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Why I support Obama

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To the editor:

As a father of a daughter and a husband of a lovely wife who I want to continue to grow old with, I feel that the need for their access to preventative healthcare is vitally important.

For decades, too many women have gone without important preventive health screenings and services, like mammograms, pap tests, and contraception, because their insurance companies refused to cover them. Thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act, those days are finally over. Insurance companies now have to cover preventive health services for both men and women at no additional costs, putting Americans in charge of their health care and lowering costs for women and their families.

I would like people to know that starting Aug. 1, insurance companies began to cover eight new health services for women, including contraception, breastfeeding support, well-woman exams, domestic violence screenings, and sexually transmitted disease screenings without any co-pay or deductible. As a result, 1.8 million women in Ohio will gain coverage for these services in the coming months.

This will not just save women and their families money, they also help save lives.

Unfortunately, Romney wants to turn back the clock and repeal Obamacare, eliminating these new protections and returning to the days when women could be charged more for health insurance, just for being a woman. Which I find that attitude to be quite impolite and unfortunate at best. Romney also supports the Blunt-Rubio amendment that would turn women's health decisions over to their bosses.

Every woman deserves to be able to get the care she needs to live a long and healthy life. That is not only the right thing to do it is the proper thing to do. So I believe we should continue to move forward and that is why I am supporting President Obama.

Sincerely,
Roger Myers
Lynchburg

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