harm to women.

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Reformers Say Maternity Benefits Make Dollar Sense

By Sharon Johnson ● Uncategorized ● August 30, 2009

Health-reform advocates in Congress argue that it’s cost-effective to end insurance bias against pregnant women and to make all types of insurance guarantee maternity coverage. Second of two articles.

Big 3 Dems’ Health Insurance Unfriendly to Women

By Susan Feiner ● Health & Science ● September 26, 2007

The Big 3 Democratic contenders’ health insurance plans all look alike to Susan Feiner. She sees triple versions of the same scheme to enrich the medical industrial complex at the expense of women. Only Dennis Kucinich gets her thumbs’ up.

Medicare Stingy for Breast Cancer Care

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● March 24, 2001

(WOMENSENEWS)–The lack of access to breast cancer screening and treatment has been highlighted with the introduction of two bills in Congress that, if made law, would improve women’s access to timely, quality mammograms and to prescription drugs to treat breast cancer.