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Women’s Health Leader Praises Lawmakers for Reintroducing Legislation to Give More Babies a Healthy Start

“The Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act of 2015 is important legislation that can significantly improve the quality of maternity care in this country and give more babies the healthy start they need and deserve. We commend Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)...

Room for Improvement: New Study Identifies How Federal, State Health Insurance Marketplace Websites Can Better Help Consumers Make Informed Choices about Their Health Plans

As the second open enrollment period nears completion, a new study commissioned by the National Partnership for Women & Families finds that marketplace websites could be doing significantly more to help consumers make informed choices about their health plans. While...

Leading Consumer Groups Urge Administration to Adopt Approaches to Fundamentally Transform How Health Care is Delivered in Next Phase of Medicare Shared Savings Program

Leading consumer groups, led by the Campaign for Better Care (CBC), today filed comments urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to prioritize ensuring that accountable care organizations (ACOs) participating in the next cycle of the Medicare...

U.S. Senator Patty Murray Rallies Paid Sick Days Advocates

Paid sick days advocates from across the country got a boost from U.S. Senator Patty Murray today. Murray is the lead Senate sponsor of the Healthy Families Act, and she championed the recent budget amendment that garnered bipartisan support for paid sick days. Today,...

The White House Recognizes Paid Sick Days Champions

Closing out a week of attention to families’ economic security, the Obama administration paid special tribute yesterday to state and local “champions of change” who are making a real difference in communities and workplaces across the country. Among...

Five Reasons You Should Care About the U.S. Senate’s Paid Sick Days Vote

In a flurry of budget amendment votes in the U.S. Senate last week – unofficially referred to as “vote-a-rama” – those of us who advocate for paid sick days and other family friendly workplace policies witnessed an encouraging and unprecedented...

2019 Title X Fact Sheet

Family planning services are a necessary component of health care for women and families. Access to preventive and reproductive health care allows people to choose if and when to have children and create the stability to have the job, family and future they want.

Meeting the Promise of Paid Leave: A Research Brief

ISSUE BRIEF | Paid family and medical leave has become more prominent in state and national legislative debates. But the details must be right in order to make paid leave work for the people who need it most.

National Partnership Comments on Health Care Rights Law (Section 1557)

We believe the proposed rule undermines the very intent of Section 1557 and strongly urge HHS to rescind the proposed rule in its entirety.

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