{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141024002114/http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/blog/national-breast-cancer-awareness-month-its-time-to-take-control-of-your-health", "National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: It's Time to Take Control of Your Health", "2014-10-23", "2014", "2014-10", "Democrat", "House", "WI", "Tammy Baldwin", "B001230", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "Today at 4:12 PM\n\t\t\t\t National Breast Cancer Awareness Month: It's Time to Take Control of Your Health \n\t\t\t\t\n                 \n\t\n\t            \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t  \t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTo raise awareness for breast cancer, Tammy is encouraging women to empower themselves with the knowledge to make health care decisions that work for them and their families - \u00a0and take advantage of the free preventive health care and cancer screenings available to them. To see the blog she wrote for Women\u2019s Health, click here.\nThis October, as we join together to raise awareness for breast cancer, it\u2019s important that we take the time to celebrate the progress we have made on women\u2019s health.\nBecause of the\u00a0Affordable Care Act, American women are now empowered with more choices and stronger health coverage. And thanks to the health law\u2019s new protections, women are realizing the benefits of health security for the first time, and they are no longer discriminated against by insurance companies simply because they are a woman.\nToday, someone\u2019s mother can get a lifesaving mammogram without the fear of high medical bills. And, someone\u2019s sister can take advantage of a cervical cancer screening without worrying how to pay for it. This is important because we know early detection and prompt treatment of cancer is vital to saving lives and increasing survivorship rates.\nWomen who couldn\u2019t afford to buy birth control now have a guaranteed benefit available with no out-of-pocket cost. This part of the law has already saved women an estimated $483.3 million in out-of-pocket costs in 2013 alone. Also, women now have guaranteed maternity coverage, a benefit that many individual health plans did not include before this historic law was passed by Congress and signed by President Obama.\nWhile some politicians continue their calls for repeal of these critical reforms, it is important that we work together to protect these gains for women and their families.\u00a0 We also need to do more to strengthen the health security of women.\nThat is why I am working to reauthorize the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. This bipartisan program provides cancer screenings to low-income, uninsured, and under-insured women across America by making investments in states to partner with non-profit groups and local health clinics that coordinate and deliver life-saving screenings to women in need. These screenings include clinical breast exams, mammograms, pap tests, HPV tests, pelvic exams, and referrals for treatment. Since its inception in 1991, this program has provided nearly 11 million screening exams for breast and cervical cancer\u2014including five\u00a0million mammograms\u2014to underserved women.\nAll women should have access to the most current breast and cervical cancer detection services. That\u2019s why I\u2019ll continue my work in the U.S. Senate to make sure women have access to the critical care they need to maintain their health.\nBut we all have a role to play to engage, educate, and empower our friends, family, and neighbors. We can all do or part to raise awareness about breast cancer and advance women\u2019s health.\nNot just this month, but every day.\nKnow the facts, and empower yourself with the knowledge to make the health-care decisions that work for you and your family. Early detection tests for breast and cervical cancer save thousands of lives each year\u2014but many more lives could be saved if more women took full advantage of these tests. Share this information with your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, and the other women in your life. And take advantage of the free preventive cancer screenings that are so essential to your health.\nLet us join together as one community and renew our commitment to healthy women\u2014because healthy women\u00a0lead to healthy families, and healthy families lead to healthy communities.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20141024002114/http://www.baldwin.senate.gov/blog/national-breast-cancer-awareness-month-its-time-to-take-control-of-your-health"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8074650540947914, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}