Affordability is Access Act of 2026

This bill would require federal agencies to clarify that health insurance plans must cover all over-the-counter birth control approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), even if the person has no prescription, without cost-sharing. Plans would also have to cover all FDA-approved prescription birth control, but where equivalent drugs exist, plans would only need to cover one of them. Stores that sell over-the-counter birth control could not interfere with a person's access to or purchase of it, or to accurate information about it. Stores could still refuse to provide the product if the person cannot pay for it.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Patty Murray Democrat sponsor
• 32 cosponsors