5 Ways The Senate Health Care Bill Is Cruel To Women

Americans finally got their first look at Senate Republicans’ proposed health care overhaul this week, a dense 142-page document that HuffPost’s Jeffrey Young and Jonathan Cohn described as a “massive rollback of the federal commitment to promote health care access.” Reproductive rights advocacy groups and non-partisan health organizations that serve women wasted no time in condemning the bill, issuing a flurry of statements on Thursday calling it an “assault on women’s health” (The Center For Reproductive Rights) “reckless” (The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) and warning that it is “worse than the bill passed by the House” (the American Psychological Association).  With just days before it could head to the Senate floor for a vote, experts and analysts are are furiously diving into the details, attempting to determine what this bill means for the future of health care in this country. But what’s already very clear that women will pay a steep price if it passes. Here are just a few of the ways in which the GOP Senate health care bill targets women: 1. It slashes Medicaid.  More than 25 million women are covered by Medicaid, and the steep cuts to that essential program will hit them hard. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate found that 14 million fewer people would get Medicaid over the next decade based on the House bill and the outcome unde...
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