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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
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).
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...