KFF Releases “Women and Healthcare: A National Profile”

The Kaiser Family Foundation has just released “Women and Healthcare:  A National Profile“.   Concurrently with the release, KFF held a webcast to discuss key aspects of the report.  Panelists at the webcase, which is available online, include:

Moderator:

• Jackie Judd, vice president, senior advisor for communications, Kaiser Family Foundation

Panelists:

• Diane Rowland, Sc.D., executive vice president, Kaiser Family Foundation; executive director, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
• Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D., vice president and director for Women’s Health Policy, Kaiser Family Foundation
• Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Paula A. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H., executive director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Susan Starr Sered, Ph.D., co-author of Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of OpportunitySuffolk University

This publication is a MUST READ for anyone who cares a whit about the state of health care for women in the United States.  If you don’t have time to review the entire document, then at least look at the highlights.