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"The Associated Press reports on a little-known benefit of the Affordable Care Act for low-income pregnant women:Lower-income women who signed up for a private policy in the new insurance exchanges will have access to additional coverage from their state’s Medicaid program if they get pregnant. Some women could save hundreds of dollars on their share of hospital and doctor bills.
Medicaid already pays for nearly half of U.S. births, but this would create a way for the safety-net program to supplement private insurance for many expectant mothers.
Officials and advocates say the enhanced coverage will be available across the country, whether or not a state expands Medicaid under the health law. However, states have different income cutoffs for eligibility, ranging from near the poverty line to solid middle class.
This adds to an impressive list of benefits for women now included in all insurance policies thanks to Obamacare that I feel the need to list because this law’s benefits are so vast and typically marginalized by maniacs ranting against birth control:"
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"Conservatives like to pretend they’re baffled when people who believe in choice — like Hilary Clinton — celebrate motherhood, even though we’ve devoted our lives to improving care for women and children.
I often point out that the biggest difference between pro-choice and pro-lifers is that pro-choicers is that pro-choicers actually prevent abortions, as abortions are more common and more deadly when they’re illegal. Thanks in part to Obamacare both abortions and teenage pregnancies are at new lows — even though more 18 and 19 year-olds are having sex.
If the right’s definition of being pro-life weren’t so perverse — if it included caring for pregnant mothers and newborns and children denied the care that should be a given in the richest country in the world — conservatives would see Obamacare is the most pro-life piece of legislation in American history."
"The Associated Press reports on a little-known benefit of the Affordable Care Act for low-income pregnant women:Lower-income women who signed up for a private policy in the new insurance exchanges will have access to additional coverage from their state’s Medicaid program if they get pregnant. Some women could save hundreds of dollars on their share of hospital and doctor bills.
Medicaid already pays for nearly half of U.S. births, but this would create a way for the safety-net program to supplement private insurance for many expectant mothers.
Officials and advocates say the enhanced coverage will be available across the country, whether or not a state expands Medicaid under the health law. However, states have different income cutoffs for eligibility, ranging from near the poverty line to solid middle class.
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"Conservatives like to pretend they’re baffled when people who believe in choice — like Hilary Clinton — celebrate motherhood, even though we’ve devoted our lives to improving care for women and children.
I often point out that the biggest difference between pro-choice and pro-lifers is that pro-choicers is that pro-choicers actually prevent abortions, as abortions are more common and more deadly when they’re illegal. Thanks in part to Obamacare both abortions and teenage pregnancies are at new lows — even though more 18 and 19 year-olds are having sex.
If the right’s definition of being pro-life weren’t so perverse — if it included caring for pregnant mothers and newborns and children denied the care that should be a given in the richest country in the world — conservatives would see Obamacare is the most pro-life piece of legislation in American history."