Welcome to the WomenMatter Healthcare Wiki

Welcome to the Wiki. Here you can share your experiences with the American healthcare system. WomenMatter will collect your personal stories and your recommendations to improve it. When we have lots of individual comments, we will communicate a composite picture of women’s opinions about the healthcare system to our elected representatives. Women’s experiences and ideas can help change government policy to make the system better for everyone.

To organize the information on this Wiki, WomenMatter has identified four important parts of a good healthcare system: Quality: up-to-date doctors, medicines and hospitals; Access: who gets care, when and where; Choice: the ability to choose your doctor and your hospital, and Cost. Please help us keep track of your contributions by putting your personal experiences, or your opinions, into one of the four categories. There will be questions on both the Personal Stories and Recommended Policies pages to get you started thinking, but don’t let them limit what you want to say.

Sharing your experiences with others helps all of us. For example, did your primary care physician refer you to a specialist but you couldn’t be seen for three months? Does your medical insurance cover just part of your healthcare costs? Did the wait in the emergency room seem endless? By sharing your healthcare stories with other women you will help start a national conversation that can lead to real changes being made.

By contributing to the WomenMatter Healthcare Wiki, you will be creating a foundation for more effective healthcare policies and laws that respond to people’s real needs. Please give us your ideas, opinions, and recommendations to improve the healthcare system. We’ll take it from there.

Registering to participate in the WomenMatter Healthcare Wiki is easy and requires only that you reply to an email. Sign up today. We look forward to hearing from you!