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
• 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
• $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
• 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