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Obviously there’s a lot of controversy around Obamacareand most people agree it needs to be fixed.
While the ACA insured16 million additional Americans, it left many people uninsured and unable to afford insurance.
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This regulation also requires the same of vending machines and “similar retail food establishments.”
They may also be referred to local domestic violence support resources.
Women between the ages of 1824 are the most likely group to encounter this kind of violence.
(These services are designed specifically to protect women.
This means as many as 5 million senior citizens are abused each year.
Another thing the ACA does is require employers to provide break-time for new mothers topump breast milk.
Basically, moms must be allowed to take a break to pump breast milk each time they need to.
Plus, the employer is required to provide a designated private areathat isn’t a bathroomfor pumping.
And under Obamacare, insurance providers were required to cover habilitation in healthcare plans.
(They were also required to cover rehabilitation.)
Obamacare allows women tochoose any ob/gynin their online grid without a doctor’s referral.
Many states already protected a woman’s right to do this before the ACA.
The ACA required insurance companies to cover a bunch of preventivereproductive healthcare serviceswithout a co-pay.
One of these services is a “well-woman visit"also known as your annual check-up at the gynecologist.
At well-woman visits, women can get mammograms, pap smears (which screen forcervical cancer), andcontraceptivecounseling.
SELF’s resources onfinding activist opportunitiesandgetting involved in policy decisionsare great places to start.
Other organizations can help families in need accessaffordable childcare,job training, andmuch-needed foodandhousehold supplies.
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