Health Insurance

Women have long faced unfair and discriminatory health insurance practices, including charging women more than men for the same coverage. As new health care reform laws are implemented, we're working to ensure that women can find and afford the insurance they need.

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Fact Sheet | How the Affordable Care Act Helps Women

December 08, 2011

The Affordable Care Act makes important advances for women’s health and, when fully implemented, will provide millions of women and their families with access to high-quality and affordable health care and coverage. While some parts of the law are being phased in over time, there are many provisions that women and families are already benefitting from.

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Webinars & Presentations | December 2011 Reform Matters Conference Call and Agenda

December 07, 2011

The December 2011 Reform Matters conference call focused on the challenge of the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court and other federal updates.

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Fact Sheet | Letter to HHS Secretary on the Development of the Essential Health Benefit Package

December 05, 2011

A variety of consumer groups came together to lay out the principles they believe should guide the development of the Essential Health Benefit package. In the letter, we ask the Secretary to ensure the creation of a benefit package that addresses the insufficient coverage currently sold in the individual and small group markets and that covers the physical, mental, and behavioral health care services that people need to get and stay as healthy and functional as possible.

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Fact Sheet | The Rehberg Draft Abuses the Appropriations Process to Undermine Women’s Access to Preventive Health Care and Harm Women’s Health

November 30, 2011

The Rehberg Draft includes dangerous provisions that could threaten women’s ability to purchase health insurance that includes abortion coverage, aims to eliminate millions of women’s access to basic, preventive healthcare, and expands existing refusal laws that would harm women’s health.

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Fact Sheet | Letter to the President Opposing the Religious Employer Exemption

November 30, 2011

The undersigned organizations, representing millions of health care consumers, patients and providers, strongly supported passage of the Affordable Care Act and are working to protect the Act from efforts to undermine or repeal it. To that end, we are writing in opposition to the religious employer exemption issued as an Interim Final Rule on August 3, 2011, to the requirement that all new health insurance plans provide coverage for contraceptives without cost-sharing, and to urge you to reject calls to deny additional women the coverage they need.

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