Fact Sheets

Legal Challenges to the Contraceptive Coverage Provision of the Affordable Care Act Are Without Merit

April 27, 2012

This fact sheet provides information on the contraceptive coverage provision of the health care law and discusses the legal challenges that it faces.

Brochure: How the Health Care Law is Helping Women and Their Families

April 26, 2012

A brochure about how the health care law is helping women and their families.

April Reform Matters Conference Call Agenda

April 11, 2012

The April Reform Matters conference call includes discussions on the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on women’s preventive services; final rule on student health plans; final rules on Medicaid eligibility and establishment of exchanges and qualified health plans. 

Contraceptive Coverage without Cost Sharing Under the Federal Health Care Law: What Students Should Know

April 09, 2012

This fact sheet provides information for students on what the health care law means for them in terms of coverage of certain preventive health services and screenings without cost-sharing. It also provides students at religiously-affiliated universities with some steps to take to ensure that female students get access to contraception as quickly as possible.

The Health Care Litigation: What Women Could Lose

March 26, 2012

In 2010, Congress passed the landmark Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, known as the “Affordable Care Act” or “ACA.” The ACA is intended to achieve near-universal health insurance coverage, slow the growth of health care costs and insurance premiums, and end an array of insurance practices that have prevented individuals from obtaining health insurance and health care. One of the ACA’s primary goals is to improve women’s health and address the discrimination women have faced in the health insurance market—disadvantages and discrimination that often lead women to bear significant costs or go without health care altogether. The law begins to remedy the economic impact of the discrimination that women have long faced in the health insurance market.

Access to Preventive Health Care for Women in the New Health Care Law: Frequently Asked Questions

March 23, 2012

The health care law makes preventive care more accessible and affordable to millions of Americans. This is especially important to women, who are more likely than men to avoid needed health care, including preventive care, because of cost. To help address these cost barriers and make sure all women have access to preventive health care, one section of the new health care law requires all new and non-grandfathered private insurance plans to cover a wide range of preventive services without co-payments or other cost sharing requirements.

Contraceptive Coverage in the Health Care Law: Frequently Asked Questions

March 23, 2012

The health care law makes preventive care more accessible and affordable to millions of Americans. This is especially important to women, who are more likely than men to avoid needed health care, including preventive care, because of cost. To help address these cost barriers and make sure all women have access to preventive health care, one section of the health care law requires all new and non-grandfathered private insurance plans to cover a wide range of preventive services, including services such as mammograms, pap smears, smoking prevention and contraceptives without co-payments or other cost sharing requirements.

Contraceptive Coverage “Accommodation” of Religiously-Affiliated Employers: Frequently Asked Questions

March 23, 2012

A narrow class of religious employers – churches and other houses of worship – are exempt from the contraceptive coverage requirement.  In addition, the Administration has proposed an accommodation that would enable religiously-affiliated organizations beyond churches – such as universities and hospitals -  to avoid directly providing contraceptive coverage, but would ensure that all women are guaranteed coverage of this critical service without cost sharing.

State-by-State Fact Sheets: Women and the Health Care Law

March 20, 2012

These fact sheets provide information on how women from each state and the District of Columbia are currently being helped by the health care law and what benefits and protections are to come.

I Will Not Be Denied Video Fact Sheet

March 19, 2012

The National Women’s Law Center released a new video, I Will Not Be DeniedTM, to highlight the important protections of the health care law and help you join the celebration to protect women’s health and the law.  This fact sheet follows the script of video so you can understand the important ways the health care law is already increasing women’s access to health care.