Insurance_Coverage_On_Contraceptives

Insurance Coverage On Contraceptives While almost all insurance plans cover prescription drugs, many do not cover all of the contraceptive drugs and devices approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the United States, approximately 50% of pregnancies are unintended, this is the highest rate of all industrialized nations. An Institute of Medicine Committee on Unintended Pregnancy in 1995 said that one of the reasons for the high rates of unintended pregnancies in the U.S. was private health insurance failure to cover contraceptives. Contraceptives have such a track record in preventing unintended pregnancy, reducing the need for abortion and enhancing health of women and children. Insurance companies and employee healthcare plans should cover all contraceptive drugs and devices. Margaret Sanger was born into a world in which doctors were not allowed to give their patients information about contraceptives. The result for many women was childbirth, miscarriage and illegal abortions. Back then the Federal Comstock law (passed in the 1873) banned contraception and abortion as forms of “obscenity”. Although rich women could afford getting what they needed from Europe, poor women who mostly resorted to illegal abortions often did not survive. Sanger’s interest in sex education contraceptive, contraception, cover, health, drugs, prescription, plan, coverage, pills, women, pregnancy, contraceptives, insurance, services, employees, unintended, religious, employer, cost, care, bartell, title, sex, sanger, rate, per, methods, healthcare, employee, drug, dollard, against, reproductive, plans, one