From the New York Times, an article about how health care reform will help women, "Overhaul Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman". In the first example, an insurance company rejected a woman in Colorado because she'd had a Caesarean. Pictured are the woman with her 2 children. Read article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/health/30women.html

What Health Care Reform Will Do For Women and Families

On Sunday 3/21/10, the US House of Representatives passed the reconciliation version of Healthcare reform. We now await the Senate vote. Raising Women's Voices (an organization committed to ensuring women's concerns are addressed in the Healthcare reform package) just sent out a 2 page document summarizing how women and families will benefit by the bill as it now stands.

Go to http://www.raisingwomensvoices.net/storage/pdf_files/RWV-benefits-to-women-Final.pdf to read their document about "What women and families will get right away (in 2010, within six months of enactment)", "What we will get next year (2011)", and "What we will get after that (2012 though 2014)".

Please do all you can to urge your senators to pass the reconciliation bill without delay so that we can have meaningful healthcare reform.

Obviously the bill is not perfect - especially with regard to changes to abortion coverage and in targeting undocumented immigrants to not be insured (even if they pay for private insurance themselves). We need to work to improve such aspects of the bill.