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Laura Packard

Laura Packard

Laura Packard is a stage 4 cancer survivor and health care advocate, and founder of Health Care Voices. She hosts CareTalk, a weekly consumer call-in show and podcast on health care and health insurance issues in America on Mondays at 4:30pm ET. Follow @lpackard on Twitter.

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Abortion rights supporters march in Denver in the wake of a leaked Supreme Court opinion that indicates justices will overturn Roe v. Wade, May 7, 2022. The court overturned Roe v Wade in June 2022. (Photo by Kevin Mohatt for Colorado Newsline)

Fifty years later, our lives still at risk

By: - January 22, 2023

Fifty years ago, a very different U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. Radical right-wing extremists control the Supreme Court and serve in elective office. We have fewer freedoms than we did a generation ago. We suffer, and women die because of it. When the Supreme Court ruled last June to strip away our rights […]

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Time is running out to get ACA health coverage; Jan. 15 is deadline

By: - January 11, 2023

If you don’t have health insurance — or just want to explore your options — go to healthcare.gov on or before Jan. 15 to get covered with affordable health insurance now. Having and keeping good quality affordable health care is personal for me. The Affordable Care Act saved my life. In 2017, I walked into […]