The National Partnership for Women & Families submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the proposed rule for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
Consumer Partnership for eHealth Comments on MACRA Proposed Rule (June 2016)
The EACH Woman Act (S. 758/H.R. 1692): Ensuring Equal Access to Abortion Coverage for Every Woman
The ability to make personal health care decisions should not depend on how much money a woman makes or where she gets her health insurance. This groundbreaking legislation would put an end to politicians denying women insurance coverage for medical care they need.
Consumer Partnership for eHealth Comments on Request for Information on Assessing Interoperability for MACRA (June 2016)
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth comments on ONC's Request for Information regarding Assessing Interoperability for MACRA, or the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act.
Delivering High-Quality, High-Value Care to Childbearing Women and Babies: Policymakers Can Make a Difference
This is fact sheet for policymakers is based on the Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report.
Supporting Informed Decision-Making in the Health Insurance Marketplace: A Progress Report for 2016
This report looks at the tools that were available during the third open enrollment period to consumers who were window shopping on HealthCare.gov, which is used in 38 states, and on the 13 state-based marketplace websites. It was conducted in January and supplemented...
Camino hacia un parto saludable: Como ayudar a tus hormonas a realizar su maravilloso trabajo
This is the Spanish language version of Pathway to a Healthy Birth: How to Help Your Hormones Do Their Wonderful Work
Listening to Mothers II: Weighting (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This document summarizes how data were weighted by key demographic variables to more accurately reflect the...
Listening to Mothers II: Methodology (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This is the survey methodology.
Listening to Mothers II: Executive Summary (2006)
This survey was carried out in January-February 2006 in partnership with Lamaze International. It surveyed women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005. This is the Executive Summary.
Listening to Mothers: Report of the First National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences (2002) Executive Summary
Listening to Mothers I was the first opportunity for women in the U.S. to describe at the national level their maternity experiences and assessment of those experiences. This is the Executive Summary.
Listening to Mothers: Report of the First National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences (2002)
Listening to Mothers I was the first opportunity for women in the U.S. to describe at the national level their maternity experiences and assessment of those experiences. The results have given health professionals, policy makers and mothers themselves a new level of...
Listening to Mothers II: New Mothers Speak Out (2008)
Report of National Surveys of Women’s Childbearing Experiences Conducted October – December 2012 and January – April 2013
Cross Cutting Consumer Criteria for Patient-Centered Medical Homes
A truly patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is grounded in comprehensive and well-coordinated primary care that treats the whole person and is consistent with each patient’s unique needs and preferences.
Cesarean Birth Trends 1989-2015
The preliminary national cesarean rate for 2014 is 32.2 percent of all births. This is a slight drop from the national peak of 32.9 percent in 2009.
Testimony of Mark Savage, House Oversight Commitee (March 2016)
Hearing on Opportunities and Challenges in Advancing Health Information Technology, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Information Technology and Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules
Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Women’s Health (First Edition)
Across the country, politicians are playing doctor — pushing for laws that intrude into exam rooms and conflict with professional and ethical standards of medical care. This report summarizes these "bad medicines" laws through June 1, 2014.
Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole (Hellerstedt) Amicus Brief (January 2016)
Brief of experts in health policy as amici curiae in support of petitioners (No. 15-274).
Comments on 1557 Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities (Nov. 2015)
The National Partnership's comments on the Section 1557 Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities proposed rule.
Politics in the Exam Room: A Growing Threat
Across the country, politicians are playing doctor – pushing for laws that intrude into exam rooms and conflict with professional and ethical standards of medical care. But this is no game. The laws they are passing put politicians’ words into the mouths of health...
