US orders Health Insurance to Cover Birth Control for Women

Touché my friend. Very good point.

 

I can't believe anyone would suggest that Plan B be used in any sort of regular fashion. The women I know who have resorted to using it swore they *never* wanted to *ever* go through using it again. It was a very harsh process. It's not a headache pill.

Thinking about it, it might not be a bad idea to encourage the use of Plan B. If anything it will encourage the use of proper contraception.
/removes tongue from cheek

 

Excuse the salty language, but I say it's about fucking time. The fact that erectile dysfunction medications have been covered by insurance for years while birth control hasn't is inexcusable, yet it speaks volumes about, well, everything.

 

This bit by Colbert about this issue is just fantastic: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-co...93824/august-03-2011/women-s-health-nazi-plan

 

It's very funny, Baraka. I wish it was on youtube so you could watch it.

 

This is exciting. 18-24 year old women are usually too poor to afford it, and condoms are really annoying.

 

So, kid screaming every two hours in the dead of night because he/she/it shit itself ... that you can handle then?

 

shouldn't condoms be covered before birth control? there are far more problems that could be cured by people using condoms instead of birth control, and i don't agree that viagra should be covered either.

 

Being a woman should not be a pre-existing medical condition, as much as it would please those on the right to continue with existing double standards and discrimination in health care.

 

i was just making the comment that condoms prevent pregnancy and disease while birth control just controls pregnancy, and thus from a healthcare standpoint it would make more sense to supply the former as opposed to birth control pills.

what is this being a woman is a pre existing condition nonsense anyway?

i feel sorry for someone who feels somehow oppressed because the government won't provide their birth control. it's a rough world out there and if this gets you worked up i can't imagine how hard everyday life is.

 

Gender rating (charging women more for the same policy as men or charging a healthy woman of child bearing age more than an overweight male smoker of the same age) is hardly nonsense. It is a common practice that is prohibited under the ACA.

And this not about the government providing birth control, but having birth control covered by private insurance that women pay for in the form of premiums (but w/o an additional co-pay).

 

ahh yes no one should be able to tell a woman what to do with 'her' body, keep the government out of the bedroom etc. but oh yeah we want to force you to pay for birth control. the argument doesn't work for me, and no i dont think we should be paying for boner pills either.

also, it is about government providing birth control. when the government 1: forces everyone to carry insurance, and 2: forces insurance companies to cover certain things then that's government run healthcare right there. the insurance agencies might as well be a branch under the department of health or something because that's their role. this is what liberals call 'free market' and conservatives fall into the trap of defending this crony capitalism.

 

Right. "Free market" gender rating discrimination is much better public policy....with women, in some cases, paying $1,200/yr more than a man for the same policy.



And lets just ignore the distinctions and implications between a woman's choice for the best birth control option that medically suits her as opposed to a man sliding latex over an external body part.

 

is it really discrimination or is it that this class of people simply cost more to insure like smokers, drinkers, people with diabetus etc?

i remember paying more for motorcycle insurance because i was young. is that really age discrimination or is it that young people tend to drive like idiots on motorcycles thus costing more as a class to ensure?

i fail to see this discrimination