Under Obamacare, black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country”

Wordpress ^ | July 4, 2022 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[Brian Griffin]

Only one month and 15 days until I am seen by an oral surgeon to look how my ‘unrestorable’ wisdom tooth can be removed.

[Brian Griffin]

“Making birth control pills OTC means they would no longer be covered by insurance and women would have to pay for them on their own.”

https://birth-control.procon.org/

They could be made reimbursable.

“Among birth control methods, the Pill ranks seventh in effectiveness....”

Hormonal implants are about 61 times more effective.

[Brian Griffin]

And all this time I thought I was an unmarried white male.

[Soul of the South]

“Black women are underserved when it comes to birth control access. The Roe decision could make that worse.”

I thought every drug store, many food stores, and most big discount stores in this country sold condoms. Who knew black women and men weren’t able to buy them?

[Chode]

then norplant every last one of them at puberty...

[ealgeone]

They could just say no. Just sayin…..

[Organic Panic]

“have insurmountable odds trying to get someone else to pay for their healthcare,” is more like it,

[semimojo]

So the fact that these same black women “have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country” is a direct result of their own voting choices.

The author needs to show that their access was better before the ACA (doubtful) or that there was an alternative to the ACA that would have been better for them. Otherwise this article makes no sense.

[Albion Wilde]

“The hardest burden is going to largely fall on Black women who already have insurmountable challenges just getting health care in this country,” Jennifer Driver, senior director of reproductive rights for the State Innovation Exchange, a national resource and strategy center

White Guilt Specialist Jennifer Driver, MD, lives in New Orleans. Sounds like she has never driven through the poor white areas of her own state, of Appalachia, or many other remote, poor white parts of the nation.

Maybe her point of view is based on racism in her state. Here in Baltimore-DC, patients, doctors, nurses, and medtech staff are half POC