RU-486 cover to depend on employers.(Brief Article)

For many employers, the decision to offer coverage of the new abortion pill in their benefit plans is likely to mirror the way they currently handle surgical abortions. Most health insurers already have said they will cover the pill, known as RU-486, which the Food and Drug Administration recently approved. Benefit experts expect that employers will base their decisions to cover RU-486 on whether their plans currently cover surgical abortions, since both procedures cost about the same. ``Some clients have decided to cover elective (surgical) abortion, and it would follow that we would recommend to them that they cover RU-486. It's a less invasive way to basically get the same …