Posted on 07/04/2014 2:31:09 PM PDT by 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.
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You got it right. Nothing is free. Somebody pays.
“The average annual saving for women was $269. “It’s a big number,” said institute director Michael Kleinrock.”
I was under the impression that the pill cost about $10 a month without insurance. How does that work out to $269 per year?
Free? Uh, no. Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it.
Nothing is free.
I think health insurance is a priviledge that a company will provide....they can make what ever policies they choose as far as I'm concerned, but don't irk the females off by allowing viagra, etc and not allowing birth control....
E D medications are used to treat a condition where something is not functioning normally. On the other hand, contraceptives are used to interfere with the normal functioning of the body.
I agree with you. ED meds are not any more necessary than birth control. either both are considered, or neither.
and there are plenty of people who should have birth control pumped into their water supply.
Uh, nope.
” The average annual saving for women was $269. “It’s a big number,” said institute director Michael Kleinrock.”
Another retard who flunked econ 101. Who does he think is paying the $269? Oh, the corporations. Where are the corporations getting their money?
TANSTAFBC
In memory of Heinlein
Not mentioned: The average annual additional cost for insurance that covers birth control with no copayment.
Once the government can get its anti-child policy in place, believe me, nobody on FR is going to be allowed to have children.
Behind the birth control agenda is a population control agenda, and behind the population control agenda is a total control agenda.
But all these fools just think the government is paying for their free sex.
It's like sex-"reassignment" surgery. It has nothing to do with the real purpose of medicine, which is to heal people, not to maim them.
Like P.J. O’Rourke said (tagline)
If they do that, they have an incompetent doctor who won't take the time or is too ignorant to look into the etiology of the underlying problem. Masking symptoms means you don't find out about the tumor or the PCOS or the endocrine disruption until you're very seriously messed up.
It’s probably occurred to you that they got pregnant because they wanted to. In such case, contraceptives are not the solution.
Mandatory BC, I think, is what Livius was warning about.
We get further and further away from taking responsibility for one’s actions.
How do you figure?
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