Once again, the House of Representatives is voting on the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law enacted in 2010.Repealing this law would harm women and their families and once again allow insurance companies to treat being a woman as a pre-existing condition.
Many parts of the health care reform bill constituted a step forward for women's health in a number of ways. Repeal would again allow insurance companies to deny women coverage if they've had a Cesarean section, breast or cervical cancer, or received medical treatment for domestic or sexual violence. Repeal would eliminate the extension of dependent coverage to children up to age 26 and allow insurers to deny children coverage for pre-existing conditions and to require women to get a referral to see their ob/gyn. Repealing this law would mean returning to the old, broken system in which women paid a steep price in their health care just for being women.
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