Sentences with phrase «restricting abortion coverage»
The addition of these nine states brings to 16 the number of states restricting abortion coverage available through state insurance exchanges.
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In two other developments related to insurance coverage of abortion, North Carolina moved to limit abortion coverage under the health plan offered to state employees to cases of life endangerment, rape and incest; this brings to15 the number of states restricting abortion coverage for state employees.
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Every member of Congress should listen to Tiffany tell her story, before they vote to restrict private health insurance coverage for abortion.»
These new restrictions bring to eight the number of states limiting abortion coverage in all private insurance plans (see Restricting Insurance Coverage of Ababortion coverage in all private insurance plans (see Restricting Insurance Coverage of AbortionAbortion).
Iowa moved to further restrict coverage of abortion for Medicaid recipients in the state to only cases of life endangerment, rape and incest, and eliminated a long - standing provision in state law providing coverage in cases where there is a diagnosed fetal abnormality.
«Planned Parenthood strongly opposes the Nelson / Hatch amendment, which goes far beyond the Hyde amendment and current law to restrict private health insurance coverage of abortion in the US,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
These limits exist alongside the already burdensome Hyde Amendment, which bars federal Medicaid coverage of abortion in most circumstances; 35 states decline to extend state Medicaid funds to cover abortion beyond very limited circumstances.19 This increasingly restricted environment creates severe disincentives for insurers to contract with abortion providers — and specialized abortion providers in particular — and for providers to accept insurance if contracts are offered.
Twenty - five states limit abortion coverage in the ACA's marketplaces, including 10 that restrict coverage in all private health care plans regulated by the state; 15 Texas will become the 11th state to broadly restrict private abortion coverage when a new law goes into effect in 2018.