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Share Your Story: What do preventive health services with no co-pays or deductibles mean to you?

Has cost ever kept you or a family member from getting preventive care? Has it forced you to make tough choices, like delaying a health screening despite family history or putting off paying a bill so you can afford to see a doctor? We also would like to hear about any success stories! Have you received a benefit with no co-pay? Whatever it is, we want to hear from you!

Thanks to the health care law, new insurance plans are required to cover certain women's preventive health services with no co-payments or deductibles at the start of their next plan year. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 47 million women will benefit from these new services. That's huge!

Tell us — what do preventive health services with no co-pays or deductibles mean to you?

Your Stories

k

kalamazoo, mi,

Maybe my son wouldn't be dead and my daughter wouldn't be depressed and suicidal

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Kate Lopez

Burlington, VT, Clnician

It means I woud not have wound up in the hospital for a night with severe and unclontrollable spasms and intense back pain, because, I would have been getting the care I needed to heal my back. Italso means this one night would not have costme so much over the many months it took to pay back one hospital visit. I would not have missed a month of work, either.

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