Women and Obamacare

Boosted by a huge shift in women’s support, a new poll shows President Obama leading Mitt Romney by a 9-point margin in the nation’s dozen top battleground states. Now’s the time to be loud and proud of how Obamacare supports women — and why we can’t let Republican politicians take it away.

Women want control over their health care. Don’t let politicians put insurance companies back in charge.

Women want the peace of mind of knowing they and their families will be able to get the health care they need. Twenty million women with private insurance have already taken advantage of the health care law’s prevention benefits. Starting this summer, millions more will get mammograms, contraception, and health check-ups without extra cost.

Mitt Romney and Republicans in Congress want to take away these protections. Republicans want to allow insurance companies to keep charging women more than men and denying them coverage because of “pre-existing conditions” like pregnancy or having been a victim of domestic violence. This isn’t fair on women as they have no way of controlling these matters, some are even visiting websites like https://www.chaffinluhana.com/vaginal-rejuvenation-lawsuit/ in order to try to get the money spent on them they deserve!

Women want control over their health care. Politicians who want to put insurance companies back in charge have no business leading America.

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ATTACKS AND RESPONSES

MITT MOMENT: “Hey guys. We can’t play the game like that. You’ve got to get insurance when you are well.”
RESPONSE:

• Guess what: the solution to making sure everybody’s covered is Obamacare!
• But instead of making sure that Americans with pre-existing conditions won’t be left on their own when they get sick, Mitt Romney would rather have more families go bankrupt.
• In one fell swoop, Romney both affirmed the need for Obamacare and showed just out of touch he is with the needs and concerns of regular American families.

ATTACK: “Obamacare violates our individual liberty and religious freedoms.”
RESPONSE:

• We can respect both religious liberty and women’s health, and Obamacare does exactly that. Under the new contraception policy, women will get access to birth control without extra cost no matter where they work and no religious organization will be required to pay for it.
• Washington Republicans and Mitt Romney, on the other hand, want to let any corporation deny any health service — whether birth control or any other care — to anyone who works for them.
• Parents should be in control of when and how many kids they have — not their bosses or the corporations they work for.
• For all the Americans already benefiting from the health care law, Obamacare means freedom: freedom from the fear that an illness will bankrupt your family, freedom from the want of health care for your loved ones, freedom to start a new business, and the freedom to change jobs.

ATTACK: “The polling shows Americans want the health care law struck down.”
RESPONSE:

• The President’s political opponents have spent hundreds of millions of dollars distorting, smearing, and misrepresenting the health care law since the beginning. Yet the majority of Americans still say we should give Obamacare a chance or leave it alone.
• Most Americans actually support the individual mandate, which is really just a free-rider fee, after they learn it doesn’t apply to most people because they already have health insurance.
• It’s time to move forward — we can’t afford to put insurance companies back in charge and turn the clock back on the progress we’ve made.

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Obamacare is working. The health care law’s benefits for women include:
  • Ending the insurance industry’s practice of charging women up to 150% more than men more for the same coverage — costing women $1 billion more a year. (See this chart.)
  • Banning insurance companies from denying women coverage due to “pre-existing conditions” like having been pregnant or a victim of domestic violence.
  • Providing comprehensive coverage of basic preventive services without extra cost, such as mammograms, pap smears and contraceptive coverage.
  • Requiring all new health plans to cover maternity and newborn care.
  • Getting rid of lifetime coverage limits for 40 million adult women and 28 million children.
• For state-by-state data on how the health care law is already working for America’s women, please click here.
• Starting in 2014, Members of Congress will get their health coverage through the new Affordable Insurance Exchanges, meaning Congress will have the same health care as the rest of us.
• Americans strongly support many individual parts of the health law:
  • Nearly 80 percent support the insurance exchanges that will allow more than 30 million Americans to get affordable health insurance.
  • Over 70 percent support preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
  • Nearly 60 percent support letting young adults stay on their parents’ plans until they turn 26, while they finish college or look for a job.
  • Nearly 60 percent support requiring insurance companies to reimburse subscribers if they don’t spend at least 80 percent of their revenues on care rather than overhead or profits. This year alone, patients will get up to over $300 million in these rebates.
  • Over 60 percent of Americans support the free rider fee provision after they’re informed most Americans would still get their health coverage through their employers and thus wouldn’t be affected by it. Their support goes up even more the more they learn about it.

What’s unpopular is the health care system we had before — Americans overwhelmingly agreed it was broken.

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