Free birth control under health care?

Politico ^ | June 1, 2010 | Sarah Kliff

[C19fan]

As health reform regulations begin to take shape, Planned Parenthood has begun a quiet campaign to ensure that birth control is counted among the free preventive services that health insurers must cover under the Affordable Care Act.

Birth control barely came up in the health care reform debate, brushed aside by the more heated debate over abortion language and coverage. But with numerous religious groups opposed to contraceptive use, this issue is all but certain to become a flash point as implementation moves forward.

“We see this as a tremendous opportunity to get no-cost birth control in the bill and ensure that this part of women’s health is covered under preventive health,” said Laurie Rubiner, Planned Parenthood’s vice president of public policy.

[C19fan]

All too predictable. Would free trips to a spa be considered "preventive care"? The Euros do that.

[RC2]

To bad it wasn’t available in HI in about 1960.

[poobear]

I don't know about free birth control, but there will be panels to determine who should even be considering having a child in the first place and definitely those who are considering a second child.

Can you say C.H.I.N.A.?

[socialismisinsidious]

Yup. obama’s gonna keep the birth control right next to the obama money, the obama stash. That’s why they voted for him.