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In the past year, thanks to the health care law:Over 20 million women with private insurance have received at least one preventive health care service without a co-pay or deductible.
Over 39 million women no longer face lifetime limits on coverage, so they can get the health care they need.
About 2.5 million young adults gained health coverage because they could stay on their parents’ plans.
And this is just the beginning. The health care law is working for women by helping them get the care they need. So why are some opponents of the law fighting to take away these benefits and common-sense protections?
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The health care law is working for women, helping them get the care they need. The law provides important benefits and protections that promote better health and lower costs. Now, millions more women can get preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies without a co-pay. The law also stops insurance companies from dropping anyone’s coverage simply because they’re sick.
But this is just the beginning. Later this year, millions more women will have access to well-woman exams and birth control without a co-pay and all health plans will have to include maternity care. Other important benefits and protections will continue to roll out until the law is fully implemented, insurance companies will no longer be allowed to charge women higher premiums than men. But opponents of the law are fighting to take away all these important benefits and common-sense protections.
Take a stand and help us protect women’s health care. Join the National Women’s Law Center’s campaign and tell opponents of affordable care “I Will NOT Be Denied.”™
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Two years ago, Christine Turner shared her story of surviving a rape that insurance companies considered a “pre-existing condition,” denying her coverage.
Her story cut through the political noise, helped change the dynamic of the fight over health care reform, and helped us win passage of the landmark Affordable Care Act. Now we are fighting to keep the law. Your stories can help illustrate what statistics and fact sheets can’t always do: show us how the health care law is changing the lives of every day Americans.
Share your story of how the health care law is helping you on our story blog. http://action.nwlc.org/site/R?i=NWaDKd_EpRV04F6GIYsfuw The story blog is an open forum where people can upload their photos and write about how the law is helping them. After you’ve shared, read some of the amazing stories from women across the country about how the health care law is helping them.
Were you one of the 3.8 million women on Medicare this year who received mammograms without co-pays or other out-of-pockets costs? Is your child one of the nearly one million young adults who gained health coverage due in part to the new law’s provision that allows young adults up to the age of 26 to stay on their parent’s health plan? Are you no longer paying that $20 co-pay for preventive care ?
Stories help cut through the political noise and show others why the law is important and how it is helping Americans from coast to coast. Join the story blog today. http://action.nwlc.org/site/R?i=5c8vCHxiW3uEW3lllBqZHg
Thanks to people like Christine and supporters like you, the health care law is improving the lives of women and their families. Thank you for all you do.
Sincerely,
Judy Waxman
Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights
National Women’s Law Center
State insurance regulators are threatening to gut the new rule in the health reform law that keeps insurance premiums in check. This rule, called the medical loss ratio (MLR), requires insurance companies to spend at least 80% of your premiums on medical care instead of using it to pad their profits and pay millions to their CEOs. State insurance commissioners are holding a secret meeting tomorrow to decide whether they want to force a vote to rob $1 billion in rebates from consumers.
Click here and send a message to your insurance commissioners today. Tell them: You work for us, not the insurance companies – hands off the MLR. http://healthcareforamericanow.org/page/m/3560d82d/5131405c/3321ece5/786f0cd9/850002441/VEsH/
It’s no surprise that the Wall Street run insurance companies are trying to kill any rule that cuts into their excessive profits. That’s why they’re pressuring your state insurance commissioner to change the law to let them take $1 billion of your money. The truth is that the medical loss ratio works and has already lowered premium rates for some Connecticut residents by 19 percent!
Fight the insurance companies’ army of lobbyists today. Help us put an end to the insurers’ business as usual. Tell your insurance commissioner – hands off the MLR.
Health insurance companies continue to make record profits, and their CEOs have collected more than $1 billion in personal compensation in the last decade while the majority of Americans are barely getting by. Fight this greed-driven corporate power today.
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/page/m/3560d82d/5131405c/3321ece5/786f0cd9/850002441/VEsE/
In Solidarity,
Melinda Gibson
Health Care for America Now
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