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MomsRising.org’s ‘MomsHealth.org’ Website Provides Information about Health Care Options Under the Affordable Care Act

September 30, 2013
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

MomsRising.org, an online and on-the-ground grassroots organization for moms and everyone who has a mom, today launched its MomsHealth.org website to provide information about new affordable health care options and opportunities under the new health care law. The site links consumers to personalized information about health care coverage options; shares five ways the health care law will help families; tells stories about people who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act (ACA); and includes a place to sign up to join MomsRising.org’s Wellness Wonder Team of volunteers who are educating friends, family members, neighbors and others about new preventive care and consumer protection opportunities under the ACA. People who join the MomsRising.org Wellness Wonder Team effort will help spread the word to at least ten people in their local communities about how to enroll in the insurance marketplaces.
 
Beginning tomorrow, for the first time ever, thanks to the new health care law, millions of uninsured Americans will be able to shop for an affordable health insurance plan that covers everything from doctor and hospital visits, to maternity care and prescriptions.
 
MomsRising created MomsHealth.org because too many people still do not know about their health insurance options. A poll conducted this summer by Kaiser Family Foundation found that four in ten Americans are unaware that the Affordable Care Act still stands. A survey for Enroll America found that nearly 80 percent of eligible Americans don’t know about the new health insurance options.
 
“Despite all its benefits, the Affordable Care Act is still confusing to a lot of people, so we’re using Mom Power to explain it,” said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director & CEO of MomsRising.org. “As the primary decision-makers about their families’ health care, moms are uniquely suited to educate others about health care and about new, affordable health care coverage options. And we’re giving moms the tools they need to help get their friends and family covered too."
 
Through the MomsHealth.org website, anyone can get resources about the Affordable Care Act to share on social media, learn more about the law, and move directly to the healthcare.gov to get personalized health coverage quotes and enroll.
 
Earlier this year, MomsRising.org collected stories from moms and dads across the country about how the Affordable Care Act has already made a difference in their lives and compiled them in a book.
 
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MEDIA NOTE: To set up an interview with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner or moms and others who will be shopping for coverage under the health care exchanges that begin October 1, please contact Gretchen Wright or Kim Hayes at 202/371-1999.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.