Senior VP @KFF & Director, Women’s Health Policy, Access to health coverage & care. RTs not endorsements.
Sep 12, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Officials in some states point to emergency contraceptives as a reason abortion bans don’t need exceptions for rape or incest. According to @KFF analysis, the reality is more complicated. 1/7 apnews.com/article/aborti…
In fact, there are quite a few reasons people may not be able to access and/or afford EC to prevent pregnancy. 2/7 kff.org/womens-health-…
Mar 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Been taking a closer look at the #paidsickdays and #familyleave provisions of the #familiesfirst Coronavirus Response Act that the House just passed. Some first impressions.
The bill amends the #FMLA AND has a new Act that requires private employers with fewer than 500 workers and all public employers to offer #paidsickleave.
Feb 22, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
OPA posted the final regulations for the Title X family planning program and they look very much like the proposed regulations. kff.org/womens-health-…
They don’t become official until they are published in the Federal Register. hhs.gov/opa/sites/defa…
The final reg blocks family planning providers from participating in the program if they provide or refer for abortion. This would effectively disqualify Planned Parenthood from the program & greatly reduce the existing Title X family planning provider network in many states.
Jan 16, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Ahead of March for Life, during a partial govt shutdown, McConnell filed cloture on S.109 that would ban insurance cvg of abortion in all ACA Marketplace plans & codify the Hyde Amendment, which limits use of federal Medicaid funds for abortion coverage congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
Republican efforts to repeal the ACA in 2017 included a similar ban on abortion coverage in all ACA Marketplace plans – @KaiserFamFound analysis of these bills is here: kff.org/womens-health-…
