Birth Control: A Preventative Service?

Birth Control: A Preventative Service? - Washington Wire - WSJ: Planned Parenthood launched a campaign today aimed at getting birth control designated as a preventative service under the new health care law. Preventative services must be provided to patients for free under the new rules, so if birth control is considered preventive, women would not be required to make co-payments. Women’s groups had hoped for little controversy over whether birth control would be considered preventive care. But some conservatives have already expressed concern, and the Department of Health and Human Services asked the independent Institute of Medicine to make a recommendation on what services to include. A final decision, which will be made by the HHS secretary, is expected in summer 2011.