WOUNDED BIRD

If you have health insurance under the ACA or the Affordable Care Act, which is the same thing, you are covered by Obamacare. If Republic...

From an excellent letter to the Advocate newspaper by David Hood, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, ...

Tom Aswell, who writes at Louisiana Voice , has done excellent investigative reporting on the Jindal administration time and again, all th...

Only until the weak are born. If parents in Louisiana need help for the child after birth, well good luck with that. Gov. Jindal wil...

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration quietly released a new financial analysis that estimates the state could save as much as $368 million o...

'Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole'  From Angela Louise Campbell at the New York Times : ON the second day of oral argumen...

 Who ya gonna believe?   I know whom I believe.   When you're ill or injured, the principle of oversized government is NOT your greates...

The Vatican From the New York Times : The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have rejected a compromise on birth control coverage that Presi...

From the comments to an earlier post at Wounded Bird : Tobias Stanislas Haller said ... I keep trying to remind these folks of their ...

The Vatican I've spoken of the heavy-handed tactics of the Roman Catholic Church in which the leaders and their true-believer follower...

From NPR : Despite a furious lobbying effort by the Catholic Church, the Obama administration today said it won't weaken new rules that...

From the US Conference of Catholic Bishops : WASHINGTON—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sharply criticized a new HHS “preve...

From TPM : The Obama administration announced on Monday that health insurance plans must cover birth control with no copays, among other re...