Did you see: “Stop sex discrimination in health care costs”

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Did you see: “Stop sex discrimination in health care costs”
from Obama 2012 Blog
Marcia Greenberger, co-founder of the National Women’s Law Center, spoke out today against the practice of charging women more than men for the same health care plan—a form of discrimination that will be eliminated by 2014, thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

The practice of gender rating costs women about $1 billion a year, based on average advertised premiums and the most recent data on the number of women in the individual market. For a woman in Texas struggling to get by on a low-wage job, pay for child care, and make the rent, being forced to pay an extra $646 a year in premiums because she is a woman can be an insurmountable hurdle.


Only 14 states are considering or have banned gender rating, including, most recently, California, Colorado, and New Mexico. But this problem is clearly not going away by itself. This national problem demands a national solution and, fortunately, we have one in the Affordable Care Act.

The Affordable Care Act is one of the most significant advances for women in our nation's history. This is no time to enable discrimination to continue and even turn back the clock on women's health.

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