ASCOG Advocate: June 19, 2013

Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
while surrounded by witnesses, including
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

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On this date, in 1964, the Civil Rights Act was approved, surviving an event that lasted for 83 days.


What was the event?

Kaiser:  Conservative Michigan moves toward Medicaid expansion while Virginia remains undecided.

The Obama administration officially approved the Florida plan to expand managed care to all parts of the state.

The Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services is spending time at the tornado relief center in Norman to take applications from people whose disabilities are barriers to employment.

The death rate at the West Rest Haven nursing home has doubled since the nearby fertilizer plant explosion on April 17.

Encore careers, working after retirement, may have a positive impact on your health.

A daughter started to write a book the ravages of Alzheimer's disease incurred by her mother, but her book was interrupted when she contracted Alzheimer's herself.  So, her son took over and made a feature-length movie.