A new rule for the Affordable Care Act would require insurance companies to bill separately for abortion coverage while placing regular premiums on another bill.
Friday, the Trump administration added a new policy to the Affordable Care Act that could potentially make it more difficult for women to receive abortions by requiring insurance providers to generate separate bills for anyone whose insurance plan covers abortions. If the bill for abortion coverage goes unpaid, then insurance companies can exercise the right to cancel the entire policy.While the regular premium would appear on one bill, a second bill would be for an abortion coverage premium.
"If they can't make it illegal, they will make it as inaccessible as possible, and they're pulling out every single stop in order to do that," Mary Alice Carter of Equity Forward toldDirector of Women's Health and Rights at the Center for American Progress Jamille Fields Allsbrook called the policy a"cruel blow to women's access to abortion services" in a statement.
Insurers are expected to be required two send two bills to consumers under the Affordable Care Act who have abortion coverage, which could hamper women's access to abortion services."This rule will, among other things, separate abortion from all other medical services, requiring insurers to send a separate bill to patients for abortion services," Allsbrook wrote.
Secretary Alex Azar of the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that the new ruling is a matter of being"good stewards of taxpayer dollars and faithfully implementing the law."
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