EACH Act of 2025

Key Points

• The bill would require every federal health program, including Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE, VA care, and the Indian Health Service, to cover abortion services, ending the decades-old federal funding ban known as the Hyde Amendment.
• It would repeal the ACA provision that currently lets states restrict or ban abortion coverage in health insurance marketplaces.
• The federal government would be barred from restricting state, local, or private insurance plans from covering abortion services.
• The bill covers a huge range of federally connected programs, from Medicaid and CHIP to veterans' benefits, immigration detention medical care, and federal employee health plans.
• The law would override other federal laws, including exempting itself from the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, to make sure the coverage requirement applies uniformly.
• The bill is sponsored entirely by Democratic lawmakers and referred to eight House committees, and remains in committee with no Republican support, making passage in the current Congress unlikely.