The ACA: A Victory For Women
By 1. As many as 10 million will get coverage in 2014 under Medicaid expansion, and by 2016, thanks to other provisions of the ACA, that number will grow to 13.5 million women.
2. By 2014, all plans sold to individuals will be required to cover maternity care. According to the National Women’s Law Center, 12 percent of those plans include that. Remember when Arizona’s Jon Kyl said he didn’t think his insurance should have to cover pregnancy and childbirth because he would never need it? The ACA destroys the mindset that care needed only by women is of no general concern.
3. More than 20 million women will get expanded coverage of preventive services—prenatal care, mammograms, pap smears, breast-feeding supplies, testing for sexually transmitted diseases, well woman checkups, immunizations, birth control and more.
4. Insurance companies will be barred from dropping women’s coverage when they become pregnant or sick.
The list continues at the link. Although it must be said that Pollitt never considers the obvious counterfactual, Senate Majority Leader Avakian using the window created by the highetened contradictions to get single-payer through the House no later than 2020.