Affordability is Access Act
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Affordability is Access Act
This bill establishes several requirements relating to health-insurance coverage of, and access to, over-the-counter contraceptives.
Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury to specify that private health-insurance plans must cover over-the-counter contraceptives that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), even without a prescription. Under current law, private health-insurance plans (with some exceptions) must cover FDA-approved prescription contraceptives, without cost-sharing requirements.
The bill also prohibits retailers from interfering with an individual's access to oral contraceptives that are meant for routine, daily use and are FDA-approved for use without a prescription.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1847: Affordability is Access Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1847/
"S. 1847: Affordability is Access Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1847/.
S. 1847, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-1847/.
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