Is Health Care Reform Good for Women Entrepreneurs?

Health Policy Associate at the National Women’s Law Center(NWLC), Julia Kaye writes in Womenstake.org (the NWLC blog)that she believes the Health Care Reform Bill will give entrepreneurial women more freedom to start their own small business—without fear of trying to find insurance on their own. In fact, members of Women’s Initiative’s Graduate Leadership Council named access to affordable health care as one of the scariest things about leaving a dead end job to start a business.

While women’s rights organizations such as the NWLC celebrate the passing of the Health Care Reform Bill for prohibiting insurance companies from charging women higher premiums than men but they also warn that there is still work to be done to make health care accessible to all women and families. The NWLR urges all advocates of women’s health to tell your senators to vote no to any amendments on the improvement bill and pass the last part of health care reform.