Wed, August 01, 2012
Clare Coleman, National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA)
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
Today, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) gives women across the country a reason to celebrate. August 1 marks the beginning of a new health benefit: all women with new insurance plans will be able to access all FDA-approved contraceptive methods and other preventive health services with no co-pay, a long-standing barrier...
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Wed, August 01, 2012
Keely Monroe, Raising Women's Voices
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
Today is a day for millions of women like me to celebrate!
For the first time, our country is requiring all new health insurance plans to cover contraception – and do it without charging us co-pays and deductibles. It’s all because of the women’s preventive services provision of the new health care...
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Tue, July 31, 2012
Rebecca Spence, American Pacific Islander American Health Forum and Marissa Spalding, Black Women’s Health Imperative
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
We love MamaCare! Thanks to the health care law, on August 1 all new health insurance plans will have to provide pregnant women with coverage for gestational diabetes screening without charging us expensive co-pays and deductibles. Women of color and their babies stand to gain the most from this enormous benefit.
So...
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Mon, July 30, 2012
Stephanie S. Arnold Pang, National Coalition of STD Directors, guest blogger
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and resulting diseases (STDs) such as chlamydia remain a major epidemic in the United States. Each year, there are approximately 19 million new cases, approximately half of which go undiagnosed and untreated[i], giving the United States the highest STD rate in the industrialized...
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Sun, July 29, 2012
Sally Schaeffer, Futures Without Violence
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
While the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization has been stalled in Congress this year, how about a bit of good news for women who care about stopping this kind of violence?
Starting next week on August 1st, a new women’s health provision that was part of the new health care law, the...
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Sat, July 28, 2012
Megan Renner, US Breastfeeding Committee, Guest Blogger
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
For breastfeeding mothers and advocates, this August 1 means more than the usual start of World Breastfeeding Week and National Breastfeeding Month. It is also the date after which new health plans will be required to cover breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling without a co-pay, coinsurance or deductible. (Read an...
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Sat, July 28, 2012
Amy Romano, Childbirth Connection, Guest Blogger
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
This year, World Breastfeeding Week coincides with a major milestone for mothers: on August 1, the women’s preventive health provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) go into full effect. Every new insurance policy will now begin covering breastfeeding equipment and lactation support services without co-pays....
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Sat, July 28, 2012
Sheila Sanders, Illinois Maternal and Child Health Coalition
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
I am a proud breastfeeding mom and it gives me great joy to know that because of my choice to breastfeed, I gave my children the best possible start at life. Breast milk provides disease-fighting antibodies that can help protect infants from several types of illnesses and is easier for babies to digest than formula. Mothers...
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Fri, July 27, 2012
Carrie Broadus, Women Alive, guest blogger
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
HIV testing and counseling is important for women because it is a known fact that people of color, particularly women, in this country tend to find out about their HIV or AIDS diagnosis later into disease progression.
The launch on August 1st of the preventive services provision, which will require new insurance...
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Thu, July 26, 2012
Leana S. Wen, M.D., Our Bodies Ourselves, Guest Blogger
This article is cross-posted from Countdown to Coverage.
As an emergency physician, I tend to be on the other side of preventive care services. I see what happens when women don’t know about safer sex and birth control, and end up with complications from sexually transmitted infections. I see what happens when women do not get routine screening for cervical...
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