Free birth control is emerging standard for women

Newsday ^ | 7-4-2014

[Citizen Zed]

This week the Supreme Court allowed some employers with religious scruples to opt out, but most companies appear to be going in the opposite direction.

Recent data from the IMS Institute document a sharp change during 2013. The share of privately insured women who got their birth control pills without a copayment jumped to 56 percent, from 14 percent in 2012. The law's requirement that most health plans cover birth control as prevention, at no additional cost to women, took full effect in 2013.

The average annual saving for women was $269. "It's a big number," said institute director Michael Kleinrock.

The core of Obama's law — taxpayer-subsidized coverage for the uninsured — benefits a relatively small share of Americans. But free preventive care— from flu shots to colonoscopies —is a dividend of sorts for the majority with employer coverage.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, yes, exactly. Even some crypto-Sangerite FReepers would support that. It’s not just liberals, eco-fascists and Chinese Communists anymore.

[trebb]

for what it’s worth, my company health plan doesn’t cover male sexual drugs such as Viagra.

Then we need to get Viagra reclassified as a "Female experience enhancement" drug...

[heye2monn]

In other, unrelated news, the death rate of whites now exceeds their birth rate.