Health Care Reform Bill: How Will It Help Women

By Susan Thompson on March 28, 2010, 7:39 am

The new health reform program is proposed to create a system that actually provides overall health care – not just sick care. Health care involves the total well-being of every person. It also includes coverage for when a person is sick. However, the overall program will allow for visits for health maintenance. This will certainly assist women to better cope with issues that affect them.

What Health Reform Will Do For Women

One of the great benefits women will experience is the ban on denying health care to women with pre-existing conditions. This might be something as basic as having a C-section in the past. Women will also benefit from the breast cancer awareness program championed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The bill will also guarantee to women, and their families, maternity, newborn and pediatric services, and preventative care and immunizations. Women will also find an increased access to prescription drugs. This is an important measure, particularly for older women who live on fixed incomes.

Some Women Have Gone Without

During the last two years 20 percent of women, over the age of 50, throughout the United States, has not received a mammogram. Too, many health plans in the individual insurance market do not cover maternity benefits. The new system will change this by offering coverage of prevention along with basic health care services.

 

Difficulties Some Women Have Suffered In The Past

More than 50% of the women living in the United States have reported it necessary to postpone needed procedures because they could not afford the cost. In other situations one-third of women were forced to give and take; in other words, in order to meet a medical procedure they were forced to give up a basic necessity in order to have health care coverage.

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One Response to “Health Care Reform Bill: How Will It Help Women”

1. Anita Beckwith says:

   March 28, 2010 at 3:48 pm

   I will not deny that, in the long run, this bill will be good for all. However, I just read this blog post and wonder if it won’t be too little too late for many women age 40 to 64