Kim Reynolds' wide-ranging GOP health care bill for Iowa explained in 60 seconds

There's a lot to unpack in Gov. Kim Reynolds' wide-ranging health care bill, including several items she highlighted in her Condition of the State address last month.

The 44 pages of House Study Bill 91 would:

• Provide $2 million to pregnancy resource centers that counsel against abortion, and add programming for fathers.
• Allow Iowans to receive prescription-free birth control from a pharmacy.
• Limit the amount of money Iowans could receive through a medical malpractice lawsuit.
• Shore up rural health care with a new rural emergency hospital designation and new OB-GYN fellowships.
• Offer paid parental leave for Iowa state employees.

Some of those ideas had broad support at a legislative subcommittee Wednesday, but others were controversial.

Planned Parenthood opposes the funding for pregnancy resource centers, saying they mislead women about their options.

And some anti-abortion groups oppose expanding birth control access — an interesting wrinkle that's helped keep Reynolds' previous attempts on the issue from succeeding.

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Some of the ideas in the bill, like the medical malpractice limits, are already moving as separate pieces of legislation, and Republicans said Wednesday they intend to break up Reynolds' bill to consider the ideas individually.

You can learn a great deal more about the specifics of the bill in this subscriber story from the Register. And be sure to keep up with our continuing coverage as we follow the bill through the Legislature.

Thoughts or questions about the bill? Email sgrubermil@registermedia.com.

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