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Policy Briefing: Women and Health Care Reform

November 28, 2012
Anna Benyo, Senior Health Policy Analyst
National Women’s Law Center
Anna Benyo NWLC Presentation NM Policy Breifing 2012

And a local panel of experts:
Micaela Cadena, Young Women United
Pamelya Herndon, J.D., Southwest Women’s Law Center
Nandini Pillai Kuehn, Ph.D., MHA, Health Services Consulting
Ellen Pinnes, J.D., Health Policy Consultant
Roxane Spruce Bly, Bernalillo County Off-Reservation Native American Health Commission

Event sponsored by:
Gender Impacts Policy, a project of the Center of Southwest Culture
RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM
State of Women’s Health NM: A Partnership with National Women’s Law Center
UNM Women’s Resource Center
UNM Women Studies

Policy briefing planner and moderator:
Giovanna Rossi, Collective Action Strategies, LLC

Additional materials:
Medicaid Expansion Infographic

WomenACABingaman

Report-BBER-Economic and Fiscal Impacts of the Proposed Medicaid Expansion in New Mexico-2012-10-31

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Albuquerque Journal Letter to the Editor

Printed in Talk of the Town October 11, 2011

Finally, Health Care That Works For All

THE NEW health care law is already having a positive effect on health care costs in New Mexico. Part of why premium increases are slowing is because of the protections the law affords.

The health law provides states with funding to help us better evaluate huge spikes in insurance premiums. These dollars provide states with the capacity to bring greater transparency to the insurance market by reviewing rate increases, which ultimately helps to drive down premiums and hold insurance companies accountable.

Ever-rising premiums have hampered women’s ability to afford health insurance. Not only does this new law help to reduce insurance premiums, but it protects women from discriminatory health insurance practices, and makes coverage more secure by ensuring that working families cannot be denied care due to a pre-existing condition.

The law also provides basic preventative health care and women’s health services with no-copy, which reduces the amount of out-of-pocket costs women would have had to spend on needed care. The law not only helps women and families in New Mexico, but it makes good economic sense.

According to the nonpartisan congressional budget office, the health care law will reduce the federal deficit by $143 billion in the first 10 years and by more than $1 trillion in the second 10 years.

GIOVANNA ROSSI PRESSLEY

Albuquerque

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Policy Briefing on Women and Health Care Reform

November 2, 2011 9:00-11:30am
Albuquerque Crowne Plaza Hotel
(formerly Albuquerque Hilton)
1901 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM
RSVP here.

Policy Briefing with National Women’s Law Center VP for Health, Judy Waxman, J.D.
Judy Waxman is the Vice President of Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center. She pioneers advocacy, policy and educational strategies to promote the quality and availability of health care, including reproductive choice, for American women. Prior to joining the National Women’s Law Center, Ms. Waxman served as Deputy Executive Director at Families USA for over a decade. She holds a law degree from American University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami, in Florida.
A panel of experts will follow:
Joan LaMunyon Sanford, NM Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and Raising Women’s Voices
Justina Trott, Women’s Health Services and RWJ CHP Women’s Health Policy Unit
Barbara K.Webber, Health Action New Mexico
Jane Wishner, Southwest Women’s Law Center

This event is FREE but RSVP is required.

Event sponsored by:
RWJF CHP at UNM Women’s Health Policy Unit
Gender Impacts Policy, a project of the Center of Southwest Culture
State of Women: A partnership between National Women’s Law Center and Gender Impacts Policy

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Women’s Health Today – January 2011 Podcast

Missed the show on January 21st? Get a podcast here.

My guests included Senator Dede Feldman, democrat from Albuquerque, Senator Sue Wilson Beffort, republican from Albuquerque, sex and gender health policy expert and Women’s Health Services research director, Dr. Justina Trott, and Lisa Codispoti, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center.
On the program, we discussed health care reform and what impacts women the most. We discussed the creation of a health coverage marketplace, various proposals during the NM legislative session, and attempts to repeal health care reform or pieces of it. All of this, through a sex and gender lens. Listen now.

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Promo Highlights Health Topics for New Show Jan. 21st

Listen to my 30 second promo for the first Women’s Health Today radio show on January 21, 2011 at 8am on 89.9fm.
WHT Promo
My guests will include Senator Dede Feldman, democrat from Albuquerque, Senator Sue Wilson Beffort, republican from Albuquerque, sex and gender health policy expert and Women’s Health Services research director, Dr. Justina Trott, and Lisa Codispoti, senior counsel at the National Women’s Law Center.
On the program, we’ll discuss health care reform and what impacts women the most. We’ll discuss the creation of a health coverage marketplace, various proposals during the NM legislative session, and attempts to repeal health care reform or pieces of it. All of this, through a sex and gender lens.