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The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act: Why It Is Important For Women’S Health, Mary Fanning
The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act: Why It Is Important For Women’S Health, Mary Fanning
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) on March 23, 2010 ending the long history of disparity in access to health care services between insured and uninsured persons. Disparity between women and men in obtaining health insurance coverage is also corrected in the act. Women’s organizations that have focused attention on women’s distinctive health needs over the past century and a half laid the foundation for provisions in the legislation that address women’s health. This article addresses health insurance coverage, its impact on health, the particular challenges women have confronted in seeking coverage, …
Brush, Lisa D.: Poverty, Battered Women, And Work In U.S. Public Policy., Mildred Bates
Brush, Lisa D.: Poverty, Battered Women, And Work In U.S. Public Policy., Mildred Bates
Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought
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