Health care reforms improve benefits for women

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President Obama’s law adds 8 preventive medical benefits for female patients. As of Wednesday, the next element of the health care reforms went into place, adding coverage for eight more free preventive medical benefits for women. These include many tests and services that had previously been paid for out of pocket. Among the benefits that are now included due to the health care reforms are: routine breast and pelvic exam checkups, screenings for sexually transmitted infections and domestic violence, and gestational diabetes, prenatal care, breast feeding supplies, pap tests, and…

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Health care reforms mean lower premiums for women

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At the moment, 90 percent of individual plans are more expensive for females. The current practice called gender rating, which will be eliminated by health care reforms, has caused the premiums for 90 percent of individual plans to be more expensive for women than they are for men with the same policy. Every year, women spend $1 billion more on their medical plans than they would without gender rating. This statistic is according to a recent report that was issued by the National Women’s Law Center regarding gender rating and…

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