Health Care Stakeholder Discussion: Women

Director of the White House Office on Health Reform Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement Tina Tchen and Director of Domestic Policy Melody Barnes hold a stakeholder discussion with womens groups about health care reform. June 5, 2009 (Public Domain)

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[neephius]

I absolutely think the government must look after all the peoples health. This is a bit sexist pushing only the womans point of veiw.

[ANewLeaaseOnLife]

In the current political climate, many states are sidestepping with full intention of circumventing the intent of Roe V. Wade, which allows women the right to privacy in abortion decisions from 24 to 26 weeks of gestation. I urge everyone to write to their senators, their representatives, and the President and demand the government restore a woman's right to privacy, and the right to say no to governmentally mandated invasive procedures. They are illegal, and they violate the Constitution.

[DoubleFixed]

Obama Cons Cripples

Obama needs a cattle prod and shock collar to enforce civil rights laws. His adoption of Rosemary’s HMO baby, Kaiser Permanente, rations medical care to disabled patients. I was crippled by paralytic polio at age 6. Kaiser’s ADA Compliance Program Manager refused to disclose service dog policies. Obama’s Disability Director, Henry Claypool, ignores complaints.

Jacquelyn Finney MPA

HMO Hardball

[imakez4u]

The high cost of health care is because insurance companies pay huge costs for simple medical items like $600 for a simple saline iv bag and $300 for a 30 min Oxygen cylinder with nasal cannula.

Additionally the day after pill for women to abort the day after unprotected sex was originally going to be $ 10 dollars but congress gave to rights to just one company to make it .....and that company now sells the day after pill for 1500 per pill....

[24Wynn]

The majority of women are the main caretakers of their elder parent's, husbands, kid's and husband's parent's. Who are there for them when they get sick and are in need of medical attention? I know for a fact that if you are a woman, you don't get the same type of health care that men do and it's because a lot of doctors think that women's symptoms are due to depression when she actually has an underlying illness that is causing the depression. So it makes sense when they say we need specialists

[24Wynn]

For the other person that said that all women should stay in the kitchen need to learn that the reason many women got out was because they had to. Back in the day, before women could vote, they were viewed as possession to their husbands. Their husbands could beat them to death or throw them out on the streets and take the kid's from them. Nowadays, women who are smart enough to leave an abusive relationship have the means to do so if she wants. Why would you deprive somebody of that if?

[24Wynn]

Also, we need Planned Parenthood not only for our contraceptive needs but also to get tested for cervical cancers, breast cancers and for high blood pressure. There are many things that they provide for and it's not just for abortions. For the idiot that said that they don't want their tax dollars used for abortion, it isn't. It's usually used for formula, diapers, or whatever the mother needs to raise a healthy baby. Women who usually have an abortion, usually pay for that themselves.

[24Wynn]

Women are not the only ones that can use WIC and CHIP. If you are father who is raising your kid's, you also qualify for those programs. Women are not trying to "get" anything extra. There are many companies who don't pay for maternal care or preventive care to mother's to be so if a woman gets pregnant, they need the prenatal care so that the baby comes out healthy. Other health issues like Ovarian cancer is not detectable until it's too late and we need to have these early diagnostic tools.

[24Wynn]

For those of you who think that this forum is sexist for peoples health obviously failed to see that this meeting is called Health Care Stakeholder: Women. This is specifically to address women's health care because the main caregivers for the family, kid's, husbands, elder parent's, and veteran's are women and when they have this extra responsibility, it usually affects their paycheck as they are the ones who have to leave their jobs, go work part-time and not get paid benefits.