Affordability is Access Act of 2026

This bill would direct the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury to clarify that health insurance coverage of contraceptives under federal law includes all over-the-counter contraceptives approved, granted, or cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, even without a prescription. It would also require coverage of all FDA-approved prescription contraceptives, except that where therapeutically equivalent drugs exist, plans would need to cover only one of them. Retailers that stock non-prescription contraception could not interfere with a person's access to or purchase of it, or with access to medically accurate information about it, though they could refuse to provide it if the person cannot pay. The bill states it does not change FDA review processes and does not override federal or state laws that give consumers greater protections.

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Sponsors

• Ayanna Pressley Democrat sponsor
• 41 cosponsors