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Comment from Ibis Reproductive Health on Request for Information: Coverage of Over-the-Counter Preventive Services
“OTC coverage is key to equitable access and in the case of contraceptive care, it is also a reproductive justice issue. We know that barriers to contraception fall harder on communities that experience systemic inequities due to structural racism, bias, and other forms of oppression, and it is imperative that policies are designed to break down these barriers, not uphold them.”
— Kelly Blanchard, Robyn Elliott, Victoria Nichols, and Britt Wahlin
Comment from Free the Pill coalition on Request for Information: Coverage of Over-the-Counter Preventive Services
“We urge the Administration to require insurance coverage of OTC contraception without a prescription requirement and without cost sharing. This is a vitally important path to ensuring the accessibility of Opill, particularly for those who face the most barriers to accessing reproductive health care.”
— Free the Pill coalition
Insurance coverage of OTC oral contraceptives: Lessons from the field
States with over-the-counter contraceptive coverage laws
State reproductive health access policies
Ensuring young people’s access to future over-the-counter birth control pills
Ensuring affordability of over-the-counter birth control pills
Behind the counter: Findings from the 2022 oral contraceptives access survey
Murray, Pressley, Ocasio-Cortez, Bera, Hirono, Cortez Masto unveil bill to expand affordable over-the-counter birth control
“The Affordability is Access Act would ensure that once the FDA determines an over-the-counter birth control option to be safe, it approves it without delay—and would ensure that insurers then fully cover over-the-counter birth control without any out-of-pocket costs.”
— Sen. Murray (D-WA), Rep. Pressley (D-MA-07), Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Rep. Bera (D-CA-07), Sen. Hirono (D-HI), and Sen. Cortez Masto (D-NV)