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Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care, but would still charge us up to 50 percent more than men - for a worse plan.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.

Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they live, and the support systems they can afford to pay for.

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, today more than 45 million are without any health coverage.