The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the first birth control pill to be sold without a prescription in the U.S., a move long sought by reproductive health advocates and physicians to make contraception easier to obtain.
Approving Opill for over-the-counter (OTC) use could significantly expand access to contraception, especially for younger women and those in rural and underserved communities, who currently need to overcome logistical barriers to get thei...
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White House targets short-term ‘junk’ insurance plans
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White House takes action against short-term ‘junk’ insurance plans and surprise billing
The Biden administration announced plans on Friday to tamp down on "junk" insurance plans and surprise medical fees as part of the "Bidenomics" agenda and its goal of lowering health care costs for Americans.
Through its newly proposed rules, the White House is aiming to crack down on short-term health plans, or "junk plans" as critics refer to them.
Short-term plans are not required to abide by Affordable Care Act (ACA) protections. These less-expensive plans offer...
Why Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements are a crucial test case
Georgia is set to become the only state in the country to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, and the success or failure of its plan could be a test case for other states that are planning ahead for the next Republican White House.
The new program, set to launch this weekend, will allow able-bodied adults who have never qualified for Medicaid to join. It could offer health care coverage to tens of thousands additional residents — but only if they can prove th...
Why Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements are a crucial test case
Georgia is set to become the only state in the country to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, and the success or failure of its plan could be a test case for other states that are planning ahead for the next Republican White House.
The new program, set to launch this weekend, will allow able-bodied adults who have never qualified for Medicaid to join. It could offer health care coverage to tens of thousands additional residents — but only if they can prove th...
How the Dobbs decision stunted anti-abortion action in the House GOP
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Democrats call for DACA health care expansion
A group of 80 Democratic lawmakers is calling on the Biden administration to implement a proposal to expand access to federal health care benefits for people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
In a letter led by Sens. Cory Booker (N.J.), Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Reps. Joaquín Castro (Texas) and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), the Democrats asked Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure t...
Biden to sign executive order to expand birth control access
President Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at increasing access to contraception and family planning.
The order is part of the administration's efforts to promote reproductive health care and comes one day ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It will also be the administration's only policy response to mark the anniversary.
While the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizatio...
Biden to sign executive order to expand birth control access
President Biden will sign an executive order Friday aimed at increasing access to contraception and family planning.
The order is part of the administration's efforts to promote reproductive health care and comes one day ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It will also be the administration's only policy response to mark the anniversary.
While the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizatio...