Women & the Affordable Care Act: Moving Forward... Protecting Women's Health Care

This is the toolkit of information for the coalition of organizations planning events for the Women's Day of Action to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. The Women's Day of Action is Thursday, March 24. This page will be updated frequently until then. Please continue to check back often.

National Webinars

Moving Forward... Protecting Women's Health Care - Women and the Affordable Care Act

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the health care law, the National Women's Law Center, MomsRising and the National Partnership for Women and Families joined forces with women's health advocates from across the country to discuss the parts of the new health care law that have already gone into effect and what provisions are yet to come. The webinar featured women’s health advocates, a MomsRising member sharing her story on how the law is already impacting her family, and very special guests from President Obama's Administration -

• Melody Barnes, the Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Domestic Policy Advisor to President Obama; and
• Jeanne Lambrew, Deputy Assistant to President Obama for Health Policy

The webinar was held on Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 1 PM Eastern.

Women Small Business Owners & The Affordable Care Act

National Physicians Alliance Lunch-Time Webinar Series: Understanding the ACA - What Physicians Should Know

• View the archived webinar
  

Coalition Press Statements

• The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
• National Coalition of LGBT Health
• National Women's Law Center
• Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health

The National Women's Law Center and MomsRising Women's Health Blog-a-thon

• National Women's Law Center posts
• MomsRising posts

 Coalition Materials

• Women and the New Health Care Law Trivia
• ACA & Older Women
• ACA & Women Affordability
• ACA & Women Coverage Statistics
• ACA & Women Health Status
• ACA & Women Prevention & Wellness Statistics
• Move Forward Protect Health Fortune Teller
• Protect Your Care
• Social Media Guide

Resources

Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum  

• APIAHF Toolkit
• Health Care Reform Resource Center
• The Impact of Health Care Reform on Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Survivors of Domestic Violence

 Bedsider 

• Bedsider Birth Control Support Network
• The Bedsider National Free Birth Control Finder 

Brigham and Women's Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology

• Massachusetts Health Reform: Impact on Women's Health

Childbirth Connection  

• United States Maternity Care Facts and Figures
• Blueprint for Action: Steps Toward a High-Quality, High-Value Maternity Care System  
• Average Maternity Services Payments, United States and Other Countries
• Why Does the Cesarean Section Rate Keep Going Up?
• U.S. Health Care Reform Legislation Offers Major New Benefits to Childbearing Women and Newborns

Ibis Reproductive Health

• Low-Income Women's Access to Contraception after Massachusetts Health Care Reform (executive summary, Spanish langauage executive summary is also available)
• Young Adults and the Coverage of Contraception in the Wake of Health Care Reform (executive summary)
• Young Adults, Health Insurance & Access to Contracption in the Wake of Health Care Reform (executive summary)
• My Little Black Book for Sexual Health (also available in Spanish)

If you are interested in the full report or Spanish language materials, please email Stephanie Drahan at sdrahan@nwlc.org

MomsRising

• Health Care Stories by State
• Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories for Healthcare Reform: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned
• Why the Affordable Care Act Made 2010 the Best Year of My Son's Life
• Health Care Coverage Saved My Son
• My Backyard Meeting with President Obama

National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

• Health Care Reform: What the Reform Means for API Women and Girls
• Affordable Care Act Implementation Homepage

National Health Law Program 

• Q&A The New Family Planning State Option Under the ACA
• ACA and Nursing Mothers
• Health Care Law Litigation Timeline
• ACA and Reproductive Health Webinar
• Health Care Reform and Women's Health Chart

National Partnership for Women and Families

• The Affordable Care Act: Improving Health Care for Women
• Time and Place to Pump at Work
• The Affordable Care Act: Easing the Burden on Older Women
• The Affordable Care Act: Increasing Access to Health Care for Lower-Income Women & Families

National Physicians Alliance

• Free Resources on the New Health Law
• Nuts and Bolts of the Affordable Care Act Webinar

National Women's Law Center

• Health Reform Implementation Timeline: Key Provisions for Women's Health 
• Women and Health Care Reform At-A-Glance (includes links to state by state fact sheets)
• What Women Need to Know about Health Reform Series
• I'm a Woman who... is uninsured/has a pre-existing condition/gets insured through an employer/etc. Series
• Repealing the Affordable Care Act Will Hurt Women (includes links to state by state fact sheets)
• The Affordable Care Act and Reproductive Health: What's at Stake
• The Health Care Litigation: What Women Could Lose
• Moving Forward...Protecting Women's Health Care - Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act