Top 15 Ways Ryan Republican Budget Harms Women And Their Families

• Insurance companies would be allowed once again to charge women more than men for the same health coverage.

• Insurance companies would be allowed once again to treat being a woman as a "pre-existing condition."

• Millions of women and their families would be stripped of the private Marketplace health plans and the expanded Medicaid coverage they have obtained under the Affordable Care Act.

• More than 47 million women would again have to pay out-of-pocket for lifesaving preventive health care services, like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings.

Undermines Women's Economic Security

• The Ryan Republican budget fails to call for increasing the minimum wage, leaving the nearly two-thirds of our nation's minimum wage workers who are women behind.

• The Ryan Republican budget fails to call for a bill promoting equal pay for equal work for women, with women on average still earning only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.

• The Ryan Republican budget cuts Food Stamps by $137 billion over the next 10 years, which would be devastating for millions of America's women.  Nearly 62 percent of adult Food Stamp recipients are women.

• At least 200,000 women and children would be dropped from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), if the GOP's 15 percent cut in non-defense appropriations in 2016 was applied across-the-board.

Punishes Women Seniors and Cuts Health Benefits to Give Tax Breaks to Millionaires

• Up to 4 million women seniors in the Rx drug ‘donut hole' would immediately have to start paying more for their Rx drugs because the Ryan Republican budget re-opens the ‘donut hole.'  As a result, seniors in the ‘donut hole' will be forced to pay an additional $18,000 on average for their Rx drugs over 10 years.

• Women make up 55 percent of Medicare enrollees and would suffer the most when the Medicare guarantee is replaced with a voucher in 2024 – with premiums for traditional Medicare going up by 50 percent on average.   Indeed, the Republican plan would drive traditional Medicare into a "death spiral."

• The Ryan Republican budget slashes Medicaid by $732 billion over 10 years or by nearly 25 percent in 2024 – with the largest impact on women.  Nearly 70 percent of Medicaid's adult beneficiaries are women; in addition, Medicaid is the primary payer for 64 percent of nursing home residents, who are mostly women.

• 66 percent of individuals who depend on senior meals like Meals on Wheels are women.  Senior meals would be cut by 15 percent in 2016 if the GOP cut in non-defense appropriations was applied proportionately.

Threatens Our Nation's Competitiveness for Generations to Come

• Up to 5.6 million women students would find college less affordable due to $145 billion in cuts in Pell Grants under the Ryan Republican budget.

• Up to 170,000 children would lose access to Head Start and up to 3.4 million disadvantaged children at 8,000 schools would lose vital Title I education funding, if the Ryan Republican Budget's 15 percent cut in non-defense appropriations in 2016 was applied across-the-board.

• Parents of tens of thousands of children would be impacted by a 15 percent cut in help with child care expenses in 2016, if the GOP cut in non-defense appropriations was applied proportionately.