By Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
There is a lot of Wednesday morning quarterbacking about the reasons for, and impact of, yesterday’s election in Massachusetts.
As it relates to health reform, I think that more than a few people are getting it wrong. Regarding those who say that the election was a rebuke of [...]
by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
As we’ve discussed here many times before, gender rating is the harmful and discriminatory insurance practice of charging individuals and employers different premiums based on gender.
For individuals buying coverage directly from insurance companies on the individual market, we found that women were often charged higher premiums than [...]
by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
We are closer to adopting health reform than ever before in history. Now that the Senate passed their health reform legislation, the next step on the road to reform is for Senate and House leaders to work out differences between their two bills, and then each chamber [...]
By Brigette Courtot, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women’s Law Center
For most of their lives, women are charged more than men for health plans in the individual insurance market. This is a consequence of “gender rating,” the common insurance industry practice of using gender to decide how much to charge for health insurance.
A new NWLC report [...]
By Amanda Stone, Volunteer, National Women’s Law Center
“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived rape. Let’s back up a few steps. First, who was asking the question? Second, why was the applicant’s history posed [...]
By Judy Waxman, Vice President of Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center
I don’t deserve health care that meets my needs.
I shouldn’t demand fairness in my health care coverage.
I can’t do anything about it anyway.
That’s what the health insurance profiteers want you to think.
They aren’t thinking about the mother who is struggling to [...]
Written by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate, National Women’s Law Center
Last night, in a “hat-tip” to common-sense and efficacy, the Senate Finance Committee approved an amendment introduced by Chairman Baucus to provide funding for evidence-based comprehensive sex education. The Chairman introduced his amendment as an alternative to an amendment introduced by Senator Hatch, which [...]
Written by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women’s Law Center
Last I heard, getting pregnant takes two.
This morning, in the Senate Finance Committee’s mark-up of the America’s Healthy Future Act, Senator Kyl (R-AZ) introduced an amendment to strip the bill of any requirements that health insurance contain the benefits that people [...]
By Robin Reed, Online Outreach Manager, National Women’s Law Center
Last night, I went to a goodbye party for a friend who’s changing jobs. Amidst the nostalgic recollections and toasts to her future, we got to talking about some of the logistical problems that come with a change like this. Chiefly, health insurance.
Even though my friend [...]
By Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
Besides the US Chamber of Commerce, anyone out there feeling at all bad about the US House Energy & Commerce Committee asking large national health insurers about their finances? Certainly not I, especially after what we learned about the Wall Street bail out and big institutions that [...]
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