While eventually most American women will get their birth control covered …only women who bought or had a plan renewed on Aug. 1 will begin to have access to co-pay-free birth control. Insured women whose plans renew later will have to wait.
For those women who do have the benefit already, however, be forewarned: Not all birth control is covered…. All _kinds_ of birth control are covered—pills, rings, injections, IUDs, diaphragms, emergency contraception—but not all _brands_. Insurance companies have a lot of leeway within the regulation to refuse to cover certain brands. For brands that have a generic version, the company can choose to only offer the generic for free.
A point of clarification from Amanda Marcotte: