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Last summer, HHS released new insurance market rules under the Affordable Care Act requiring all new private health plans to cover several evidence-based preventive services like mammograms, colonoscopies, blood pressure checks, and childhood immunizations without charging a copayment, deductible or coinsurance. The Affordable Care Act also made recommended preventive services free for people on Medicare.

Today’s announcement builds on that progress by making sure women have access to a full range of recommended preventive services without cost sharing, including:

• well-woman visits;
• screening for gestational diabetes;
• human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing for women 30 years and older;
• sexually-transmitted infection counseling;
• human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) screening and counseling;
• FDA-approved contraception methods and contraceptive counseling;
• breastfeeding support, supplies, and counseling; and
• domestic violence screening and counseling.

New health plans will need to include these services without cost sharing for insurance policies with plan years beginning on or after August 1, 2012.

 

(Source: bthny, via zombiecuddle)

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    …to quote one of the followups to the original post picked at random, then someone needs to shit on their cupcakes real...

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    THIS IS AN EXCITING THING I AM EXCITED FOR THIS

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    NARAL emailed me about this and called it “the biggest victory for women’s health in a generation.”

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    A bit of good news :’)

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    I believe Joe Biden said it best, “This is a Big Fucking Deal.” Love, Rabble

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