The Affordable Care Act has resulted in many fundamental changes to the way American employers do insurance. One of the first to be noticed is in regard to birth control.

Formerly, most US employers only marginally covered certain forms of birth control, like the pill. But today, such insurance policies are required to cover all FDA-approved forms of birth control, without passing on a higher copay to employees.

This has had some big results for women around the country. The average woman surveyed now saves $255 per year on birth control. Perhaps more remarkably, better access to front-line contraceptives has resulted in a 90% drop in emergency contraception usage, like the "morning after pill."

Results like these will clearly have implications for the national birth rate and other factors. But for now, advocates for workplace-sponsored family planning are happy.

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