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YEAR: 1998

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Paying for family planning.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

Lancet. 1998 Sep 12;352(9131):831.

ABSTRACT

Both houses of the US Congress have passed bills to require that all health plans for federal employees which pay

for prescription medications also cover prescription contraceptives approved by the US Food and Drug Administration

(USFDA). Of these, the five most commonly prescribed are contraceptive pills, implantable levonorgestrel (Norplant),

long-acting injectable medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-provera), IUDs, and the diaphragm. Differences between

the two bills are now being worked out by a joint House-Senate committee and passage seems almost certain. If a

compromise joint bill is passed by both houses, it would cover plans which insure more than 1 million reproductive

age women. However, the Equity in Prescription and Contraceptive Coverage (EPICC) Act requiring all US private

health plans to cover contraceptive prescriptions is less certain to eventually become legislation. Currently, only

49% of traditional indemnity plans and 39% of health maintenance organizations cover the five most commonly

prescribed reversible methods of contraception, while many health plans cover no form of contraception, other than

sterilization. The passage of EPICC would expand contraceptive choice for another 45 million US women of

childbearing age. Opposition to both bills has come mainly from health insurance and business groups, as well as

conservative groups which oppose funding for family planning. Supporters of legislation to expand contraceptive

choice for US women should understand that the right to reproductive health and contraceptive services extends

beyond US borders, and pressure Congress to bolster US financial support for international population control

programs. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 26-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Paying for family planning.", is(are) . The source of this

article is "Lancet. 1998 Sep 12;352(9131):831.". This article was published in 1998 in English language(s).

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