Women may be the big winners in the health reform game.
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund estimates that once fully implemented, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will cover nearly all women, reducing the uninsured rate among women from 20 percent to 8 percent.
Twenty percent of women in the United States—18.7 million—ages 19 to 64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, the report found. An additional 16.7 million women were underinsured in 2010, compared with 10.3 million in 2003.
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