#WhatMothersNeed This Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day is here. That means that if you’re like many people, you’ve recently spent some time asking yourself what your mother (or the mothers in your life) need.
What Do Mothers Need? Tools to Make the Best Health Care Choices
As Mother’s Day approaches, we’re making it easier for women to manage their families’ health by providing tools and information to help them use their health insurance to access affordable, quality care and to make the best possible health care choices.
What Do Mothers Need? Fair Pay
It’s no surprise these days that women’s wages are essential to their families and our economy. That’s why, as our #WhatMothersNeed week of action continues, we’re talking about the urgent need for fair pay.
What Do Mothers Need? Family Friendly Workplaces
For a country that claims to value families, the United States does little to show it when it comes to the workplace.
What Do Mothers Need? An End to Pregnancy Discrimination
Mother’s Day is this weekend. And at the National Partnership, we have joined with our allies, members of Congress and activists across the country to take a week-long look at what mothers truly need this year – beyond messages of gratitude.
What Do Mothers Need? Quality Maternity Care
As Mother’s Day approaches, we renew our commitment to improving the quality of maternity care so women can enjoy safe, satisfying pregnancies and births, and babies can have a healthy start in life. We ask you to join us.
Increased Transparency in Health Care: Good News for Patients and Families
In good news for patients and families, the federal government recently took two important steps to increase transparency. These actions exemplify a changing health care culture that recognizes the need for openness.
Making History for Women and Families
At the National Partnership, we couldn’t be more inspired to make history on the issues of paramount importance to women and their families.
The Ryan Budget: Bad for Our Health
Budgets reflect priorities. Last week, House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the House Republican budget. If adopted, it would take health insurance away from millions of Americans, turn Medicaid into a block grant, and put seniors’ access to comprehensive Medicare coverage in jeopardy.
Let’s Leave Mad Men-Era Pay Policies in the Past
There is a reason many of us bristle at the thought of what the nation’s workplaces were like for women during the Mad Men era: the almost universal recognition that it was a time when sexism was rampant, when women were routinely devalued, disrespected and blatantly discriminated against.
When You Marginalize Women’s Health, You Sanction Inequality
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases brought by for-profit corporations challenging the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) birth control benefit, which requires that health plans include coverage for contraception – a basic health service that 99 percent of women use at some point in their lives.
Helping Pregnant Women Become Partners in Their Care
The quality of maternity care in our country needs improvement. While transforming the maternity care system will take time, there is progress to report.
