Healthcare Battles and Women
As the healthcare battles loom, women have a lot at stake in the outcome. According to the website, womensenews, women are twice as likely to be covered as men as dependents in health insurance programs sponsored by employers. This means of course that if they divorce their husband, or become widowed, or if the husband loses his job, the women are left holding the bag, and that can make life more precarious. To suddenly lose your health coverage is a frightening thing in the United States. There is no safety net.
Women make up two-thirds of the adult Medicaid beneficiaries. This is a big number to say the least. Therefore Medicaid covers four out of ten births in this country, and two-thirds of all family planning services. The bills under consideration in this healthcare debate would change the criteria for Medicaid eligibility. Women comprise more than half of all Medicare beneficiaries. In the group over the age of 85, 70 percent are women.
So what is Congress thinking of doing with the Medicare patients? Well, for one thing, it is considering requiring them to pay more for preventive care such as mammograms, pap smears, and bone density screenings.
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