The chair of the Senate’s health committee says women are still being charged for contraception that is supposed to be free under federal law.
Sen. Bernie Sanders , who chairs the Senate health panel, wants the Government Accountability Office to investigate why women are being charged for contraception that should be free under federal law. Women are still being charged for contraception even though federal law dictates it should be free. The chair of the Senate health committee wants a government watchdog to investigate why.to provide birth control to patients as a preventive service.
Democrats have pushed to ensure access to contraception amid broader challenges to reproductive health services. Senate leaders last week held a vote“I’m extremely worried, honestly,” said Rachel Fey, vice president of policy and strategic partnerships at Power to Decide, a nonprofit group focused on reproductive health, saying she fears contraception access is facing “death by 1,000 cuts” and that plans’ failure to comply with federal law is making it worse.
“There’s nothing more frustrating than hearing that this is still happening more than a decade after this provision went into effect,” Fey said. “If people are still not getting the contraceptive coverage they’re entitled to, this becomes … an enforcement issue.”by the state of Vermont that found three insurers wrongly charged residents more than $1.5 million for contraception.
“Writing that cover all of those things without saying you essentially have to cover them all is challenging,” Frederiksen said.to health insurers instructing them of their obligation to provide no-cost contraceptives, and HHS and the Treasury and Labor departments issued Fey said the Biden administration could go further to collect complaints from women facing barriers to contraception access. She pointed to the“I would love to see the administration do something similar” for contraception, Fey said. “To really make it user-friendly for people to say, ‘Hey, I think I’m not getting the contraception I’m supposed to be getting.’”
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