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After The Debate, How The Health Care Law Will Affect Florida Women

The new health care law's contraceptive mandate went into effect recently.

One of the most talked about parts of the Affordable Care Act was the bit that requires health insurance companies to cover all FDA approved forms of birth control.

But it wasn't the only provision in the new law that specifically affects women.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke about about what will be changing for women under the healthcare law and how it will affect Floridians in particular.

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