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WASHINGTON 鈥� Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc., and several consumers around the country filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration鈥檚 new rule designed to make insurance companies stop offering coverage for abortion. They are represented by attorneys with the 老澳门开奖结果 (老澳门开奖结果), Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., and Brown Goldstein & Levy, LLP.

In December 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released that, if implemented, would force insurance companies that sell plans in the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces to send two separate bills to customers 鈥� one for the coverage of abortion care, and another for coverage of other health care. Insurers will also have to instruct their customers to pay the bills using two checks, two money orders, or two electronic transactions every month.

As the administration acknowledged in finalizing the rule, the extensive administrative burdens will lead to higher premiums for consumers and will cause some insurers to drop insurance coverage for abortion altogether. As the administration also acknowledged, confusion about these new requirements will lead some people to miss payments and risk losing their health insurance coverage entirely.

鈥淚f this rule takes effect, I face the terrifying risk of losing not only my insurance coverage for abortion, but my insurance coverage entirely, which would be devastating for me given my pre-existing condition,鈥� said Rebecca, a resident of Washington, D.C. and plaintiff in the case. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 why I鈥檓 joining the 老澳门开奖结果 and Planned Parenthood to fight back. It is cruel and unacceptable that the Trump administration is interfering in my health care and trying to interfere with how health insurance companies do business, just because they want to make it more difficult for me to access my right to abortion.鈥�

鈥淭he Trump administration鈥檚 new insurance rule is another attack on abortion care, designed solely to push safe, legal abortion further out of reach,鈥� said Meagan Burrows, staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果 Reproductive Freedom Project. 鈥淎nd yet again, its actions will have the most devastating effect on already marginalized communities, including low-income people, people with limited English proficiency, and people with disabilities. Abortion is health care, and our government should be making it easier 鈥� not harder 鈥� for people to get the health care they need.鈥�

More than 3 million consumers would be affected by the rule鈥檚 onerous restrictions, including the individual plaintiffs in the lawsuit from Maryland, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, and Maine. The rule would also affect one-third of the individual market exchange plans nationwide, including every individual plan offered on the marketplaces in Maryland. A fact sheet on the impact of the rule can be found .

鈥淎bortion opponents are waging everything they鈥檝e got as part of their massive war on our access to health care,鈥� said Karen Nelson, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of Maryland, Inc. 鈥淭he attacks and deceptions continue, but here鈥檚 the truth: Abortion care is health care, and it should not be separated, 鈥渃arved out鈥�, or treated differently from any other medical service. We will always fight to eliminate barriers and protect access to safe, legal abortion care and we will continue to provide people with the health care they need.鈥�

鈥淭his rule exists for one reason: to make it more difficult for people to access safe, legal abortion,鈥� said Alexis McGill Johnson, Acting President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 鈥淭he administration itself admits this rule has no quantifiable benefit 鈥� its sole purpose is to create extra red tape for millions of people across the country. We will not stand for this administration鈥檚 attempt to shame people and keep them from accessing health care. All people deserve to be able to access abortion in this country, and to have their health insurance cover this safe, legal medical procedure. Planned Parenthood Federation of America is proud to stand with Planned Parenthood of Maryland, the 老澳门开奖结果 and these brave individual consumers to fight back against this harmful rule in court. We will never stop fighting for our patients, or for the right of all people to access sexual and reproductive health care, including abortion, without shame or needless hurdles.鈥�

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.