MergerWatch releases new toolkit for advocates to ensure that women’s prescriptions are filled at the pharmacy. Read "Protecting Women’s Rights at the Pharmacy Counter" to find out what you can do.
Religious/Secular hospital mergers can infringe on your community’s access to health services and restrict your family’s medical care. Find out more.
Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need: Learn more.
Decade-Long Battle over Hospital Merger Resolved.
MergerWatch's Comments On HHS Rule.
Vatican Issues Bioethics Document, Condemns Emergency Contraception.
Women have much at stake in the debates over health care reform at the state and national levels in the United States. The current American health care “system” is failing to provide access to needed care for many of these women and for the family members whose health care they often coordinate. The reasons are complex, involving issues of coverage eligibility and limitations, cost, health care disparities, family dynamics and the willingness of health care institutions and individual health professionals to provide requested services:
To address these issues MergerWatch, along with the Avery Institute for Social Change and the National Women’s Health Network have started a project, Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need. The project’s goal is to ensure that women’s perspectives about their health care needs and those of their families can be powerfully articulated, genuinely considered and incorporated into health care reform plans.