Based on an evaluation of responses to KFF's 2023 Employer Well being Advantages Survey, comparatively few (8%) giant firms (with 200 or extra staff) that supply well being advantages report lowering or increasing abortion protection for the reason that U.S. Supreme Court docket has overturned abortion remedy. Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs vs. Jackson pronunciation.

Since Dobbs3% of those main firms have decreased or eradicated abortion protection the place it’s authorized. In the meantime, 12% of enormous firms whose largest plans embody abortion beneath most or all circumstances added or expanded abortion protection after the ruling.

A 3rd (32%) of main well being profit firms cowl abortion in most or all circumstances of their largest well being care plan, whereas practically as many (28%) cowl it in restricted circumstances or by no means.

The survey additionally revealed a common lack of information about abortion protection amongst respondents at main firms that present well being advantages. Forty p.c stated they didn't know if their largest plan consists of abortion. A doable motive for this might be that details about abortion protection in plan paperwork is restricted until abortion is explicitly excluded. As well as, survey respondents are typically HR or advantages managers, though they’re usually not authorized specialists.

With abortion banned or severely restricted in some states, folks dwelling in these states should now additionally bear the prices related to touring to states the place abortion is authorized. Seven p.c of enormous employers that supply well being advantages say they supply, or plan to supply, monetary help for journey bills to staff who should journey out of state to acquire a authorized abortion. Very giant employers (with 5,000 or extra staff) are the most probably to supply or plan to supply such journey reimbursements (19%).

Reflecting the politics surrounding abortion coverage, higher numbers of main well being profit firms headquartered within the Northeast (56%) and the West (44%) – the place few states ban abortion – provide abortion protection of their largest well being care plan in probably the most or all circumstances. This discovering contrasts sharply with these of enormous firms within the Midwest (20%) and South (18%). Relatedly, a small share of enormous well being advantages firms headquartered within the Northeast (2%) and West (4%) don’t cowl abortion beneath any circumstances, in comparison with barely bigger shares within the Midwest ( 14%) and South (15%).