Report: Obamacare has saved women $1.4 billion on birth control pills

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Women's birth control spending has dramatically declined under Obamacare, a new analysis published Tuesday in Health Affairs shows.
http://www.healthaffairs.org

Obamacare requires most health insurance plans to cover all contraceptives, including pills, patches, and implants — at no cost to the patient. Under that mandate, women have saved $1.4 billion on birth control pills alone, the Health Affairs paper estimates. Out-of-pocket spending on intrauterine devices, which can cost upward of $1,000, has meanwhile fallen 68 percent.

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While birth control is often used as shorthand for hormonal birth control pills, in the case of the health-care law, it actually refers to 18 types of contraceptives that the FDA has found to be safe and effective. This includes but is not limited to oral contraception (a.k.a. the Pill), birth control patches, the ring (otherwise known as Nuvaring), the shot (Depo-Provera), IUDs (intrauterine devices), and permanent contraceptives like sterilization.

The birth control mandate means insurance plans cannot charge co-payments when patients fill any birth control prescription, whether that's for birth control pills, an IUD, or something else.

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/7/8907389/obamacare-birth-control-savings


http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/7/1204.abstract

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