Success Stories

When workers ask for contraceptive coverage and provide employers with the facts, some companies do improve their health benefits.

Here are some recent success stories-

Two secretaries in a major law firm questioned the Personnel Director about the lack of contraceptive coverage in one of the firm's major health plans. As a result, management soon learned how inexpensive it was to add contraceptive coverage. When renewal time came around, the employer pressed for and got full contraception coverage!

An employee of a small northwest city got the facts and figures on the high cost of unintended pregnancy. She presented it to the board that administers city workers' health benefits. Her union rep was supportive and went into the meeting with her. The board listened, asked questions and voted to approve the request. The city now offers birth control benefits to its employees.

One woman, who works for an established food services company, contacted us in the spring about the exclusion of contraceptive benefits in the company's only health insurance plan. With a brief letter in hand, along with a few statistics to back her up, she spoke with the company's vice president. The VP not only agreed that such coverage made sense, but he was also puzzled as to why it was not covered already. He told her that the policies would probably change when the company revised its medical plan at the end of the year. And that's exactly what happened. The new insurance plan, effective at the beginning of the year, covers birth control.

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