Ladies? Check your zip code

If the new president and his minions succeed in repealing Obamacare to replace it with…uh…we’ll they’ll have to get back to us on that, but: If they take away contraceptive coverage, they’re going to be angering more than a few of their constituents. From Kaiser Family Foundation: For the first time, the ACA set federal preventive …

What would it mean to put children first?

Bruce Lesley, of @First_Focus and @Campaign4Kids, explores that here. The proposed repeal of Obamacare (to be replaced, so far, by….uh…do you hear crickets? How did crickets get on this blog?) could have devastating effects on children and young people, according to this Georgetown University study. Couple that with information from this Economic Policy Institute study which looks at the …

How can someone with such dreamy eyes be such a turd?

House Speaker Paul Ryan (who said once he was reformed and would not treat people who are poor with a newfound respect) has announced new legislation that will repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and defund Planned Parenthood, to boot. Here’s more on the topic. And what would happen if Planned Parenthood is defunded? From …

Why did Obamacare enrollees vote for Trump?

See this article at Vox. From Sarah Kliff: Obamacare’s success in Whitley County and across Kentucky hasn’t translated into political support for the law. In fact, 82 percent of Whitley voters supported Donald Trump in the presidential election, even though he promised to repeal it.  

What happens if there’s a partial repeal on Obamacare?

From the Urban Institute: The number of uninsured people would rise from 28.9 million to 58.7 million in 2019, an increase of 29.8 million people (103 percent). The share of non-elderly people without insurance would increase from 11 percent to 21 percent, a higher rate of uninsurance than before the ACA because of the disruption …

Ladies? Guess who bears the brunt of Trump’s version of Obamacare?

You do. I wrote this for CT Health Investigative team.

Supreme Court decides not to decide on birth control

On Monday, the Supreme Court sent back to the lower courts seven cases that that august body had consolidated into one big ol’ hairy birth control case. This says the court punted on the case, brought by various religious groups who fear the birth control portion of the American Care Act (Obamacare) violates their religious freedom. …

SCOTUS dudes may not get it.

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about a portion of Obamacare’s birth control mandate. (From what I can tell, the question revolved around whether the Little Sisters of the Poor are violating their religious beliefs by not providing coverage for contraceptives, or something like that). It became obvious from their questions that some of the black-robed dudes just didn’t get …

So am I covered?

The Kaiser Family Foundation has a handy Preventive Services Tracker here, that lets you see what is covered under the Affordable Care Act, and what’s not. And thanks, Leftover, for the link.

Women see substantial decrease in out-of-pocket expenses. Thanks, Obama!

Can’t figure out the paywall, so you’ll have to be happy with this abstract. Here’s part of it: The average percentages of out-of-pocket spending for oral contraceptive pill prescriptions and intrauterine device insertions by women using those methods both dropped by 20 percentage points after implementation of the ACA mandate. We estimated average out-of-pocket savings …