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In his announcement yesterday that 8 million people have enrolled in new health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, President Obama noted one of the Act’s key benefits: “No woman can be charged more just for being a...In his announcement yesterday that 8 million people have enrolled in new health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, President Obama noted one of the Act’s key benefits: “No woman can be charged more just for being a...In his announcement yesterday that 8 million people have enrolled in new health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, President Obama noted one of the Act’s key benefits: “No woman can be charged more just for being a...

In his announcement yesterday that 8 million people have enrolled in new health insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, President Obama noted one of the Act’s key benefits: “No woman can be charged more just for being a woman.”

Indeed, as Kaiser Family Foundation made clear in a presentation earlier this year, the ACA is the most important U.S. legislation protecting women’s health in a half-century. More charts here.