Insurers dont have to cover birth control under GOPs revised health bill
The Affordable Care Act ensures that all FDA-approved birth control methods are covered without a copay if you have health insurance, with few exceptions.
But the revised Senate health care bill would scrap the birth control mandate — allowing insurance companies to sell plans that don’t include any of the currently mandated women’s preventive health services, from birth control to HPV testing.
This change is part of a broader rollback of preventive benefits: If the Senate bill becomes law, health insurers will be able to offer plans that don’t cover a range of these services, from cancer screenings to childhood immunizations. Under the Affordable Care Act, all insurers are required to cover them.
Insurers would have to sell at least onecomprehensive plan that complies with all the Obamacare-era regulations. But as long as they did that, they could also sell skimpier, cheaper plans, including ones that exclude women’s preventive care.
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