As Congress resumes today, advocates for older women are girding for another round of health care battles. One group has re-released its 2011 “Granny Off the Cliff” video showing the GOP budget leader pushing an older woman over the edge of survival.
Election polling found women disproportionately concerned with what happens to Medicare, which is expected to be a major topic when the lame duck Congress meets Nov. 14.
It might seem like a pro-choice glimmer out of the GOP. But don’t buy it. Romney and Ryan’s show of support of abortion rights for rape victims could be undermining the right to privacy that all pregnant women have under Roe v. Wade.
A national nurses’ union is lobbying for a single-payer health care system, saying it’s the only plan most Americans can afford. Proponents also argue that Medicare-for-all is more fiscally hawkish than Romney’s new running mate.
Rep. Paul Ryan’s record on budgeting priorities, abortion, health reform and pay equity has women’s advocates fuming over Mitt Romney’s choice of Republican running mate. Roundup of news, blogs and press statements.
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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