{"id":735,"date":"2012-03-28T20:15:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2012-07-25T20:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T20:45:43","slug":"video-nancy-pelosi-and-women-fight-for-affordable-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"Video: Nancy Pelosi and Women Fight for Affordable Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"watch-description-clip\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s History Month Rally <\/strong><strong>Celebrating the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Anniversary of the <\/strong><strong>Affordable Care Act\u00a0<\/strong><strong>with Honored Guest <\/strong><strong>Leader Nancy Pelosi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"eow-description\">House\u00a0Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and women&#8217;s health leaders\u00a0celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the Affordable Care Act at\u00a0a rally\u00a0at the\u00a0San Francisco Women&#8217;s Building\u00a0on March 23.\u00a0 See a short clip here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHc2jeh3-R4\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?<wbr>v=MHc2jeh3-R4<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:\u00a0 Amiee Allison, SF Dept. on the Status of Women; Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD, Co-Director, EQUAL Health Network; Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Founder, Center for Youth Wellness,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Janet Clyde, Owner, Vesuvio &amp; past San Francisco Small Business Commission member; Amanda Selich, Student, City College of San Francisco <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Affordable Care Act benefits available NOW:<\/span><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Preventive care without co-pays or deductibles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 End of lifetime limits on insurance coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Covers children with pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Young adults under age 26 remain on parents\u2019 health insurance policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rebate from Medicare for prescription drugs\u2019 \u201cdoughnut hole\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tax break for small business owners buying health insurance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEGINNING AUGUST 2012<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coverage for women&#8217;s preventive care services without co-pays or deductibles for:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contraception and well-woman visits.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screening\u00a0 counseling for HIV, domestic violence, sexually-transmitted infections &amp;\u00a0 breastfeeding.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEGINNING 2014<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coverage for over 8 million uninsured women through expanded Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11 million women with family income to $88,000\/yr eligible for substantial health insurance subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Women can&#8217;t be turned away for pre-existing conditions or charged more because they are women.<\/p>\n<p>Her editorial on the topic appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle last Friday. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/03\/23\/EDCB1NOSLR.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Event Sponsors: EQUAL Health Network, Access\/Raising Women&#8217;s Voices, Alliance for Retired Americans, Breast Cancer Action, CA Family Health Council, CA Pan Ethnic Health Network, CPHA-N, CA Women&#8217;s Agenda, Children Now, City College of SF\/Women&#8217;s Studies, Democratic Women&#8217;s Forum, Glide Health Services, Health Access, Healthy SF, Hospital Council of Northern &amp; Central CA, Mission Neighborhood Health Center, MomsRising, National Physicians Alliance, National Women&#8217;s Law Center, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, Planning for Elders, Planned Parenthood Shasta Pacific, SF Breastfeeding Promotion Coalition, SF Community Clinic Consortium, SF Democratic Women in Action, SF Dept. of Public Health, SF Dept. on the Status of Women, SF Health Plan, SF NOW, SF Older Women&#8217;s League, SF Small Business Commission, SF Women&#8217;s Political Committee, Senior Action Network, Silver Ribbon Campaign to Trust Women, Women&#8217;s Intercultural Network, U.S. Positive Women&#8217;s Network\/WORLD, Women&#8217;s Building of SF\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Contact: ershaffer@equalhealth.info<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s History Month Rally Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act\u00a0with Honored Guest Leader Nancy Pelosi House\u00a0Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and women&#8217;s health leaders\u00a0celebrated the 2nd anniversary of the Affordable Care Act at\u00a0a rally\u00a0at the\u00a0San Francisco Women&#8217;s Building\u00a0on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/?p=735\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursilverribbon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}