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Healthcare Reform Pro-Choice Roundup

By CWLC, CWLC News, Reproductive Justice, March 29th, 2010

USA-HEALTHCARE/What does healthcare reform mean for women’s reproductive freedom? In a nut shell, there is no impact on the question of abortion as Obama’s executive order he promised Congressman Bart Stupak (left) re-enforces the Hyde Amendment. Let’s see what the “fixes” yield as health reform moves forward.

Below is a round-up of the thoughts on healthcare reform and women’s reproductive freedom. We’d like to thank Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com for collecting these.

Katha Pollitt at The Nation:

You can call prochoice leaders hypocritical or cowardly or feeble or excessively deferential to the president’s agenda. But one thing you can’t call them is selfishly obsessed with their own political purity. That would be the antichoicers — the Catholic bishops, Bart Stupak, Ben Nelson. They were the big evil babies who…

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Gender Rating Healthcare Reform

By CWLC, CWLC News, Gender Discrimination, Reproductive Justice, March 11th, 2010

Health insurers are legally allowed to consider gender in the health insurance market, allowing insurers to charge women more than men. The National Women’s Law Center conducted a study last year that highlights health insurance gender disparity. The NWLC study found that 95 percent of insurance companies charge women more than men for the same coverage for individual policies. For 60 percent of plans, a 40-year-old female who doesn’t smoke will pay more for her policy than a 40-year-old male who does smoke.

Health insurance companies blame the disparity on reproductive issue costs. Yet the study found that some 25-year-old women are charged up to 84 percent more than men of the same age for health plans (in the individual market) that exclude maternity coverage. And, if you…

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