Reform Matters Toolkit
What Advocates Need to Know
Building from the National Women's Law Center's previous publications, including a series of issue briefs on Women and Health Coverage and Women and Medicaid: NWLC Toolkit for Advocates, the upcoming Reform Matters Toolkit: What Advocates Need to Know will help women's advocates be full participants in the health care reform movement at the state and national levels. This resource outlines the basics of health care reform and explores several reform issues and their impact on women's access to comprehensive, affordable, high-quality care.
As a growing number of national and state leaders make efforts to address the failing health care system, there have never been so many opportunities to ensure that women have access to the health care they need. Women's advocates can play an integral role in making sure that health reform plans address women-specific needs and the challenges that women face in the health care system. Armed with the knowledge of women's unique relationships with the health care system, advocates can use the Reform Matters Toolkit to analyze current reform proposals in their states, make informed assessments about how these reforms would impact women, and take action to effect real progress for women and health care.
Available Summer 2008!
The toolkit will feature sections on:
- Health Reform Basics
- The Role of Public Coverage Programs
- Exploring Issues in Health Reform
- Making Health Care Affordable
- Promoting Comprehensive Health Benefits
- Lessons from the States
- Addressing Health Care Costs
- Addressing Health Care Quality
- Talking about Health Reform