This is the same woman who forbids workers from making eye contact with her.
Via Huffington Post:
My interest in health care policy was spurred by researching women’s health care issues and discovering more women than men die from heart disease. Heart research, however, was primarily conducted on men. I approached Cedars-Sinai Hospital and helped establish theWomen’s Heart Center there. Under the guidance of Dr. Noel Bairey Merz, the staff is conducting groundbreaking research. From this point, I naturally became interested in how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will help women, and as a mother, how it will affect young people.
The law is particularly important to American women. Formerly, a healthy young woman could legally be charged premiums 150 percent higher than a young man of the same age and health. Pregnancy was considered a “pre-existing condition” commonly used to deny coverage for some women. Under early provisions of the ACA however, 45 million womenstarted receiving preventative services from both private insurance and Medicare. These services included prenatal care and well-baby visits, as well as mammograms, cervical cancer screenings, flu shots and domestic violence screenings. The improvements in prescription drug coverage under Medicare saved 2 million women $1.2 billion in 2011 alone. And over 1 million uninsured, young adult women were able to receive coverage through their parents.
Young people benefited at the outset. Nearly a third of young adults have no health carecoverage. Already the ACA prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals under 19-years-old based on pre-existing conditions. Young people are now free to stay on their parents’ policies until they are 26-years-old. Because of this early ACA provision, over 3 million young, previously uninsured adults gained insurance. Compare this with the 41 percent of young adults who forewent needed medical/health care because of costs prior to the ACA. Under the ACA, young people making less than $43,000 will also have tax credits available to them to make coverage affordable.