Our Policy Positions

Health Care Reform

The health care reform law signed by President Obama represents the greatest single legislative advancement for women’s health since Medicare and Medicaid were signed into law nearly 45 years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood supporters made health care reform a reality.

We launched our public campaign for health care reform immediately after the 2008 election by hosting health care reform house parties across the country. By the time the President signed the bill into law in March 2010, this campaign had become the most extensive coordinated lobbying, field, and communications effort in Planned Parenthood’s history.

The campaign included:

  • Five lobby days in Washington, DC, with more than 1,900 participants from across the country
  • 138 in-district Congressional meetings
  • 147 town hall meetings nationwide
  • 40,598 phone calls to Congress
  • 39,431 postcards and petitions to Congress
  • more than 700,000 e-mail contacts
  • 868 letters to the editor and 114 op-eds

Learn more about Planned Parenthood's work on passing health care reform. 

Watch these Planned Parenthood health care reform videos to experience the campaign first hand.

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