To require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, To require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients. The main policy domain is Healthcare, Finance, Labor.
Who Benefits and How
health care providers and patients may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, health care providers and patients may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section S1: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Affordability is Access Act of 2023.
- Section id173e950667274bdaab3bf5414029d549: 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to ensure timely access to affordable birth control by requiring coverage without cost-sharing for contraceptives that...
- Section id4e956f758c0d45678e12c3d12829b13e: 3. Findings The Senate finds the following: Birth control is critical health care that almost all women, as well as many trans men and nonbinary people, will...
- Section idb85d54101da74d859d0af84bd99bf53e: 4. Sense of the Senate It is the sense of the Senate that— in order to increase access to oral birth control, such birth control must be both easier to obtain...
- Section id7ad7157884804668bac431988db63da4: 5. Clarifying coverage requirements The Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury shall clarify that coverage of contraceptives...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, To require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare, Finance, Labor
Primary Purpose
This bill, To require group health plans and group or individual health insurance coverage to provide coverage for over-the-counter contraceptives., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting health care providers and patients.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- health care providers and patients
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- health care providers and patients
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMrs. Murray (for herself, Ms. Hirono, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. …
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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "federal_implementing_agencies"
- → Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill
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