IRP Discussion Paper No. 1421-14 Mandating Prescription Contraception Coverage: Effects on Contraception Consumption and Preventive Health Services

their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. We also thank Melissa Kearney for sharing her data on Medicaid waivers. A portion of this research was carried out at a U.S. Census Bureau Research Data Center facility in Ithaca, NY. We thank Warren Brown and Evan Buntrock at the NYCRDC and Nataliya Kravets at NCHS for their help with these confidential data. These results have been screened by the National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS) to avoid revealing confidential data. The results and conclusions of the paper are those of the author(s) and do not indicate concurrence by the Census Bureau or NCHS. IRP Publications (discussion papers, special reports, Fast Focus, and the newsletter Focus) are availabl