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Women Can Access Even More Life-Saving Preventive Care Free Of Charge

Published on Mon Sep 03, 2012

Women can look forward to a healthier life, thanks to with new rules in the health care law requiring coverage of preventive services taking effect from August 1 according to a statement issued by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a July 31 press release.Approximately 47 million women stand to benefit from these new preventive services at no charge. Earlier they were not covered by their health plans for the care they needed to stay healthy and catch potentially serious conditions at an earlier stage and had to depend on copay or were liable for deductibles."President Obama is moving our country forward by giving women control over their health care," Secretary Sebelius said in the press release. "This law puts women and their doctors, not insurance companies or the government, in charge of health care decisions."The eight new prevention-related services announced in the press release are:Well-woman visits.Gestational [...]
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