https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/mm-u-ebc110520.php
News Release 6-Nov-2020
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Nearly half of pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, and there's a wide gap between the most affluent women who are likely to have access to the most reliable forms of birth control and those from lower income households.
But removing out-of-pocket costs for contraception may help reduce the income-related disparities that play such a significant role in unintended pregnancies, a new Michigan Medicine-led study suggests.
The Affordable Care Act's elimination of cost-sharing for birth control was associated with more consistent contraceptive use and a decrease in birth rates among all income groups, according to the research in JAMA Network Open.
But the most prominent decline was seen among people from the lowest income group, which saw a 22 % drop in births from before and after the law's implementation.
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