Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 45.1 million women—including 20.4 million with private health insurance and 24.7 million women with Medicare—can receive recommended preventive services with no cost-sharing, new data released today by the Department of Health and Human Services shows.
More than one million young adult women have gained health insurance coverage because of the law and 13 million more women will gain coverage by 2016. Without the health care law, these women would remain uninsured, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claims.
"From increased health coverage to free preventive services and lower prescription drug costs, our mothers, grandmothers, daughters, friends and neighbors are already benefiting from this law and will continue to in the months and years to come," Sebelius said in a news brief.
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