{"id":54407,"date":"2017-06-22T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-statement-of-stacey-d-stewart-president-march-of-dimes-on-release-of-the-better-care-reconciliation-act\/"},"modified":"2017-06-22T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T23:34:02","slug":"declaraciones-de-stacey-d-stewart-presidenta-de-march-of-dimes-sobre-la-presentacion-de-la-better-care-reconciliation-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/declaraciones-de-stacey-d-stewart-presidenta-de-march-of-dimes-sobre-la-presentacion-de-la-better-care-reconciliation-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Stacey D. Stewart, President, March of Dimes on Release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n    <span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 22, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The March of Dimes released the following statement from President <span class=\"xn-person\">Stacey D. Stewart<\/span> regarding release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act:<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgba1cleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgba1cleft\" title=\"March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/513643\/March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span>&#8220;The March of Dimes is profoundly disappointed that the Senate leadership has failed to protect pregnant women, infants, and families in the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;The bill released today fails repeatedly to prioritize and promote the needs of pregnant women, babies, and their families.\u00a0 No investment is made in promoting maternal and child health, or in ensuring that moms and infants can get the quality care they need for healthy pregnancies and a strong start in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Under the BCRA, families can expect to pay higher premiums for insurance plans that fail to cover the services they need.\u00a0 Medicaid coverage for up to 6.5 million women of childbearing age will be rescinded, making it harder for them to get healthy before they get pregnant.\u00a0 States will be able to permit insurers not to cover maternity and newborn care, meaning women and their partners will have to purchase expensive additional coverage for pregnancy or pay all the costs out of pocket for their prenatal and maternity care.\u00a0 Hundreds of billions of dollars will be slashed from Medicaid for people including pregnant women and children, requiring states to cut eligibility, services, or payments to strapped health care providers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This bill penalizes pregnant women, children and families at every turn.\u00a0 The March of Dimes calls upon all U.S. Senators to vote against this ill-conceived package, and to go back to the drawing board to produce legislation that will support the needs of moms, babies and families.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. For more than 75 years, moms and babies have benefited from March of Dimes research, education, vaccines, and breakthroughs. <span>\u00a0<\/span>For the latest resources and health information, visit our websites <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marchofdimes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>marchofdimes.org<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nacersano.marchofdimes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>nacersano.org<\/span><\/a><span>. For detailed national, state and local perinatal statistics, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marchofdimes.org\/peristats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>peristats.org<\/span><\/a><span>. You can also find us on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1lNRI8K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> or follow us on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/po.st\/LT0HMm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>Instagram<\/span><\/a><span> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1qlIXEX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/513643\/March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/513643\/March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  March of Dimes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n    <span><\/p>\n<p><span><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">June 22, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The March of Dimes released the following statement from President <span class=\"xn-person\">Stacey D. Stewart<\/span> regarding release of the Better Care Reconciliation Act:<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgba1cleft\">&lt;img id=&quot;prnejpgba1cleft&quot; title=&quot;March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;March_of_Dimes_Foundation_Logo&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}