Keely Monroe, Program Coordinator, Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need
With a little over a week for the Congressional super committee to complete its work, we must raise our voices to ensure Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are protected in the final deficit reduction package.
What does the Super Committee have to do with women’s health? A LOT, because the committee is considering making big cuts in programs like Medicaid that are important for the health of women across our lifespan!
Medicaid is essential to the health care women need because we are the majority of Medicaid beneficiaries and will suffer disproportionately if cuts are made. Medicaid provides vital health care services to the most vulnerable and underserved women in our country. This care includes family planning, prenatal and maternity care to breast and cervical cancer screening and, later in life, long-term care in the community or nursing facilities. The ACA expands Medicaid eligibility so that more women will have coverage for the care they need (starting in 2014). If the Super Committee cuts the Medicaid budget, they threaten the ACA’s guarantee to do that.
Make your voice heard! Tell the Super Committee that they must REJECT a plan that cuts Medicaid. Instead, we need to urge them to support a balance approach to deficit reduction, including revenue increases, so that women’s health will be protected.
For more information on Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need, please visit us at http://www.raisingwomensvoices.net/.
I just heard you speak on cSpan regarding the affordable healthcare act and contraception. My questions are simply. 1. What give the Federal Government the right to dictate/mandate that a religious institution dispense something that is against their moral conscience? 2. Why should I have to pay for the consequences of your ( women in general ) sexual escapades out of wedlock? Isn’t contraception readily available at the store not to mention free abstinence? The answers are simple. 1. There is no constitutional basis for mandating an individual to privately contract with another simply because that person exist. None. It will be overturned without question and furthermore, Religious freedom the real issue which far outweighs any concern over governmental management of reproduction or anything else within the bounds of individual freedoms. I urge you to rise above this singular issue and view it from a constitutional point of view and this administration’s infringement on the sovereignty of the individual to choose for themselves by their owen conscience.
Imagine in the future that the government required every women to be inoculated from a virus or disease only later to find out that the inoculation had terrible consequences that were unknown at the time. Good intentions can have bad consequences and there-in lies the danger of subordinating your individual right to choose base on your conscience. ObamaCare is ripe for this kind of abuse called Tyranny.