{"id":1451,"date":"2012-03-20T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2012-03-20T11:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:12:07","slug":"affordable-care-act-provides-20-4-million-women-with-preventive-health-services-at-no-additional-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/affordable-care-act-provides-20-4-million-women-with-preventive-health-services-at-no-additional-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Care Act provides 20.4 million women with preventive health services at no additional cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s health reform law requires that new health insurance plans cover preventive services with no co-pay or deductible.\u00a0In the last 18 months, approximately 20.4 million women with private health insurance have received preventive health services such as mammograms and pap smears at no additional cost because of this provision in the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>Besides improving access to services that help women stay healthy and detect health problems early on, health reform helps women in many other ways. For example, health insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women by charging them higher premiums than they charge men. Insurance companies are banned from imposing a limit on the amount of care they\u2019ll cover over a woman\u2019s lifetime, and are now required to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on care\u2014not overhead.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2012\/03\/20\/numbers-204\">By the Numbers: 20.4 | The White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama\u2019s health reform law requires that new health insurance plans cover preventive services with no co-pay or deductible.\u00a0In the last 18 months, approximately 20.4 million women with private health insurance have received preventive health services such as mammograms and pap smears at no additional cost because of this provision in the Affordable Care Act&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,22],"tags":[125,123,206,950,951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}