Weekly Pulse: Funding Birth Control? It's the Economy, Stupid

by: The Media Consortium

Wed Jan 28, 2009 at 12:47

By Lindsay Beyerstein, The Media Consortium MediaWire blogger.  

The $825 billion economic stimulus package is finally taking shape as House committees finalize their contributions to the bill. The good news is that healthcare spending will be a major part of the stimulus: $87 billion has been set aside to help states pay for Medicaid alone.