Requires insurance companies to include contraceptive coverage.
A New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Court of Appeals upheld in January the Women's
Health Women's Health Definition
Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. and Wellness Act which requires insurance companies to include
contraceptive contraceptive /con·tra·cep·tive/ (-sep´tiv)
1. diminishing the likelihood of or preventing conception.
2. an agent that so acts. coverage in their drug benefit packages. A similar law,
the Women's Contraceptive Equity Act, was adopted in October 2004
in California.
Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial
consultant to the Humanist.
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