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“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…

We wake up this morning surrounded by a new political world.The House vote approving health care reform was without doubt the most significant congressional vote in the last four decades. That's because it completely transformed the American political landscape. It certainly changed America's health care…

Social justice management should be both more humane and tougher, said Gara LaMarche, The Atlantic Philanthropies’ President and CEO, in this speech at the Yale School of Management. I was at first flattered when I heard that students here at the Yale School of Management…

Original Source At the 2008 Annual Conference in Chicago, Grantmakers for Children, Youth, and Families awarded the 2008 Fred Rogers Leadership Award in Philanthropy for Children, Youth and Families posthumously to our beloved friend and colleague Debra Delgado. Debra was a wonderfully fun and compassionate…

Original Source California Political Desk LOS ANGELES Bolstered by nurses, doctors, labor unions, small business owners and women's groups, Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi has unveiled a $40 million national health care reform campaign to hold health insurance companies accountable and provide quality, affordable health care…

Original Source By TAMMIE SMITH TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER As a summer intern with the Virginia Organizing Project, Gabrielle Brown has spent the past few weeks knocking on doors, asking residents about community issues and health care. She has gotten an earful. One single mother of…

Original Source by Jeannette Rivera-lyles, Sentinel Staff Writer A group of Central Florida community leaders and residents announced Tuesday that they will be part of a $40 million grass-roots campaign to push for affordable health care. Health Care for America Now, a national coalition of…

By GUY BOULTON An array of unions and liberal activist groups in Wisconsin have joined a national coalition that plans to spend $40 million to push for health care reform, particularly universal coverage, in the coming election. The Health Care for America Now coalition, a…

By Irene Sege Danielle Cole has worn a diamond engagement ring for five years, since shortly before she and her fiance moved in together. To her surprise, she was pregnant at the time. Otherwise, she and Christopher Feener would probably be long married by now.…

By Walter M. Bortz II, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford UniversityWho was it who said,"You can't take it with you?"Sounds right to me. I have seen Mao's tomb in Beijing and the acres of terra cotta warriors nearby. Woody Allen said, "I don't…