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		Health Care Reform - A Woman's Issue Health Care Reform - a Woman's Issue discusses the factors influencing women's health care and why women need to be active advocates for change that meets their health needs. Health Care Reform - A Women's Issue In this important article, Health Care Reform - A Women's Issue, Anne Kasper puts health care reform and women into a historical context and discusses where we are now. Thanks to the Boston Women's Health Book Collective for giving WUHI permission to use this article from their site - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/. Women's Health Care Reform Matters The National Women's Law Center is leading the charge for quality comprehensive, affordable health care that meets the needs of women and their families. Our Reform Matters: Provides women's advocates with tools to be active and vocal advocates in the fight for progressive health care reform on the national and state levels. Why Older Women Need Health Care Reform Health care reform is important for older and senior women as they deal with age rating of health insurance, the rising costs of Medicare premiums, and obtaining 'medi-gap' insurance to cover the services not included in Medicare. How Health Insurance Reform Will Help America's Older and Senior Women , a report prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services, demonstrates how the current health insurance market does not work for older women. Domestic Violence - A Pre-existing Condition? We all know that health insurers make their own rules to justify their decisions. Pre-existing conditions is just one of them. But, did you realize that some insurers consider domestic violence as a pre-existing condition? Domestic violence is a "pre-existing condition"? tells which states and which insurers are involved. Comparison of Health Care Reform Proposals This Kaiser Family Foundation summary of the Senate Finance Committee America's Healthy Future Act of 2009, the Senate HELP Committee Affordable Health Choices Act and the House Tri-Committee America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R. 3200) describes the key components of these leading health reform proposals. Health Care Reform Process in Congress In a 14-9 vote largely along party lines, members of the Senate Finance Committee approved its plan to reform the U.S. health-care system. The measure now needs to be reconciled with other proposals. This interactive graphic from the Washington Post compares each of the current proposals according to cost, coverage and key provisions. Legislative Process for Health Care Reform Proposals in Congress The Health Care Bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee on October 13, 2009 is one of five bills being considered in Congress. These bills must now go through the legislative process to produce one bill to present to the President. This graphic from the Boston Globe illustrates how that process will take place. Public Option: an Essential Component of Health Care Reform Much of the debate surrounding current health reform proposals concerns the inclusion of a 'public option'. The false accusations from those who don't support a public option have confused many. Two explanations of the public option help to dispel those false ideas: The Center for Policy Analysis clarifies the misconceptions in their, Explanation of Public Option Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor, gives a concise explanation of the public option in this video, The Truth Behind Public Option. Health Insurance Subsidies For health reform proposals that would require all persons to purchase health insurance, health insurance subsidies is one mechanism that would assist low income families to purchase the insurance. Fact sheets from the Kaiser Family Foundation show how these subsidies would function: Explaining Health Care Reform: What Is Health Insurance? presents an overview of health insurance with a discussion of health insurance subsidies included. Explaining Health Care Reform: What Are Health Insurance Subsidies? focuses specifically on the purpose and function of health insurance subsidies. Health Reform Subsidy Calculator: This tool illustrates premiums and government assistance under the types of reform proposals being considered in Congress for people under age 65 who purchase insurance coverage on their own and are not covered through their employer, Medicare or Medicaid. Sicker and Poorer: The Consequences of Being Uninsured http://www.kff.org/uninsured/20020510-index.cfm A report by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured synthesizes the major findings of the past 25 years of health services research assessing the most important effects of health insurance. The report evaluates thousands of citations and research articles to assess the consequences of being uninsured for health status and economic opportunity and concludes that the weight of this large body of research makes a compelling case that health insurance does lead to improved health and better access to care.

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