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McKinsey recently called advancing women at work a $ 12 trillion business opportunity.Women’s health costs, particularly around fertility and pregnancy, often represent the largest single cost bucket for selfinsured companies -not even factoring in the costs of low employee retention around pregnancy.

Business leaders have already started a shift ward a lot more robust support of women in the workplace, not out of goodwill but out of consideration for their bottom line. From adding fertility benefits like egg freezing or free IVF cycles to maternal health programs for postpartum and backtowork support, the needle seems going to shift further ward thoughtful maternity policies in 2017. Loads of experts anticipate this provision may be the first cuts Whether amended,, or the ACA is repealed. Now look. Prospect of costs increasing significantly for 2018 is already leading many health providers to advise women to seek out longacting reversible contraceptives including implants and IUDs, Undoubtedly it’s likely that women covered under alreadypurchased 2017 plans will retain their coverage for this year. Advent of The Pill freed women to start a workplace revolution. Another giant step forward occurred when the Affordable Care Act made birth control free to 55 million women.

Spike in usage of those products might be seen in the nearterm.

Many state legislatures are passing anti abortion legislation to challenge it, in hopes that a more conservative Supreme Court would vote to overturn the law.

Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Alaska, North Carolina. Roe Wade was a landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal. Ohio’s recent Heartbeat Bill, that was vetoed by the governor, would have restricted abortions to before a heartbeat developed, typically before six weeks gestation. You see, states to watch this year. Historic Supreme Court case earlier this year ruled an anti abortion law in Texas as unconstitutional. Like birth control, though abortion may not seem directly associated with women in the workplace, women’s control over their own bodies and reproduction frees them to make their own choices, including being entrepreneurs. Now let me tell you something. Vice President elect Mike Pence has even supported anti abortion legislation in Indiana. Increased use of nurse practitioners and midwives in women’s health will may be a continuation of the trend ward nurse practitioners and identical health professionals stepping in where care from a doctor is a problem to obtain. In December, a law was passed to expand the scope of practice for advanced practice nurse practitioners and ‘nursemidwives’ so that they can deliver basic primary and women’s health care to veterans without physician supervision. Most key stakeholders at the helm of insurance companies, hospitals, government -even digital health companies -have been men, with intention to date. Naya Health, Thinx, Clue, LOLA, Ritual, Bellabeat, Elvie, Dot Laboratories and Celmatix. Few examples. Definitely, so that’s beginning to change, and 2017 should be a breakthrough year. Beyond my company, Maven, that delivers telemedicine for women and a maternal health program to employers, an awful lot of other by women, for women companies are having an impact. Women are also solving healthcare in workplace. Basically the irony is that healthcare is the largest industry in the United States, and women make 80 of healthcare decisions, yet only 4 of healthcare CEOs are women.

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