| The Maryland Women's Coalition for Health Care Reform is the Maryland Regional Coordinator for the national campaign Raising Women's Voices for the Health Care We Need. We will help to bring the campaign message and materials to the people
and particularly the women
of Maryland to raise awareness of the urgent need for health care refom. |
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| The RWV campaign supports quality, affordable health care for all - and is working to raise women's voices for the health care we need. The goal is to engage a broad array of women's health and reproductive justice advocates in local, state and national health reform discussions. The
RWV campaign wants
to ensure that women's concerns will be addressed and the health care we get will truly be health care for all. |
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Women have much at stake in the debates over health care. The U.S. health care system has consistently failed to provide needed care for many women. It has also created tremendous challenges for the women who coordinate health care for their families, as well as for the many women who comprise the majority of health care workers in the U.S. |
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| Raising Women's Voices and their community partners have talked with women about their experiences with the health care system and, based on those experiences, what changes they would like to see. Their thoughtful answers have informed the principles of
the RWV campaign's
for health care |
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| The Raising Womens Voices website has excellent materials that help explain the campaign and various resources such as fact sheets, presentations, articles and reports. See below for some of the materials and |
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| New Kaiser Family Foundation study examines the current spending on health care for the uninsured
and projects additional medical spending if the population had health insurance coverage. Comments by Raising Women's Voices. |
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