Health Care Reform for Women

It has been shown repeatedly that women, especially the working poor, are much more adversely affected by the current health care system that can choose to deny them coverage for spurious reasons or legally charge them twice as much as their male counterparts for the exact same coverage. Abortion is already rarely funded by private insurance companies and women on Medicaid are prevented from having the procedure funded due to the Hyde Amendment. The current debate over healthcare reform (and especially the role of abortion within that debate) has the potential to include help for the women who need it the most, or yet again shut women out of fair and affordable healthcare.

The National Women's Law Center has a great advocacy kit for women's health care reform up on their site; it has specific suggestions for what to during the August congressional recess to further the fight for women's health care reform.

If you are interested in an easy way to make your voice heard for women's health care, join us at the N. Lamar Central Market on Wed. Aug 19th, 6:30pm for a letter writing party! Make sure your representative knows that you support their pro-choice and pro-women efforts, or let them know why the women of Texas need their support now during this critical health care debate.