Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Manon Scales With the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fast approaching, nothing has experts, policy makers, and voters on the edge of their seats quite like the release of individual insurance premium rates. It is a simple question–will rates rise or fall?–with an exceedingly complicated answer–it depends. As states have begun […]
By Sarah Larson In February 2011, as the U.S. House of Representatives was considering a bill to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) took to the House floor to speak about her personal experience with abortion. Speier was 17 weeks pregnant when she experienced complications resulting in fetal unviability. The speech […]