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United States Contraception

Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Changes to the health care system under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are having wide-ranging impacts on health coverage and provision of care to men and women across the United States. Guttmacher studies the ACA’s impact on reproductive health coverage and access, with a particular focus on the federal contraceptive coverage guarantee, which has eliminated cost barriers that could impede women’s ability to obtain the method that is best for them. The Institute also focuses on identifying vulnerable populations, such as many immigrants, who are not fully benefiting from the ACA.

  • Affordable Care Act (ACA)
  • Publicly Funded Family Planning
  • State Policies on Contraception
  • Policy Analysis

    The First 10 Years of the ACA: We Must Protect and Build on Major Gains in Sexual and Reproductive Health

  • Blog / Letter / Op-ed

    U.S. Insurance Coverage, 2018: The Affordable Care Act Is Still Under Threat and Still Vital for Reproductive-Age Women

  • Policy Analysis

    The ACA’s Birth Control Benefit Is Back Before the Supreme Court

Top Facts & Statistics

  • 87%

    of insured women did not have to pay out of pocket for a hormonal IUD by spring 2014
  • 15-67%

    increase in women paying zero dollars out of pocket for oral contraceptive pills between fall 2012 and spring 2014.
  • 20%

    decrease in women living below the poverty line who were uninsured between 2013 and 2014

Resources

  • August 2011 Policy Analysis

    New Federal Protections Expand Coverage Without Cost-Sharing of Contraceptives and Other Women’s Preventive Services

    Adam Sonfield,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
  • August 2011 Policy Analysis

    Political Tug-of-War Over Medicaid Could Have Major Implications for Reproductive Health Care

    Adam Sonfield,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
  • March 2011 Policy Analysis

    The Case for Insurance Coverage of Contraceptive Services And Supplies Without Cost-Sharing

    Adam Sonfield,Guttmacher Policy Review

    United States

    • Abortion
    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
    • Pregnancy
  • January 2011 Policy Analysis

    Holding on to health reform and what we have gained for reproductive health

    Rachel Benson Gold and Adam Sonfield

    United States

    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
  • January 2011 Policy Analysis

    Testimony of Guttmacher Institute to Subcommittee on Preventive Services for Women’s Institute of Medicine

    United States

    • Contraception
    • HIV & STIs
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  • March 2010 Policy Analysis

    CMS Guidance on Family Planning State Plan Amendments

    Rachel Benson Gold, Rian Frachele and Robin Summers

    United States

    • Contraception
  • November 2008 Policy Analysis

    Role of Medicaid Family Planning Waivers and Title X In Enhancing Access to Preconception Care

    Rachel Benson Gold,Women's Health Issues

    United States

    • Contraception

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The exclusion of methods used by men from the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage guarantee simply makes no sense and benefits no one—not men, not women, not families, not health plans. Instead, it hinders contraceptive choice and effective use. It creates a financial incentive for couples to choose female tubal ligation over less invasive and less expensive male vasectomy. And it perpetuates the all-too-common view that contraception is solely the woman’s responsibility

Adam Sonfield

Associate Director of Policy Analysis

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