There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.
It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
Restricting access to such a basic health care service, which 99% of sexually experienced American women have used and 62% of American women are using right now, is out of touch with public sentiment.
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.
Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.
I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.
The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
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