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Contraceptives (Insurance Issues)

Insurance Coverage for Contraceptives Sought

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 30th, 1997

A national group's spokesman is trying to drum up support for a proposal to require health insurance companies to pay for prescription birth-control products for women.

Zero Population Growth is a Washington-based group that promotes spending on family-planning services as a way to keep the population from increasing. It argues that covering contraceptives for women would be cheaper for insurance companies in the long run than paying for unwanted pregnancies.

The idea mystified some Kansas officials, who acknowledged they had not thought of it before. Virginia enacted a law this year designed to provide more insurance coverage for...

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