“…since I learned my employer is particularly aggressive in pursuing unpaid bills, every conversation about costs fills me with nausea and shame…” In 2017, a lawyer...
Rate of uninsured Rhode Islanders dropped to 4.1 percent New data released by the Census Bureau today show that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is working...
What happened to “Rhode Island’s Plan to Eliminate Childhood Lead Poisoning by 2010” and what comes next? [This piece originally ran on MuckRock.] Of kindergarteners entering...
Representative Marcia Ranglin-Vassell (Democrat, District 5, Providence) and Senator Ana Quezada (Democrat, District 2, Providence) have announced that they will be reintroducing their bill in the...
Facing an HHS-imposed deadline of August 19, Planned Parenthood today informed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that unless it intervenes, Planned Parenthood entities who are...
Rhode Island is one of only a handful of states across the country that have no minimum number of hours of direct care per resident per...
It took a little over two hours for the Rhode Island Senate to pass the Reproductive Privacy Act, H5125B, a bill to codify the protections of...
Tonight immediately following its passage by the General Assembly, Governor Gina M. Raimondo, surrounded by legislators and women’s health advocates, signed into law the historic Reproductive...
On Thursday the Senate Health and Human Services Committee (HHS) passed the Reproductive Privacy Act (RPA), H5125B, out of committee and onto full consideration by the...
Senators Jessica de la Cruz (Republican, District 23, Burrillville, Glocester) and Senator Elaine Morgan (Republican, District 34, Exeter Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich) today sent an open...