The Risk of Remaining Silent: Addressing the Current Threats to Women’s Health

Summary

Published Date: November 01, 2017

​The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided a major impetus to improving the health of women throughout the United States, through both its expanded coverage to those previously uninsured, and its provisions that specifically ensure high-quality care and coverage for women's health, including preventive services, reproductive health, and chronic disease care. However, many of these benefits and the reimbursements for services to care for women's health, as well as grant funding not specific to the ACA, are at risk of losing federal support. Increased awareness and advocacy by the public and providers will be required to preserve these important benefits and programs.