Affordable health care Quote by Jan Schakowsky

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

— Martha Plimpton

There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance…

— Michelle Obama

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a…

— Jessica Chastain

It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.

— Sander Levin

We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then…

— Nancy Pelosi

Since the Affordable Care Act allows individuals to buy affordable health care coverage on their own, women no longer have to remain in a…

— Jan Schakowsky

Women are half the population and they know how to take care of themselves, if they are only given access to health care.

— Cynthia Nixon

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in…

— Barbara Mikulski

It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and…

— Martha Plimpton

We can't avoid tough decisions on tax, spending and pay. But that makes it even more important that we take care to ensure women…

— Rachel Reeves

And under Obamacare, insurance companies can no longer discriminate against women. Before, some wouldn't cover women's most basic needs, like contraception and maternity care,…

— Kathleen Sebelius

“The paradox of health care is that it is one of the most powerful ways of fighting poverty, yet can itself become an impoverishing…

— The Lancet