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Health Care

“Fighting for Health Care you can count on at any age”. Senator Barbara Mikulski

FOUGHT FOR HEALTH CARE THAT

  • Saves and strengthens Medicare.
  • Help small businesses.
  • Ends punitive practices of insurance companies.
  • Emphasizes quality and prevention to save lives and money.
  • Provides universal access.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OF HEALTH CARE REFORM

  • No discrimination against children with pre existing conditions.
  • Young adults can stay on parents insurance up to age 26.
  • Closing the coverage gap for Medicare Part D Drug Benefit.
  • Small Business tax credits.
  • Bans insurance companies from dropping people when they get sick.
  • Bans insurance companies from lifetime limits on coverage.

HOW HEALTH CARE REFORM HELPS WOMEN

  • Guarantee women access to preventative care amd screenings with no copays or deductibles- including mammograms.
  • End gender rating so women are not charged more than men: Women are not charged up to 60% more than men for same insurance- simply for being a woman.
  • End discrimination based on pre-existing conditions: In 8 states, domestic violence was considered a pre-existing condition.

WORKING TO FIND CURES AND BREAKTHROUGHS

  • Doubled funding for NIH.
  • Worked to increase breast cancer research by 700% since 1990.
  • Created Office of Women’s Health at NIH and FDA
  • Introduced Alzheimer’s Breakthrough Act to double funding for research and treatment.

IMPROVING HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND ACCESS

  • Wrote original law that ensures low-income women can get breast and cervical cancer screening.
  • Introduced Mammography Quality Standards Act- to ensure that doctors and facilities provide reliable mammograms.
  • Introduced Uterine Fibroid Research and Education Act- to double funding for research and treatment of fibroids, which particularly affect African American women.

STRENGHTENING MARYLAND’S HEALTH CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES

  • Secured funding for Maryland’s great helath institution- including University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Kennedy Kreiger, Prince Georges Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital. Sinai Hospital and Mercy Hospital.

STRENGHTENING HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE

  • Introduced Nurse Reinvestment Act to expand and provide training for nurse education and training.
  • Support for nursing programs at Maryland’s Community Colleges.
  • Increase student aid for medical students going into primary care medicine.