Yeah? The blowhard Ms. Fluke didn't say it cost all women on the pill $1,000. She said the pill without insurance "can cost" over $1,000 per year (over $3,000 in three years).
That's a true statement, not Bravo Sierra. It's carefully written to shock, but it's true, isn't it?
And because Ms. Fluke's presentation was about women who allegedly needed the pill for specific medical conditions, I don't know that generic birth control pills work for the conditions she named.
Isn't it true that birth control pills can cost over $1,000 per year without a prescription if you have to have specific ones for a medical condition?
That's why this activist was asked to speak to Congress. To bring up this statistical outlier situations and present them as a crisis.
The problem with this is that the insurance at Georgetown does cover birth control pills for PCOS. Ms. Fluke stated that the policy says it covers bc for PCOS. She said that her friend said the insurance company refused to cover the pills because the insurance company claimed the pills were desired for birth control rather than PCOS treatment. Fluke claimed the friend is a lesbian. Fluke claimed that the friend purchased the pills herself until she could no longer afford them and ended up with a ruptured ovarian cyst that caused the loss of an ovary. The friend may want to have children one day and her chances are now greatly reduced. Actually, PCOS patients already are at a disadvantage when it comes to having babies. Their hormones are all messed up. Statistically, even with two ovaries, PCOS patients are much less likely to carry a baby beyond the first trimester. The Pill is a treatment that helps regulate the out of whack hormones. An insurance company that denies a claim for a necessary medication had better have medical documentation to support the denial. If the lesbian friend were telling the truth, she should be suing the mess out of the insurance company. If the friend is lying, that is another matter altogether. Alas, we do not know who the friend of Ms. Fluck is, so we don’t know if she made the story up or not.
And let'[s remind the women that sexual transmission of disease is a bigger problem and you should be using condoms, too....but it's not about sex, or disease or the remote possibility of abstinence....it's about FREE!!!!!
She's clever....mixing medical conditions with "sex".
Something I noticed....the rhythm of Fluke's dissertation....sounds identical to Hillary's speech....I think as valedictorian perhaps....(I almost think Hillary wrote this for Sandra or perhaps its an old Hillary speech that was never "performed". What was in Hillarycare about this subject???