Economic Justice Archives | Page 184 of 302 | National Partnership for Women & Families

Expanding Value-Based Payment to Medicare Part B Prescription Medications Offers Promise to Enhance Care for Patients, Consumer Health Leader Says

“Our country needs to do all it can to improve the quality and value of health care at the same time we develop ways to lower costs and make care more affordable. The proposal from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced earlier this month,...

Improve Information on Women’s Preventive, Reproductive Health Care in the ACA’s Summary of Benefits and Coverage, Women’s Health Group Urges

Noting that the existing Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) template is incomplete in critical ways, the National Partnership for Women & Families filed comments with the Office of Management and Budget today offering recommendations to improve it. Problems...

Adverse Ruling in Zubik v. Burwell Would Endanger Access to Contraceptive Coverage for Countless Women

“Women’s ability to access birth control is critical to their health, equality and economic security. That is why it is so important that every woman has coverage for birth control, no matter where she works or goes to school. The seven consolidated cases...

Women Are Watching

This year, women have been at the forefront of efforts to stop Congress from repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation. Women came to town hall meetings and legislators’ offices around the...

Stand Up for Workers and Unions This Labor Day

Cross-posted from Medium.Labor Day has historically been a time to celebrate and recognize the achievements and contributions of working people. But this Labor Day is markedly different. Because as the Trump administration continues its despicable attacks on the...

Women Continue to Resist and to Insist on Equality for All

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post. “Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.” The late activist and longtime women’s movement leader Bella Abzug made that prediction some two decades ago. And on...

Recommendations to Increase Access to Doula Support

RECOMMENDATIONS | There is a strong evidence base to support including doula services in the standard package of essential maternity care services available to all pregnant, birthing, and parenting women and people. Culturally congruent doulas appear to offer...

Executive Summary: Improving Maternity Care Through Doula Support

Executive Summary | Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Doula Support outlines the evidence that supports the unique value of doula support across different communities, the safety and effectiveness of doula support in improving maternal and infant outcomes, the...

Spotlight on Success: Tewa Women United

CASE STUDY | Tewa Women United (TWU) is a multicultural and multiracial, Indigenous/Tewa-women-created and -led organization located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of northern New Mexico. TWU embodies courageous spaces that center Indigenous women and girls to...

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