Julianne Moore Breaks It Down: What's in the New Health Care Law for Women

Can't make heads or tails of health care reform? You're not alone -- a recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that a majority of Americans are confused about the new health care law and don't know enough about the details of the law to understand how it will affect them.

That's why we at Planned Parenthood enlisted one of our good friends, the magnificent actress Julianne Moore, to help explain how health care reform affects women. In less than two minutes, Ms. Moore, in her voice-over to our video, explains many of the positive benefits women can expect under the new law.

Check it out, and pass it on to all the women in your life, including your mother! After all, health care reform is the best Mother's Day gift ever.

Here's what the new law will do for women:

• Extend health care coverage to tens of millions of women and families who currently don't have insurance.
• Guarantee affordable access to lifesaving screenings for breast and cervical cancer.
• Stop the discriminatory practice of charging women more than men for health insurance.
• End the practice of denying insurance coverage because of pre-existing conditions, including breast cancer and pregnancy.
• Significantly increase access to reproductive health care, including family planning.
• Provide 75 million dollars for sex education and teen pregnancy prevention.

And here's what the new law won't do for women: it includes unacceptable new restrictions on private health insurance coverage for abortion. These restrictions won't go into effect until 2014, and Planned Parenthood is working to fix these restrictions before they can harm women.

 

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Comments

[Adolar]

09:46 PM on 04/28/2010

Considering what Oklahoma just did to the women in their state I think we women got bigger problems to deal with than what this new health insurance law - I mean healthcare law - debacle did (and will do) to us. It's open season on women and our health needs. Something like 32 states have begun to initiate legislation that will severely limit women's access to healthcare including birth control, abortions and full disclosure on reproductive healthcare.
It seems a lot of the politicians and bloggers are more concerned about alienating the illegal immigrants in Arizona than protecting the health and maintaining the legal rights of the female citizens of this country.

[LMPE]

04:33 PM on 04/28/2010

This is the sort of thing that we should be teaching in schools.

[nolongeramused]

08:41 PM on 04/28/2010

Exactly...like what is wrong with this country.