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Protect Healthcare Access in PA by Urging Your State Senator to OPPOSE HB2138

by Tara Murtha | Oct 16, 2018 | Medicaid

We’re nearing the end of the Pennsylvania Legislature’s two-year session, which means that we are watching a last-minute effort to rush a series of bad bills into law (and waiting, and calling for, any of the dozens of bills that would actually...

Women’s Law Project Heads to the Pennsylvania Progressive Summit

by Barbara DiTullio | Feb 6, 2015 | Abortion Access, Economic Justice, Gender Discrimination, Medicaid, PA Law, PA Legislature, Pennsylvania, pregnancy discrimination, Title IX, Women's health, Women's Law Project, WomenVote PA

As a non-profit Pennsylvania-based organization dedicated to advancing the legal status of women and girls, we are, of course, heading up to Harrisburg for the Progressive Summit today. These are a few of the panels that you will not want to miss: At 11AM on Saturday,...

Special November-December Wrap Up!

by Barbara DiTullio | Dec 30, 2014 | Health Care, Health insurance, Medicaid, PA Legislature, pregnancy discrimination, Pregnancy Discrimination Act, pregnant workers fairness, Rape, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Assault, women voting, Women's health

By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff Welcome to a special end-of-the-year, double-month wrap-up. It’s been a bit, but hmm, what happened in November? Oh, right: Pennsylvanians broke from a sixty-year state history and national trend to elect a new governor into office in...

Class Action Lawsuit Filed over Pennsylvania Medicaid Cuts

by Barbara DiTullio | Dec 29, 2014 | Health Care, Medicaid, Welfare, Women's health, Working poor

By Tara Murtha, WLP Staff Two big problems with Pennsylvania Medicaid emerged yesterday [December 22]. The problems aren’t with Medicaid per se, but with the chaos-riddled transition from traditional Medicaid to Governor Corbett’s controversial, non-expansion...

Let's Leave Politics Behind for the Sake of Healthcare

by Barbara DiTullio | Jul 7, 2014 | Government, Health Care, Health insurance, Medicaid, Pennsylvania, Women's health, working mothers, Working poor, working women

By Kate Michelman and Carol E. Tracy Pennsylvania is facing a 1.3 billion deficit and the annual state budget is due June 30. The obvious solution is to expand Medicaid, but some Pennsylvania legislators won’t consider it. When Governor Corbett rejected...

PA Dropped More Than 9% Children, Pregnant Women & Families from Medicaid!

by Barbara DiTullio | Aug 29, 2013 | Government, Health Care, Health insurance, Medicaid, Pennsylvania

Aly Mance, WLP Intern According to a new national report covered by the Philadelphia Inquirer, there has been a dramatic drop in Pennsylvania’s Medicaid enrollment. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation report, Pennsylvania dropped more than 9 percent of...

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