
Testimony: Restricting Youth Access to Nicotine and Tobacco Products
Delivered to Philadelphia City Council
Policy
In January 2025, LDI Senior Fellows Alice Abernathy, MD, MSHP, and Abigail Wilpers, PhD, WHNP-BC, co-chairs of the Maternal and Reproductive Health Working Group, submitted a public comment in response to a Proposed Rule from the U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services. The proposed rule would require insurance coverage of over-the-counter (OTC) preventative items and services without a prescription by a health care provider. This comment builds on a previous comment submitted by the LDI Maternal and Reproductive Health Working Group on the same topic.
On January 15, 2025, the Proposed Rule was withdrawn.
Delivered to Philadelphia City Council
Presented to Staff of U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Submitted to the U.S. Committee on Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health
Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Health and Human Services
Presented to Staff from the Office of U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal
Presented to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren