/* ---------- "Health Care Reform Today 10-19-93" ---------- */ [FOLLOWING IS THE PERIODIC BRIEFING SENT BY THE WHITE HOUSE TO ITS OFFICIALS AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF ITS HEALTH-CARE REFORM PLAN. THIS PERIODIC DOCUMENT GIVES A GLIMPSE OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S EFFORTS TO PROMOTE ITS HEALTH PLAN. IF YOU DO NOT CARE TO READ IT, NOTE THAT IT WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE SUBJECT: Health Care Reform Today , SO YOU CAN EASILY SKIP READING IT. -- Steve Freedkin, list administrator] The White House Health Care Reform Today October 19, 1993 * It is important to show the contrasts between the President's Health Security Act and the other plans that are in the public debate...particularly with regard to women's health issues. * No other health care plan being debated offers this level of benefits for women. * The President's Health Security Act addresses women's health care specifically and comprehensively, guaranteeing coverage to all women, regardless of health status, marital status, employment status, or ability to pay. Specifically, the Health Security Plan will cover a schedule of preventive screenings, tests and checkups at no cost, protection available in only a few of today's insurance policies. * Women of any age can receive clinical services, including clinical breast exams, and mammograms at any time when they are medically necessary or appropriate with cost sharing as specified by their plan. * Women of any age who are defined to be at risk of breast cancer by the National Health Board will receive additional visits, including clinical breast exams and mammograms, at a schedule appropriate to their risk status with no cost sharing. * Again, no other health care plan being debated parallels this level of benefits for women. * The President said yesterday: "When it comes to health care research and delivery, women can no longer be treated as second-class citizens." The Health Security Act assures that women's health concerns take center stage.