Health Benefits for Women

The health care law, also known as the Affordable Care Act, protects women from discriminatory health insurance practices, makes health coverage more affordable and easier to obtain, and improves access to many of the health services women need. Approximately 13 million women will gain coverage because of the Affordable Care Act by 2016.  Millions of women already benefit from the new law, and all women will gain important protections when the law is fully implemented in 2014.

The  health care law has many benefits for women, including women like you who owns a small business. The fact sheet shares some of the ways that the new law will help.