PPACA

  • Read more: Checking in on PPACA’s Protections for Pumping Moms
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    Checking in on PPACA’s Protections for Pumping Moms

    By Kate Greenwood Cross-Posted at Health Reform Watch  For most women who work outside the home—Gisele Bundchen excepted—breastfeeding on the job is not an option.  Pumping breast milk during the work day is more likely to be a realistic, if often challenging, choice.  As I blogged about here, Section 4207 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…

  • Read more: Maintenance of Effort in Maine
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    Maintenance of Effort in Maine

    By Kevin Outterson After the NFIB decision in June, Maine tried to expand Justice Roberts’ remedy to also make the “maintenance of effort” provision optional for states. Maine was unsuccessful in the First Circuit with the argument, for procedural reasons.  Prior coverage here. The Obama Administration is sticking to the letter of the law, and announced Tuesday that it…