Health Affairs Blog: The Myth Of The Abortion Insurance Rider

Authors: Laurie Sobel, Caroline Rosenzweig, and Alina Salganicoff
Published: Jul 12, 2018

In a Health Affairs blog post, Laurie Sobel, Caroline Rosenzweig and Alina Salganicoff of the Kaiser Family Foundation discuss the feasibility of abortion riders to private group and individual health plans as a means of providing access to abortion coverage when states ban the coverage as part of an insurance plan. They summarize their 2018 analysis that these amendments are virtually non-existent.