"women-and-health-reform" Articles & Blogs:
Tell Your Members of Congress We Need Real Health Care Reform
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
Have you seen them yet? Opponents of real reform are mobilizing and stepping up their efforts to block comprehensive health care reform. They're also presen...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama on Health Care Reform and Women
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In case you missed it, check out a snippet of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech on health care reform and women. You can read her full speech here.
h/t Michelle Obama Watch
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Women Are People Too ... Right?
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
Since the beginning of the health care reform debate, it seems every Member of Congress has adopted the mantra, “People shouldn’t lose coverage under heal...[Read on] |
Health Care Reform Has a Woman's Face
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by Jenifer Rajkumar, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
With the misinformation spread about health care reform throughout the summer and the Senate Finance Committee about to release a bill as early as tomorrow, it’s more important than ever at ...[Read on] |
Can Heather Graham Sell the Public Option?
| A new TV ad produced by MoveOn.com and starring Heather Graham seeks to make the case for the public option as a critical—and widely supported—component of health-care reform using a somewhat silly track-and-field conceit. “What does Hea...[Read on] |
Ladies first – Women’s Health Amendment Vote Coming Soon
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
You know what they say — ladies first.
The Senate has finally begun debating the historic health care reform bill. The first amendment offered is the Women...[Read on] |
Senate Health Reform Bill Must Be Improved in Conference
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NWLC Calls Abortion Compromise Unworkable and Unfair
Today, Senate Democratic leaders said they reached an agreement on the details of their legislation to reform the health care system.The following is a statement by Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President...[Read on] |
Score One for Women Over Wellpoint
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by Thao Nguyen, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
What a difference a month makes! Only a few weeks ago, we told you about an exclusive new report from Reuters that showed how far insurance industry giant Wellpoint had gone to put profit o...[Read on] |
With Senate Health Reform Passage Likely, Women Hold Out Hope for Improvements
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by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate, National Women's Law Center
At 9:30am on Saturday morning, my cell phone buzzed. “Blizzard AND healthcare reform?” my friend texted. “Nelson budged!” Elated, I leapt out of bed and ran over to my laptop...[Read on] |
Some Health Choices That Women Could Do Without
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
This post is part of a series on Women and Health Reform.
NWLC’s health and reproductive rights team does a lot of work around the importance of choice. We advocate for reproduct...[Read on] |
Domestic violence: one more reason for health care reform
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I just received this email from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t already know this:
Eight states (Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyo...[Read on] |
The Time is Now: Women Can't Wait for Health Reform
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Today, the House of Representatives released its much-awaited final health care legislation. The following is a statement by Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC):
“The House bill marks another historic step o...[Read on] |
Breaking News: Senate Confirms Kathleen Sebelius as New Secretary for Health and Human Services
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by Thao Nguyen, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center For weeks, we have been telling you why Kathleen Sebelius is qualified to lead the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services (HHS). She has an outstanding record in health care, early edu...[Read on] |
What Happens If Stupak Wins? Watch the Video
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
The health care battle isn’t over yet. And anti-choice Members of Congress are hard at work as we speak.
As Congressional leaders work to iron out differ...[Read on] |
Hold That Line: Update on Abortion in Health Reform
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by Micole Allekotte, Health Fellow, National Women's Law Center
As the clock ticks down on a Senate vote on Health Reform, my high school cheerleaders’ rallying cry to the defense, “HOLD—THAT—LINE!” comes to mind. Health reform will ensure ...[Read on] |
New Moms, Older Moms, and Health Reform
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
To kick off NWLC's recognition of National Women’s Health Week, and in light of yesterday’s Mother’s Day holiday, I’ve been considering how health reform will improve mothers' heal...[Read on] |
White House health summit: Women left out in the cold
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Ladies, you didn’t want an equal voice in health care reform, right? Good - because holding 17% of Congress won’t do it for you, and being only 10.5% of today’s special health...
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STOP STUPAK: Make sure health reform isn’t used to restrict access to insurance coverage for abortion
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by Micole Allekotte, Health Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today the National Women’s Law Center is joining with other women’s rights and health care advocates and activists in a national day of action to tell Congress and the President that ...[Read on] |
Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill
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Abortion compromise, subsidies must be improved in conference
Today, the Senate voted 60 to 39 to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The following is a statement by Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women's Law Center...[Read on] |
Health Reform: Good for Mothers, Good for Families
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by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate, National Women's Law Center
Cross-posted from Say Ahhh!
There is a common misconception that all low-income people -- or, at least, all poor parents -- are eligible for Medicaid. It may derive from a mistaken c...[Read on] |
Drama-Free Health Reform Town Hall Meeting: Almost Shocking Enough for a Headline
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by Thao Nguyen, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
I have to admit it. I was up for a fight. I had borrowed my co-worker Robin’s flip camera and brought along my own digital camera. My co-worker Candace and I jumped into a cab and...[Read on] |
Show Senator Kyl Maternity Care is Good for All Boy and Girls
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center “First of all, I don’t need maternity care. And so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy...[Read on] |
Health Reform Will End Gender Rating, Kind of, Sort of, Maybe…
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by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
As we’ve discussed here many times before, gender rating is the harmful and discriminatory insurance practice of charging individuals and employers different premiums based on gender. ...[Read on] |
Affordable Care Act Helps Women Except That...
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This is according to a story linked on DailyKos.com , via a Web MD story on a new Commonwealth Fund Study. (PDF)
About 7.3 million women aged 19 to 64 were turned down when they tried to buy an insurance plan, charged a higher rate than men, or had a ...[Read on] |
Her Ovaries, His Cigarettes: Which Costs More in the Individual Health Insurance Market?
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
For most of their lives, women are charged more than men for health plans in the individual insurance market. This is a consequence of “gender rating,” the common insurance industry pr...[Read on] |
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