Thirty Million Women Will Gain From Health Reform Law, Including About 15 Million Uninsured

[HuckleB]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/196417.php

"Approximately thirty million American women will gain from the new health reform law over the next ten years, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation based in New York.

The authors state that the law will stabilize women's growing exposure to ever-increasing health costs, and even reverse it, by subsidizing health insurance for approximately 15 million women who currently have to no health insurance cover, while at the same time strengthening existing coverage for another 14.5 million women deemed underinsured. Underinsured refers to individuals whose existing coverage only partly protects them from high medical bills.

Provisions of relevance to women include:

* Expanded eligibility for Medicaid
* Provision of subsidies to purchase health insurance
* Limiting out-of-pocket expenses
* Preventing insurance providers from charging higher premiums or turning down coverage based on gender or health status
* Mandatory new plans to cover pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care

Uninsured women who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid or premium subsidies will be able to gain comprehensive coverage.

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Just FYI...

:hi:

[Deep13]

1. Well, that's a good start.

It doesn't excuse exclusions other women's health matters.

[Triana]

2. They'll expand coverage for pregnancy & childbirth but not...

...family planning, birth control, or abortion?


How - odd, as those services are part of health care for women, too - yet they are excluded due to theologists and control freaks.

[DURHAM D]

3. Is that a Blue Cross Blue Shield website?

It appears to be but I could not really tell for sure.

[HuckleB]

4. No.

[flamingdem]

5. Yes it is a total ripoff to be charged for maternity when you don't want kids! nt