{"id":3223,"date":"2025-01-17T08:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T23:09:48","slug":"white-house-nixes-proposal-to-make-insurance-cover-over-the-counter-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/white-house-nixes-proposal-to-make-insurance-cover-over-the-counter-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"White House nixes proposal to make insurance cover over-the-counter birth control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Trump set to take office next week, expansion of the birth control mandate is unlikely. Trump has wavered on his approach to contraception policy, but his previous administration took steps to weaken the Affordable Care Act\u2019s birth control mandate. Republicans, who now control Congress, have expressed interest in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/01\/10\/spending-cuts-house-gop-reconciliation-medicaid-00197541\">weakening provisions of the 2010 health law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the health law\u2019s entire preventive services mandate \u2014\u00a0the requirement that insurance cover birth control, but also vaccines, well-woman exams and mental health screenings. The court, which has 6-3 conservative majority, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/national-federation-of-independent-business-v-sebelius\/\">in the past <\/a>ruled to weaken the Affordable Care Act\u2019s reach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2013\/13-354\">including<\/a> the law\u2019s birth control coverage requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/19thnews.org\/2025\/01\/white-house-nixes-proposal-otc-birth-control-insurance-coverage\/\">19th News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Trump set to take office next week, expansion of the birth control mandate is unlikely. Trump has wavered on his approach to contraception policy, but his previous administration took steps to weaken the Affordable Care Act\u2019s birth control mandate. Republicans, who now control Congress, have expressed interest in weakening provisions of the 2010 health &#8230; <a title=\"White House nixes proposal to make insurance cover over-the-counter birth control\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/white-house-nixes-proposal-to-make-insurance-cover-over-the-counter-birth-control\/\" aria-label=\"More on White House nixes proposal to make insurance cover over-the-counter birth control\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[453,43,156],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-birth-control","tag-blocking-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}