1. Women’s Health in 2015: Why Your Voice Matters! Health Action 2015
Planned Parenthood’s Colorado and National Lessons

2. The Opportunity: The Affordable Care Act
"Being a woman will no longer be considered a pre-existing condition“ - Nancy Pelosi
“The Affordable Care Act is one of the greatest advancements for women’s health in a generation.” - Cecile Richards
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3. Colorado: The ACA Opportunity
Colorado ACA Women’s Health Coalition
Focus: Policy
Led by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative (NWLC grant)
Membership: Consumer health groups, women’s organizations, reproductive rights organizations
Purpose: Resource sharing, messaging, public education, advocacy organizing
Specific Outcomes:
Preventive Care Insurance Requirements Social Media Countdown
Fact sheets for women about the ACA
Messaging to generally appeal to women about the ACA
Working with insurers around preventive health
Responding to Colorado legislation to allow employers to deny coverage for contraception
Working with CO’s Division of Insurance for rulemaking around EOBs
Talk about traditional repro health groups

4. CO: ACA Enrollment
PPRM has worked with multiple coalitions focused on open enrollment
Latino groups
Progressive Roundtable
Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
Outcomes
Large and small scale enrollment events
Health navigator from Latino serving organization in PPRM Health Center
Coordinated outreach around key issues and dates to PPRM list
Implementation of PPRM’s own ACA Plan
Information for patients and supporters
Community canvasses to targeted low-income communities. We knocked on 62,000 doors, enrolled 2,400 and grew PPRM’s supporter list by 8,000.

5. National: The ACA Opportunity
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has implemented a national ACA plan
Focus: Policy and enrollment
National Partners: Enroll America
Purpose: To enroll people into new coverage nationwide, targeting Latinos in NM, CO, TX, OH and FL
Outcomes:
Providing tools to all PP affiliates about enrollment (
Community canvasses in targeted low income communities (total of 715,000 doors). Partially credited with spike in enrollment for Latinos.
Participated or hosted dozens of events
(often women’s health and consumer health partnerships)

6. Lessons
ACA provided one opportunity to create stronger and new coalitions.
More need for women’s health groups and consumer health groups to work together as ACA changes the landscape (i.e. watchdogging implementation and helping those still left out!)
Working together has positive results. Helps us to be creative, align goals, make better policy, share messaging, and help more people.
Working together helps understand intersectionality and differences - and bridge them. (birth control, abortion stigma, sex education, etc.)

7. Ashley Wheeland ashley. wheeland@pprm
Ashley Wheeland Legislative and Political Director Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains