Thomas: Affordable Care Act provides critically important health services for American women
Brenda “Bré” Thomas
Brenda “Bré” Thomas is CEO of the Arizona Family Health Partnership a Title X-funded 501(c)3 nonprofit agency, providing reproductive health care and education to all women, men and teens in Arizona through a network of health clinics across the state. For more information, visit www.arizonafamilyhealth.org.
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chatmandu002 posted at 8:43 am on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
Bre,
Yes indeed the new ACA will provide a lot of services to all members of a family including women with a huge tax increase that grows and grows. After all of the "other people's" money runs out what are we going to do?
Cerulean posted at 12:09 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
chatmandu, Health care costs were on an unsustainable projection long before President Obama was elected to work on a solution. Costs were doubling, tripling and becoming more and more unaffordable years before President Obama came to work.
I believe there is more that must be done to reduce cost, however our current representatives in the House are least interested in that task.
Good column Bre', Thank you
Leon Ceniceros posted at 1:00 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
Thank you for your column on Marxist-Leninist Socialism but when did "Tax-Payer supported Health Care" become protected by the United States Bill of Rights ???
Why is "women's health care" more important than "men's health care" ???
I don't see anyone stepping up to the plate and helping me with my "dental needs".
I don't see "mamagrams and abortions" listed anywhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or even the Declaration of Independence.
Who says that "women's needs" are higher on the peeking order than "men's needs" ???
How about some of those Billions and Billions of Tax-Payer dollars and donations for ........."MALE PROSTATE CANCER" ????
Enough with the .......SEXISM...!!!!
Leon Ceniceros posted at 1:13 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
P.S...........Male workers earn more that .....$162.00....per week than women.
So........."Men"....should really be getting more ..."tax-payer" funded Health Benefits than "Women".....not the other way around.
wdgnas posted at 6:39 am on Sun, Aug 12, 2012.
leon: i don't see "viagra" listed anywhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights or even the Declaration of Independence.
VofReason posted at 12:47 pm on Mon, Aug 13, 2012.
I don't think anyone agrues that preventative care is not a good thing. Seriously though, if this was such a great idea, why did it have to be shoved down everyones throat. The only way it passed is by back room deals that let certain states, unions etc etc off the hook of the additional costs. Most "good" ideas rest on the fact that they truly are a good idea. Finally, nothing is reducing any cost here, it just is changing who is paying for it and increasing it with a bunch of Federal Bureaucracy.
fae4now posted at 10:54 pm on Fri, Aug 17, 2012.
Chatmandu,
One of the many benefits of the ACA is that it allows parents to keep their offspring on their insurance policies up to the age of 26. Especially good for students. That means that the parents, in other words, the family, is now able to take personal responsibility for their health care coverage. Of course this costs THEM, not you, more money.
Without this expanded coverage these young people would have few options - Medicaid perhaps or ER visits that they can not pay for. Without this provision in the ACA "other people's money' would have to pay for the health care needs of these young people who number in the millions.
So you see, the ACA in this way preserves 'other people's money' and helps prevent it from running out. And isn't that what you want?
Bet they never mention that on Fox News!
fae4now posted at 10:58 pm on Fri, Aug 17, 2012.
VofR,
Who said the ACA had to be shoved down everyone's throat?
Oh, that's right, Fox News and the Rushies said so.
In fact, intelligent people throughout the nation have been fighting for some form of universal health care coverage for around four decades now.......in case you missed it.