Legal
Class Action Lawsuit Against HHS; Was It a Case of Misapplication of "Observation Status"?
The Center for Medicare Advocacy and the National Senior Citizen Law Center filed a class action lawsuit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services, on behalf of seven individual plaintiffs deprived of Part A coverage for their hospital stay more »
Women Were the Foundation of the Civil Rights Movement
Women were the secret weapon of the civil rights movement. For the most part, the men made the speeches and did the press interviews, and the women did the work. If they hadn’t, all those great plans would not have gotten past the talking stage. more »
CultureWatch Review — In Defense of Women
Reviewer Jill Norgren writes:In this season of television re-runs, devotees of Law and Order or The Good Wife would do well to turn off the tube, and sit down with Gertner’s book, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate. They might pull an all-nighter more »
Abortion Is Slowly Becoming Legal in Name Only
In Kansas a new licensing law for abortion clinics mandates what size and temperature clinic rooms must be, requires that staff dressing rooms have toilets, that clinics stock particular medical equipment and supplies, and that they be connected to nearby hospitals. South Dakota enacted an antiabortion law with requirements so onerous they essentially deny a woman her legal right to an abortion. more »
