HHS re-writes Obamacare rules: Orders free birth control for all

Washington Times ^ | 5/11/15 | Tom Howell Jr.

[Nachum]

The Obama administration on Monday ordered all insurers to provide IUDs, the contraceptive patch and other birth control free of out-of-pocket charge to all women, rewriting the rules after reports that some insurance carriers were refusing to cover all types of contraceptives. Insurers must cover at least one brand of contraception in each of 18 different methods outlined by the Food and Drug Administration, such as oral contraceptive pills, the emergency contraceptive morning-after pill and intrauterine devices. Insurers can in some cases still impose costs to prod women to use generics rather than brand-name drugs, under the new guidance — but if

[RicocheT]

Nothing but your mother’s love is free. Telling the health insurers to provide a service or product without a charge to the recipient means some other person under the health plan gets less or, the company or government providing the health plan pays more.

[lowbridge]

Bump

[driftdiver]

We’re lucky they don’t just euthanize us men.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

[Scrambler Bob]

Euthanize the men = the ultimate birth control

[KosmicKitty]

[grobdriver]

In this case, HHS is telling insurers that they have to provide free birth control, even if the employer is not paying for it in their plan...

Ah.... thanks.

Next step, then, is to order insurance companies to pay for everything for everyone.

Where does the money come from? "THE GOVERNMENT!"