The ACA gave women the right to access lactation support, including breast pumps. Insurance companies have made this process so difficult that frustrated women are giving up. Women are being provided only ineffective manual pumps or are told they need to wait 7-10 business days to get a pump crucial to stimulating milk production. Worse, some are completely denied a breast pump after hours of run-around from their insurance companies. The end result is that socioeconomic barriers preventing new mothers from breastfeeding still exist.
This petition seeks a response and solution to the actions of insurance companies denying or delaying breast pump access and availability as outlined in the ACA: http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2011/08/womensprevention080120....