Healthcare Influence

Women’s healthcare needs are different then men, there is no doubt about that. But they share the same need for affordable, accessible, high-quality healthcare. Republicans have led the charge in Texas to not only improve the quality of women’s health but provide comprehensive care for women and their families.
- #1 - Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women and is more deadly than all forms of cancer, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year. That’s approximately one woman every minute 1
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Leading Causes of Death in Females United States, 2010 2
- Heart Disease – 23.5%
- Cancer – 22.1%
- Stroke – 6.2%
- Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among women in Texas. Cervical cancer ranks seventh of the leading cancers diagnosed among Texas women. 3
- 313,095 – women have received breast or cervical cancer screening from Texas’ Breast and Cervical Cancer Services (BCCS) 4
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$240.1 million dollars - Texas legislature committed over the 2014-2015 biennium to women’s healthcare funding 5
- 170,000 more women now have access to cancer screenings, wellness exams, family planning and other vital health services due to increase funding 6
- over 3,000 providers are signed up for the Women’s Health Program – more than double the number participating in 2011. 7
- 50% - Total expected increase in premiums and out of pocket expenses for women age 55 to 64 — a much larger increase than for any other group due to Obamacare 8
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193% - monthly premium payments that have risen for the typical 30-year-old woman under Obamacare 9
- In Texas the monthly premium payments increased 245%, costing women an additional $111 each month
Women care about healthcare policy and share a unique perspective on these issues because they represent an over whelming majority of the professional marketplace
- 92% of registered nurses are female 10
- American Heart Association
- http://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/2010/index.htm
- http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/bcccs/
- http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/bcccs/
- http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us
- http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us
- http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us
- http://iwf.org/blog/2794321/Older-Women-Hit-With-Highest-ObamaCare-Costs#sthash.PhnpxS7v.HcFB3gXC.dpuf
- http://americanactionforum.org/research/womenyoung-invincibles-not-immune-to-premium-rate-increases
- http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/QS-womenwork2010.htm and http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm