Implementing Health Reform: Clarifying Requirements For Coverage Of...
The Affordable Care Act requires nongrandfathered individual and group insurers and group health plans to cover certain preventive services without cost sharing. Specifically, it requires coverage of:...
View ArticleHow Texas Lawmakers Continue To Undermine Women’s Health
For years, Texas has had the highest proportion of uninsured individuals overall, and for adult women specifically, of any state. In 2013, one in five Texans had no health insurance of any kind,...
View ArticleHow Safety Concerns About Essure Reveal A Path To Better Device Tracking
On September 24, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) convened a public advisory committee meeting to discuss safety concerns about the Essure — a permanent birth control device that is implanted in...
View ArticleZubik v. Burwell Oral Arguments: Under Contraceptive Coverage Accommodation,...
Implementing Health Reform (March 29 update). In a curious turn of events, the Supreme Court on March 29, 2016 ordered the parties in the contraceptive cases to submit supplemental briefs addressing...
View ArticlePatients Are The New Partners In Reproductive Health Research
I was 14 when I assisted my mother in giving birth to my brother, Benjamin. My step father worked the swing shift seven days a week, which meant my mother and I were each other’s primary support...
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