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Health Insurance 101: How to Choose Health Insurance When You’re Living with Obesity

If you’re living with obesity, these are the 6 questions you need to ask when choosing health insurance

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Dear Employer: How to Ask for Obesity Care Insurance Coverage

Use our template letter to ask your employer for obesity care coverage

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Estimado empleador: Cómo solicitar cobertura de atención para la obesidad

Usa nuestra plantilla para escribir una carta en la cual pides a tu empleador cobertura de atención para la obesidad

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Health Insurance 101: Understanding Health Insurance Terms

Understanding health insurance terms can help you get the most from your health plan

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Seguros médicos 101: Glosario de seguros médicos

Comprender el significado de términos comunes de seguros médicos puede ser útil para aprovechar lo más posible de tu plan de salud

The Covid-19 Public Health Emergency Is Ending Soon

The Covid-19 Public Health Emergency Is Ending Soon

The federal state of emergency for Covid end date is May 11, 2023. What will this mean for you and your healthcare?

Your Dermatologist and You … and Your Health Plan?

Your Dermatologist and You … and Your Health Plan?

How to get skin treatments covered by health insurance

Choosing a Health Insurance Plan During Open Enrollment

Choosing a Health Insurance Plan During Open Enrollment

Watch this video with two health insurance experts to learn how to successfully navigate open enrollment and find out what your options are so you can a select an affordable and effective health insurance plan

How to Choose Health Insurance When You Have Fibroids

Health Insurance 101: How to Choose Health Insurance When You Have Fibroids

If you have uterine fibroids, these are the 9 questions you need to ask when choosing health insurance

How to Choose Health Insurance When You Have Endometriosis

Health Insurance 101: How to Choose Health Insurance When You Have Endometriosis

If you have endometriosis, these are the 9 questions you need to ask when choosing health insurance

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Health Insurance 101 for Women: What You’re Entitled to as a Woman

What you need to know to get the health insurance benefits you deserve

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Survey Says: Insurance Providers May Put Up Barriers to Care

A 2021 survey conducted by HealthyWomen found techniques used by insurance companies to manage care don’t always benefit the patient

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What Is Step Therapy?

Sometimes insurance companies want you to try certain medications before others. Watch this video to learn more about step therapy and getting the treatment you need for your atopic dermatitis.

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Healthcare Costs Are More Than a Headache

A new survey shows just how often costs affect women’s healthcare decisions

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I Was Bleeding to Death on the Bathroom Floor — While the Medics Insisted I Couldn’t Afford the Ambulance Ride

I was having a medical emergency but racism, classism and sexism got in the way of my care

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What’s Sexual Orientation Got to Do With It? LGBTQ People Face Discrimination in Healthcare

It's unbelievable that LGBTQ discrimination in healthcare is still a thing

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It’s Illegal — but My Insurance Company Refused to Cover My Birth Control

The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover birth control — but somehow my birth control of choice still isn’t covered

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HIV Preventive Care Is Supposed to Be Free in the US. So, Why Are Some Patients Still Paying?

Even as medication costs have decreased, lab tests and other services are still being billed. Many patients are unaware they don’t have to pay.

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A Conversation with Janet McUlsky About Patient Advocacy

It’s no surprise that the 2022 winner of HealthyWomen’s Pinnacle Award says we all do better when we support each other. Find out what else she had to say.

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Survey Says: How Women View Health Care and Access to Health Information

Our new survey found praise for podcasts and taking an active role in health care

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The ACA Guarantees Full Contraceptive Coverage. Why Are Women Getting Denied?

Birth control is a right, but insurance companies are defying the law. They must be held accountable.