To: Kathleen Sebelius, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

Congressional staff deserve access to comprehensive health insurance!

I’m writing to submit my comment in support of the Proposed Rule: Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Members of Congress and Congressional Staff.

Under Obamacare’s new health exchanges, some congressional staffers will purchase private health insurance plans with their own money.

I want to encourage your agency to resist the latest attempt by anti-women’s health politicians and their allies to roll back the benefits of the ACA by preventing congressional employees from accessing perfectly legal health care with their own money.

Please uphold the law and allow congressional staffers to select a plan that meets their individual needs.

Why is this important?

Once again, anti-women’s health lawmakers and organizations like the Family Research Council think they should decide how and when a woman can receive medical care: this time by trying to forbid congressional staffers from accessing health plans that cover abortion–with their own money.
Under Obamacare’s new health exchanges, many congressional staffers will purchase the same private health insurance plans as you and me. But if our opponents have their way, these staffers would be completely forbidden from buying insurance plans that cover abortion.
We only have until Monday to tell the administration to reject these ridiculous restrictions. These anti-women’s health lawmakers and organizations think they can sneak this latest restriction in without our noticing. But we aren’t going to sit back and let a small but vocal group of extremists take away any woman’s right to choose the best health care plan for her and her family, or make it harder for women to access the care they need.
Tell the Obama administration you support comprehensive health insurance for all women.