Sentences with phrase «abortion coverage»

From guaranteed coverage of no - cost contraception to banning abortion coverage in private insurance, here are some of the recent state actions on women's health you may have missed.
And all carriers that currently provide health insurance in the state offer at least one plan that includes abortion coverage.
The addition of these nine states brings to 16 the number of states restricting abortion coverage available through state insurance exchanges.
For if the sheer passage of the bill was all that was needed, even without abortion coverage, then the bill was never a serious bill to begin with.
Existing state law permits abortion coverage only when a woman's life is endangered.
We call for a permanent ban on federal funding and subsidies for abortion and healthcare plans that include abortion coverage.
If the federal law were to happen, with no changes in New York on abortion coverage requirements, then New Yorkers who need to buy insurance on the health exchange would be limited to just one plan.
As the progressive site Think Progressreported, the Hyde Amendment set the status quo for federal abortion policy and «spawned similar restrictions banning abortion coverage for government employees, Peace Corps volunteers, federal inmates, military personnel, and Native American women.»
These new restrictions bring to eight the number of states limiting abortion coverage in all private insurance plans (see Restricting Insurance Coverage of Abortion).
Four states enacted provisions banning abortion coverage in the insurance exchanges being established under the Affordable Care Act.
On Wednesday, the House Health Committee will have public hearings on the Healthcare Rights of Conscience Act (HB375), Healthcare Compact legislation (HB43), and an opt - out of abortion coverage by state run exchanges (HB112).
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved today a provision that would lift the total ban on abortion coverage for Peace Corps Volunteers in the bill that funds U.S. foreign affairs.
The House - passed FY15 appropriations bill includes a commonsense and bipartisan provision that will provide equitable abortion coverage to Peace Corps volunteers in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the woman.
Some states are moving to limit abortion coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
But because the bill's abortion coverage provision extends outside of the Marketplace — and insurance plans (when not barred by state law) typically cover abortion — the number of women impacted by the provision could be far greater than 1 million.
Bipartisan efforts to restore the money recently fell apart over disputes about abortion coverage.
Permitting federally subsidized qualified health plans to provide abortion coverage through the state insurance exchanges required in all 50 states.
The mere fact that people are allowed to pay for their OWN abortion coverage, without federal money, is just too much for these people, which leads one to believe that people like the «Susan B. Anthony» List are malicious liars, though a fair amount of idiocy is involved in their thinking no one will call them on their lies.
that the pro-abortion lobby will exploit the new law to expand abortion coverage.
A provision in the Affordable Care Act replacement plan by Republicans in Congress sets up a potential clash with New York state over abortion coverage.
«The women of this country do not need one more vote against abortion coverage; one more vote against comprehensive sex education; and one more vote for a Supreme Court Justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade.»
The bill also includes new language allowing states increased access to abstinence education funding, new language directing the HHS Secretary to increase the transparency of abortion coverage within federal exchange health care plans, and new language directing HHS to quickly respond to claims filed by health care providers on conscience clause violations.
The exchange is the only place where premium subsidies are available, and advocates for reproductive rights have noted that in those 25 states (along with six other states where insurers are allowed to include coverage for abortion on their exchange plans but have chosen not to do so), there is no access to affordable health insurance with abortion coverage.
The addition of these four states brings to 20 the number of states restricting abortion coverage available through state insurance exchanges (see Restricting Insurance Coverage of Abortion).
Ever since the Stupak abortion coverage ban was approved by the House, there has been growing outrage across the country.
Abortion coverage varies from state to state and plan to plan.
«Moreover, the House leadership's plan would also impose unprecedented restrictions on women's health because it includes passing a Stupak - like abortion coverage ban, which would effectively end private health insurance coverage for abortion — guaranteeing that the majority of women with private health insurance would lose benefits they have today.
As a result, plans will be coerced into dropping abortion coverage.
Reinstates abortion coverage bans in the Illinois Medicaid and State Employee Health Insurance Programs.
Flake's congressional voting record is problematic, and includes support for an amendment to the Affordable Care Act to prohibit abortion coverage, support for defunding Planned Parenthood, and a vote against expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
For the first time in over three decades, Congress has extended equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps Volunteers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to expand restrictions on abortion, prohibiting individuals and small businesses from claiming federal tax credits through the Affordable Care Act if their health plan includes abortion coverage.
He also appears to have obtained an abortion compromise that would allow states to opt out of abortion coverage, which would result in huge swaths of the USA free from non therapeutic abortion insurance if the bill passes in current form.
Bans the State of Illinois and local governments from paying for abortions or including abortion coverage in health plans such as Medicaid and employee health insurance.
In an attempt to force through the administration's already - unpopular bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the administration backed legislation that would end maternity coverage for women, force new moms back to work, ban abortion coverage, and raise insurance costs for women.
Abortion coverage is required as well, apparently a «preventative service.»
President Obama's contraception coverage proposal is drawing fierce opposition because it would require religious institutions to give their employees access to insurance plans with birth control and abortion coverage.
The House of Representatives voted to expand restrictions on abortion, prohibiting individuals and small businesses from claiming federal tax credits through the Affordable Care Act if their health plan includes abortion coverage.
But under New York State rules, insurers are required to provide abortion coverage.
Even with the Republican failure to repeal former President Barack Obama's health care law, Democratic lawmakers in some states are pressing ahead with efforts to protect birth control access, Planned Parenthood funding and abortion coverage in case...
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