Hey Fuente - thanks for the feedback - the info below is from Seanator Mikulski's website - she may very well be the perfect advocate for women and BIEL that is much needed to get ALLAY and ActiPatch on the OTC shelves. She is all about health, health, health and women's health at the bottom. This lady has an amazing track record - wow
QUOTE“I will never stop fighting for health care you can count on – at any age.“ -- Senator Barbara A. Mikulski
Saving and strengthening Medicare
•Closing the prescription drug donut hole
•Ensuring seniors won’t have to pay more for recommended preventative care
•Incentivizing higher quality value care, not volume care<
•Finding solutions to extend Medicare’s solvency, so it doesn’t go broke in 2017
Ending punitive practices of insurance companies
•Making sure insurance companies can’t deny coverage to anyone because of pre-existing conditions
•Making sure your coverage can’t be canceled because of an unexpected health condition or mistake on your application
•Requiring insurers to publicly disclose and justify outrageous premium increases
•Requiring insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on direct health care services
•Strengthening consumer protections to eliminate lifetime and annual caps
•Requiring preventative care with no co-pay and no deductibles
•Allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plan until age 26
Championing health care quality, prevention and integrative health to save lives and save money
•Using best practices to reduce medical errors
•Encouraging discharge planning to reduce hospital readmissions
•Simplifying administrative procedures and facilitating enrollment into health and human services programs to save billions per year and reduce the hassle factor of health practitioners
•Coordinating care and creating community health teams to save money and reduce chronic conditions
Fighting for universal access to health care
•Expanding Medicaid to an additional 16 million Americans
•Expanding coverage to 32 million Americans who were uninsured
•Establishing health exchanges that will make health insurance more affordable and easier to purchase for small business and individuals
•Providing tax credits to small businesses to make health care more affordable for them
•Providing subsidies to employers who provide health insurance to early retirees not yet eligible for Medicare
A lifetime commitment to women’s health
•Helped create the National Institutes of Health Office of Women’s Health to study women’s needs and health issues
•Created the Mammogram Quality Standards Act and continues to fight for strong standards and yearly facility inspections
•Ending gender discrimination by insurance companies, so being a woman is not considered a pre-existing condition
•Requiring screening and preventative care -- including annual mammograms for women over 40 -- for no co-pay and no-deductible
•Fighting to make maternity services part of essential benefits package
•Allowing women to see their OB/GYN without a referral
